Incoming Data Scientist, HR People AnalyticsData 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.
Incoming Data Scientist, HR People Analytics
European supervisory authority
Official statistics and public research
Exchange semester in statistics and data scienceExperience
Institutional work, technical depth.
UpcomingIncoming Data Scientist - HR People Analytics
European Central Bank
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.
May 2025 - May 2026Trainee - Data Analyst
EIOPA
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.
Mar. 2025 - May 2025Intern - Research Support
ISTAT
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.
Master's Degree in Statistics for Decisions
Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
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.
Bachelor's Degree in Political Sciences
Universita degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
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
Awarded a merit-based scholarship recognizing academic work that connects data, technology and public policy.
ExchangeTechnische Universitat Dortmund
Exchange semester focused on statistical machine learning, big data analysis and Bayesian data analysis.
Methods for Fintech and AI in Finance
Intensive programme on financial technologies, AI applications in finance and the impact of innovative tools.
Projects
Public work, open repos.
Four GitHub projects, from a thesis-scale Azure RAG system to statistical modelling, network science and legal text mining.
Azure RAG Pipeline
Thesis project and largest repo: an end-to-end Azure-native Retrieval Augmented Generation pipeline for document ingestion, search indexing, embeddings and grounded chat.
Python, Azure OpenAI, Azure AI Search, Blob StorageNetwork Science Project
Applied network analysis project developed during the statistics master's track, focused on modelling relationships and structure in connected data.
R, network science, statistical analysisEarly School Leaving in the EU
Quantitative analysis of early school leaving in EU regions, combining demographic, socio-economic and educational indicators with reproducible reporting.
R, Quarto, Eurostat, spatial/statistical modellingItalian War of Independence Legal Texts
Text mining workflow on Italian laws from 1866, using preprocessing, lemmatization, LDA, seeded LDA and correspondence analysis.
R, quanteda, TreeTagger, topic modelling