Visual Information Processing and Protection Group
Lorenzo Nigi is a Master's student in Artificial Intelligence and Automation Engineering at the University of Siena, currently conducting his Master's thesis research within the Visual Information Processing and Protection (VIPP) Group, under the supervision of Prof. Mauro Barni. He has always pursued a strong multidisciplinary foundation: after graduating with a score of 100/100 from Liceo Classico A. Volta in Colle di Val d'Elsa, he earned his Bachelor's degree cum laude in Information Engineering from the University of Siena in 2024. His Bachelor's thesis, completed in collaboration with Toscana Life Sciences, under the supervision of Prof. Monica Bianchini, was titled "Classificazione mediante reti neurali dei metaboliti presenti nelle piante antrachinoniche" ("Classification through neural networks of the metabolites found in anthraquinonic plants").
Currently, his Master's research focuses on adversarial machine learning and AI safety. Specifically, he is exploring how emotional representations in Vision-Language Models (VLMs) can be leveraged to compromise VLM-based safety classifiers. Recently, he was chosen as part of a small delegation of students to represent the University of Siena at the 2025 Young Envoys Scholarship (YES) summer program at Xi'an Jiaotong University.
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