Lorenzo Baraldi – Ph.D. Candidate in Artificial Intelligence
Hi! I’m Lorenzo Baraldi, a Ph.D. candidate in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Pisa. I specialize in deepfake detection, diffusion models, and recently Multimodal Large Language Models. I’m passionate about research that bridges large-scale deep learning systems with real-world applications, especially in areas like deepfake detection, vision-language models, and efficient generative inference.
Previously, I was a research intern at the Huawei European Research Center in Munich, where I worked with video diffusion models and world models. My research has been published in leading venues such as ICCV, ECCV, ACL, and ACMMM, and I actively contribute to European AI initiatives like ELSA.
🔍 Research Interests
- Generative AI (Diffusion Models, LLMs)
- Vision Transformers & Self-supervised Learning
- Video/Image Generation and Evaluation
- Deepfake Detection and Robustness
🧪 Featured Projects
ELSA Benchmark Challenge
I lead the design and deployment of an international deepfake detection benchmark as part of the European Lighthouse on Secure and Safe AI.
👉 Try it here3D Digital Twin Reconstruction
A POC pipeline for reconstructing vehicles from monocular 2D images, developed with Prometeia and DAT S.r.l.
💼 Experience
Research Intern
Huawei European Research Center, Munich, Germany
Dates: Nov. 2024 - May 2025PhD Student
University of Pisa, Italy
2022 – Present
Research in Artificial Intelligence, focusing on deepfake detection, diffusion models, and multimodal large language models. —