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Data science, public policy and applied AI

Nicola Scognamiglio

I build analytical systems for institutional questions: regulatory reporting, public data, legal text analysis and AI workflows that need to be useful, explainable and operational.

Frankfurt am MainData analystStatistics for Decisions
ECB logoIncoming Data Scientist, HR People Analytics
EIOPA logoEuropean supervisory authority
ISTAT logoOfficial statistics and public research
Federico II logoStatistics, political science, AI in finance
TU Dortmund logoExchange semester in statistics and data science
KAS logoMerit-based scholarship programme

Experience

Institutional work, technical depth.

European Central Bank logoUpcoming

Incoming Data Scientist - HR People Analytics

European Central Bank

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Upcoming data science role in the HR department's People Analytics team, focused on turning workforce data into analytical products for better organizational decisions.

  • People analytics work at the intersection of data science, human resources and institutional decision-making.
  • Expected focus on data products, metrics, reporting and evidence-based insights for HR stakeholders.
  • Continuation of my path in European institutions, applied analytics and responsible use of data.
EIOPA logoMay 2025 - May 2026

Trainee - Data Analyst

EIOPA

Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Worked in a European regulatory environment on risk analysis, supervisory reporting, data quality and AI-supported workflows for financial supervision.

  • Contributed to the 2025 IORP Stress Test, developing analytical tools for reconciliation, reporting and portfolio impact analysis.
  • Built and monitored risk indicators through automated dashboards in Power BI and R, tracking market developments and exposures.
  • Prepared recurring monitoring outputs, tables, charts and summary views for internal stakeholders with emphasis on clarity and consistency.
  • Performed completeness checks, reconciliations and cross-validation on reporting inputs to improve data quality and traceability.
  • Implemented a Retrieval-Augmented Generation model with Azure AI and Python for regulatory text analysis, supporting calibration and validation.
  • Documented reporting logic and analytical workflows to support version control, continuity and handover of deliverables.
ISTAT logoMar. 2025 - May 2025

Intern - Research Support

ISTAT

Naples, Italy

Exploratory research on natural language processing for legal texts inside Italy's national statistical institute.

  • Tested NLP approaches for automatic analysis and classification of legal texts.
  • Supported experimentation on unstructured text data, from preprocessing to interpretation of analytical outputs.
  • Produced structured summaries of findings for research activities and audiences with different technical backgrounds.

Education

Statistics with a policy backbone.

Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II logoOct. 2023 - Jul. 2026

Master's Degree in Statistics for Decisions

Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Naples, Italy

A quantitative programme focused on modelling, decision support and applied AI for complex policy and organizational environments.

Thesis: AI for Legal Question and Answering for a Financial Supervision Authority.

Focus: Applied statistical modelling, mathematical methods for statistics, network science, economic statistics and statistical methods for evaluation.

Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II logoOct. 2020 - Oct. 2023

Bachelor's Degree in Political Sciences

Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Naples, Italy

A political science foundation that still shapes the way I approach data: not only as a technical object, but as something with institutional consequences.

Thesis: Meta and the exploitation of data: an explorative analysis of origins, processes and consequences.

Focus: Political economy, European Union law, statistics, economic policy and the institutional implications of digital platforms.

Other stuff

Signals beyond the transcript.

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung logoScholarship

Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Awarded a merit-based scholarship recognizing academic work that connects data, technology and public policy.

Technische Universitat Dortmund logoExchange

Technische Universitat Dortmund

Exchange semester focused on statistical machine learning, big data analysis and Bayesian data analysis.

Methods for Fintech and AI in Finance logoProgramme

Methods for Fintech and AI in Finance

Intensive programme on financial technologies, AI applications in finance and the impact of innovative tools.

PythonRSQLPower BIAzure AINLPRAGMachine learningStatistical modellingData qualityRegulatory reportingPolicy analysis

Projects

Public work, open repos.

Four GitHub projects, from a thesis-scale Azure RAG system to statistical modelling, network science and legal text mining.