Salvatore Lo Sardo

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Previously BSc in Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino (PoliTO), Italy.salvatore.losardo@ikmail.com · GitHub · LinkedInThis site requires JavaScript. A plain-text version for automated tools is available at /llms.txt.AboutPassionate engineer focused on Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, Agentic AI, RAG pipelines, and Robotics. Research experience at SmartData@Polito on economic sentiment analysis and real-estate asset management using LLMs. Robotics experience at PoliTOcean building ROS2 control systems for an underwater ROV. Vice Coordinator of IEEE-HKN Mu Nu Chapter (Corporate Training area).Achievements

1st place — ING Global Hackathon 2026 (Student Track)

1st place — BEST Hackathon 2024 (Reale Group)

2nd place — IBEC BEST Competition 2024 (Reply)

Selected — Prosus AI Hackathon 2025

Admitted — Intraprendenti Honours Program (PoliTO)

Publications

From Human to Scalable Annotation: Teaching LLMs to mimic experts labeling on Economic News Sentiment
DARLI-AP 2026, Tampere, Finland — March 2026
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Measuring economic sentiment in news articles
HiTEc & CoDES 2025, Limassol, Cyprus — June 2025

Selected Projects

Chill-Bill — Multimodal AI payment assistant (bunq Hackathon 2026). Claude + AWS Transcribe + bunq API. Python/Kotlin/FastAPI.

ESG Risk Assessment Platform — 1st place ING Hackathon 2026. LLM-based ESG data extraction from corporate PDFs. FastAPI + React.

NonnaOps — Autonomous restaurant OS (Prosus Hackathon 2026). Hybrid LLM + deterministic architecture. Python/Claude API.

Folio — Self-hosted document management with AI metadata suggestions. FastAPI + React + PostgreSQL.

Nereo ROV — Real-time control GUI for PoliTOcean's underwater vehicle. C++/ROS2/PyQt6.

Sported — AI sports matchmaker using geolocation clustering and multi-agent coordination (Prosus Hackathon 2025).

Safer Pretraining Reproduction — Academic reproduction of Microsoft's LLM safety dataset pipeline. Benchmarked on Common Crawl, C4, FineWeb.

SkillsLanguages: Python, C++, Java, Kotlin, TypeScript, JavaScript
AI/ML: PyTorch, Deep Learning, Computer Vision, RL, LLMs, RAG, Agentic AI
Tools: ROS2, Docker, FastAPI, React, LangChain, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Hugging Face
Spoken: Italian (native), English (IELTS 7.5)