Superhero Valley — Mentee
Remote · Italy
Six-month mentorship program for Italian engineering students. One-to-one sessions with senior engineers and product leaders on engineering practice and career direction.
Superhero ValleyTommaso Vaccari
Computer engineering student at Politecnico di Milano. I work mostly on algorithms, machine learning, and unpacking complex systems through code, notes, and small experiments.
Blog
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From Self-Attention to a Small GPT
22 Jun 2026 / 23 min
A personal from-scratch derivation of causal self-attention, starting from a character language model and ending with the core pieces of a small GPT.
Neural Networks / Deep Learning / Transformers / Attention / Python
Neural Network Training: Statistics, Initialization and Diagnostics
21 Apr 2026 / 55 min
A structured study of neural network training dynamics, covering statistical preliminaries, loss interpretation, saturation, gradient flow, initialization schemes, diagnostic tools, and stabilization mechanisms.
Neural Networks / Deep Learning / Optimization / Initialization / Batch Normalization
Projects
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Seq2Seq Models for Symbolic Expression Recovery from Taylor Series
15 Mar 2025
LSTM encoder–decoder trained with a domain-specific loss to recover closed-form symbolic expressions from truncated Taylor series.
Python / PyTorch / SymPy / NumPy
MovHex
25 Jul 2025
Dynamic hex-grid routing engine in C with mutable costs, directed air routes, shortest-path queries, and performance-driven optimization.
C / Graph Algorithms / Data Structures / Dijkstra / Hex Grids
From Bigrams to Neural Networks: Italian Name Generator
10 Jul 2024
From count-based bigrams to a small neural net in PyTorch that generates Italian names.
Python / PyTorch / NumPy / Matplotlib
Journey
Where I've Learned
The academic and technical environments that shaped how I work.
Top Freshman Award
Politecnico di Milano
Recognized as one of the top Engineering & Computer Science freshmen for academic excellence.
Politecnico di Milano
Milan, Italy
BSc in Engineering & Computer Science (expected 2026) with focus on mathematical modelling, and software engineering.
Liceo Scientifico
Ferrara, Italy
Scientific high school diploma completed with final grade 100/100, combining mathematics, physics, and computer science foundations.