Sunset over the Red Sea

Emanuele Ricco

PhD Candidate at KAUST, AI researcher and endlessly curious about technology.

KAUST Stoneprime US Quaternion Technology LUISS Guido Carli Politecnico di Torino Università di Salerno Euklid

About me.

Curiosity is my driving force, turning into travelling through places, and through ideas. Innovation is the second kind of travelling: going somewhere nobody has mapped yet and trying to describe what's actually there.

MISSION

To inspire people to use AI and emerging technology to create real impact in a world moving at lightning speed.

position
PhD Candidate in Computer Science, KAUST
focus
Trustworthy AI · Multi - Agent Systems · Small Language Models
based in
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
also
Co - Founder at Stoneprime US · Aspen Junior Fellow
Emanuele Ricco
experience

Where I've worked.

PhD Candidate in Computer Science
KAUST · Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Aug 2024 — now

Researching trustworthiness in AI: how small language models fail, and how multi-agent systems behave when they don't.

trustworthy AImulti-agent systemssmall language models
Co-Founder & LLM Data Scientist
Stoneprime US · Sacramento, USA
Oct 2023 — now

Lead the R&D team in collaboration with KAUST, and support the technical team through product development.

R&DLLM systemsproduct
Quantitative Researcher
Quaternion Technology · Rome, Italy
Jan 2022 — Jul 2024

Developed quantitative trading strategies drawn from theoretical physics, and supported investor relations with technical presentations and business strategy.

quant researchstatistical physicsstrategy
Assistant Lecturer
LUISS Guido Carli & LUISS Business School · Rome, Italy
Sep 2022 — Mar 2024

Taught machine learning models for algorithmic trading.

teachingmachine learning

And where I studied.

PhD, Computer Science
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology · Jeddah, SA
2024 — ongoing
MSc, Physics of Complex Systems
Politecnico di Torino · Turin, Italy
2018 — 2021

Machine learning, statistical physics, quantum mechanics and complexity theory. Master thesis as a research intern at Euklid Ltd (London, UK) in quantum finance.

BSc, Physics
Università degli Studi di Salerno · Salerno, Italy
2014 — 2018

Theoretical physics, quantum mechanics and condensed matter theory.

skills

What I work with.

Tuning models to be effective in real-world applications.

Language Models
Adaptation
Fine-tuningQuantizationDistillation
Small models
Small Language ModelsEvaluation & benchmarking
Agentic Pipelines
Orchestration
LangChainLangGraphAgent orchestration
Retrieval
RAG pipelinesVector databasesChroma
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Deep Neural NetworksRepresentation learning
Supervised & Unsupervised
Hidden Markov ModelsClusteringClassification
Engineering & Tools
Languages
PythonJuliaMATLAB
Frameworks & tools
PyTorchDockerAWSGit
publications

Selected work.

2026
conference
A Geometric Analysis of Small-sized Language Model Hallucinations
ICML 2026
E. Ricco, E. Onofri, L. Cima, S. Cresci, R. Di PietroarXiv →
2025
patent
Artificial Intelligence Aided Investment Analysis System for Biotechnology Regulatory Approvals
US Patent Application 19/175,755
E. Ricco, G. Casaburi, E. Pasquariello, A. Simeone, P. Mariotti, C. Brunipatent →

All publications →

writing

Things I write down.

Articles on AI, travel and innovation

travel

And where it takes me.

Curiosity is easier to explain in pictures. The full map lives on the places page.

places
—
countries, and counting

Everywhere I've lived, worked, or wandered.

drag to spin · tap a country below to fly there

visited here now
contact

Let's connect.

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