Francesco
Scarano.

IT Manager · AI Engineering · Research & Development

With a background in computer engineering and extensive experience in IT, I am IT Manager at CUOA Business School. I also work in research and development in generative artificial intelligence and machine learning.

IT ManagerCUOA Business School

15+Professional training programmes

20+AI solutions in development and production

One journey,
many perspectives.

My work brings together engineering, IT systems management and specialised training in artificial intelligence.

My role

IT Manager

CUOA Business School

Education

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering

    University education
  • Executive Master in ICT Management

    CUOA Business School
  • Master in AI Engineering

    ProfessionAI
  • Master in AI Solution Architecture

    ProfessionAI

Work
in progress.

Ongoing projects and research, from AI for education to knowledge-based assistants.

Follow my work on GitHub
AI & Education

AI Teaching LAB

Generating educational content and structured learning pathways through prompt-driven pipelines.

Data & Experimentation

Synthetic Dataset Generator

Generating synthetic datasets for experiments in business, financial and operational scenarios.

LLMs & Knowledge

Knowledge Assistant / RAG

AI assistant prototypes that connect language models to knowledge sources through information retrieval.

From ideas
to code.

A selection of projects published on GitHub.

All repositories

Reinforcement Learning · Cybersecurity

DeepGuard

Attack and defence simulations for healthcare networks, comparing SARSA and Double Deep Q-Network in the gym-idsgame environment.

  • SARSA
  • Double DQN
  • gym-idsgame
Repository
Computer Vision

VisionTech

Animal and vehicle recognition using convolutional neural networks. A pipeline covering training, evaluation and error analysis.

  • PyTorch
  • CNN
  • Streamlit
Repository
Computer Vision · Interpretability

Flower Recognition

Flower classification with transfer learning, CNN architecture comparisons, model calibration and Grad-CAM interpretability.

  • PyTorch
  • Transfer Learning
  • Grad-CAM
Repository
Computer Vision · Deep Learning

Food Image Classification

A pipeline for food image classification using PyTorch, transfer learning and modern convolutional architectures.

  • PyTorch
  • CNN
  • Transfer Learning
Repository
NLP · MLOps

Sentiment Analysis

A sentiment analysis pipeline covering training, evaluation, Docker deployment, CI workflows and monitoring reports.

  • NLP
  • Docker
  • CI & Monitoring
Repository

The tools,
behind the ideas.

AI & Data
Python · PyTorch · scikit-learn · pandas · SQL · LLM · RAG
Applications
FastAPI · Streamlit · React · PostgreSQL · MySQL
Systems & Platforms
VMware · Networking · CRM / ERP · Moodle · Qlik

The next project
starts with a conversation.

Let’s talk about IT, artificial intelligence and digital solutions.