Emanuele Donno

Computer EngineerML/AI EngineerPhD StudentQuantum Computing & Quantum ML

Lecce, Italy emanuele.donno@gmail.com shtazzo.github.io linkedin.com/in/emanuele-donno github.com/Shtazzo 0009-0006-2126-4816

Professional Summary

Licensed Computer Engineer (Order of Engineers, Lecce – Sec. A, Sector C, since 06/2024) and PhD Student in Engineering of Complex Systems at Università del Salento, working on Quantum Computing and Quantum Machine Learning for Climate Science. About 18 months as Post-Degree Researcher at the Euro-Mediterranean Centre on Climate Change (CMCC), working on end-to-end ML/DL pipelines on multidimensional NetCDF climate datasets and on ML4Fires, the wildfire-forecasting thematic module of the EU InterTwin Digital Twin project, on HPC infrastructure. Full-stack engineering background from MSc projects and thesis work, covering Python, Java/Spring Boot REST, Angular/Ionic, Docker, Git and MPI/HPC. First author of a preprint on quantum data assimilation under review at FGCS; co-author of peer-reviewed and preprint contributions on Digital Twins and ML for extreme weather events.

Technical Skills

Languages

Python, Java, TypeScript, C, SQL, Shell/Bash, Matlab, LaTeX

AI & ML

PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, Scikit-Learn, Computer Vision, end-to-end ML pipelines, distributed training

LLM & GenAI (personal projects)

Ollama (local LLMs), Hugging Face, RAG, prompt engineering, LLM-assisted dev workflow (Claude Code, ChatGPT, Gemini)

Quantum (learning during PhD)

Qiskit, PennyLane, Quantum Computing, Quantum Machine Learning, Quantum Circuits, Quantum Data Assimilation

Backend & Infra

Spring Boot, REST APIs, Docker, Git, MPI/MPICH, HPC, Linux/Unix

Frontend

Angular, Ionic, TypeScript, HTML5/CSS, Firebase

Data & Storage

NumPy, Pandas, NetCDF, Xarray, Cartopy, MySQL, MongoDB, SQLite

Professional Experience

Education

Publications & Preprints

Full list and metrics: orcid.org/0009-0006-2126-4816

• interTwin: Advancing Scientific Digital Twins through AI, Federated Computing and Data.
  Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS) – The International Journal of eScience, 2026. Journal article.
  DOI: 10.1016/j.future.2025.108312 (WOS:001651938800001)
• From Classical to Quantum-Mechanical Data Assimilation: A Comparison between DATO and QMDA.
  E. Donno, G. Conti, P. Oddo, S. Gualdi, L. Mainetti, G. Aloisio.
  Submitted to Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Special Collection on Advances in Quantum Computing: Methods, Algorithms, and Systems. Vol. III (Under review)
  Preprint (arXiv), May 2026.   arXiv: 2605.04881
• Facilitating the development of Machine Learning-based Digital Twin applications for extreme weather events.
  D. Elia, E. Donno, M. Bunino, M. Fronza, D. Donno, G. Padovani, S. Fiore, A. Manzi.
  EGU General Assembly 2025 – Preprint, March 2025.
  DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu25-13888
• A Data Space environment for Big Data and ML-based Climate applications in the European Open Science Cloud.
  D. Elia, F. Antonio, S. Fiore, E. Donno, G. Accarino, P. Nassisi, G. Aloisio.
  EGU General Assembly 2024 – Preprint, January 2025.
  DOI: 10.5194/egusphere-egu24-17472

Selected Projects

• ML4Fires – InterTwin Digital Twin Engine
  Core ML/DL component of an Environmental Digital Twin for global wildfire propagation, integrated into the EU InterTwin platform; reproducible training pipeline distributed on HPC. github.com/CMCC-Foundation/ML4Fires
  • PyTorch
  • DeepLearning
  • DigitalTwin
  • Climate
  • HPC
  • Python
• Global Soil-Moisture Downscaling
  ML-based downscaling of satellite-derived soil-moisture products on the EASE 2.0 grid; pipelines for multidimensional Earth-observation datasets.
  • MachineLearning
  • DeepLearning
  • RemoteSensing
  • NetCDF
  • Xarray
  • Python
  • PyTorch
• Social Tech Platform – Full-Stack
  LinkedIn-style multi-user platform: Angular + Ionic frontend, Spring Boot REST backend, Firebase for push and bulk notifications; end-to-end ownership from architecture to deployment.
  • Angular
  • SpringBoot
  • Ionic
  • Firebase
  • TypeScript
  • REST
• Drupal CMS Plugin for Remote Learning
  Drupal content-management plugin backed by a Spring Boot service over a Materialized-Table relational schema; Angular web client; stored procedures for config/data exchange between backends.
  • Drupal
  • SpringBoot
  • MySQL
  • Angular
  • Java
• MAD – My Accessible Data
  Multi-user system for secure personal-data management using IOTA’s Masked Authenticated Messaging (MAM) protocol over the Tangle blockchain; Angular/Ionic frontend, Spring Boot REST backend.
  • Blockchain
  • IOTA
  • IoT
  • Java
  • Angular
• Parallel Fast Hartley Transform (FHT)
  Parallel design and implementation of the Fast Hartley Transform (FHT) in the one-dimensional case, using the message passing C library MPICH.
  • C
  • MPI
  • ParallelComputing
• COVID-19 Spread Modeling
  Polynomial and multivariate regression, and Kalman filtering applied to Covid-19 spread modeled with the SIR compartmental model.
  • Python
  • DataAnalysis
  • Scipy
  • Scikit-Learn

Certifications & Awards

• Samsung Innovation Camp – Diploma in Innovation & Technology, Business Strategy, Digital Marketing (Mar. 2019).
• IELTS Academic – English proficiency, Overall 6.0/9.0, CEFR B2 (Jul. 2019).
• ICIAP 2021 – 21st International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (May 2022).
• Professional Engineering License – Order of Engineers of Lecce (Sec. A, Sector C, N° 4507), since 25/06/2024.
• JUNIQ-EPIQ Summer School on Quantum Computing – Forschungszentrum Jülich; gate-based algorithms and quantum annealing (Sep. 2025).
• Quantum Machine Learning with Python & Qiskit – IBM SkillsBuild; building basic and advanced models, implementing algorithms, challenges and future prospects (May 2026).
• Introduction to FastAPI – DataCamp (Jun. 2026).
• Introduction to Power BI – DataCamp (Jun. 2026).
• Large Language Models (LLMs) Concepts – DataCamp (Jun. 2026).

Languages. Italian (native), English (CEFR B2 – IELTS Academic 6.0/9.0).