Ph.D in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science, Naples University, Italy. Title of Ph.D. thesis: Features extraction from speech: the acoustic attributes of vowels and stop consonants in Italian (in Italian). Massachusetts Institute of Technology, (MIT, Cambridge), visiting scientist in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences under the sponsorship of the Italian Ph.D. Fellowship (host professors: Kenneth Stevens and Michael Jordan). "Laurea" in Computer Science earned with the maximum score earned at Salerno University, Italy. Title of thesis: A study on the behavior and the learning process of deterministic neural networks: how to increase their storage capacity (in Italian).
				Professor of "Laboratory of Cybernetic" within the Laurea in Physics program at Salerno University, Departement of Theoretical Physics. Professor within the Master "Advanced Technologies for Information Processing and Communication" (sponsored by the Italian Government, M.U.R.S.T. D.M. n. 308 of July 3 1995) for the courses: Digital Signal Processing and Speech; Information Theory and Coding; Distributed Systems; Neural Networks. Supervisor of several Theses and Project works, in collaboration with persons from Italian and International Research Institutes, Italian Universities, and Italian and International Companies.