Hey, I'm Francesco
ML PhD Candidate @ UniTrento
Supervised by
Jacopo Staiano
and
Elisa Ricci.
- Who am I? 2nd-year PhD candidate at the University of Trento, Italy. Part of the Italian National PhD program (UniPisa), member of the MHUG lab, and collaborating with travelbrain.me on applied ML problems.
- Working on Multimodal LLMs. I like making models talk in {structured: ways}.
- Curious about DLMs, any-to-any models, and on-device AI. Watching from the sidelines for now.
- My background? MSc in AI Systems & Computer Vision.
- out-of-research Runner, gym enthusiast, video editing fan, and LTF member. Check out my YT channel airFranz!
Say
Reach me at
francesco.laiti [at] unitn.it ,
laitifranz.labs [at] gmail.com
or via LinkedIn.
Find me online on
GitHub
and X/Twitter.
News
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📍 Visit us @ CVPR Poster Session 5 - Poster 104.
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💻 Led the hands-on lab on Multimodal LLMs @ TLM Journal Club in Trento. Thx Daniele!
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📚 Tutoring Introduction to AI @ DEM, University of Trento (2nd Semester).
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⭐ MemCoach received a Highlight award at CVPR’26! See you in Denver 🏜️
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🎉 Our paper got accepted @ CVPR 2026! Project page: laitifranz.github.io/MemCoach
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⏳ Submitted our work to CVPR 2026, fingers crossed!
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📚 Tutoring Introduction to AI @ DEM, University of Trento (1st Semester).
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🎉 Honored to have been selected as a mentee (acceptance rate below 15%) to join the LeadTheFuture community!
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💭 Introducing QuietRoom - your thoughts, your device, period - for the Google Gemma 3n Impact Challenge. Live demo · tech brief · submission
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🤗 Earned certifications from HF Agent Course & HF MCP Course!