Filippo Carnovalini received both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Computer Science at the University of Padova. While completing his academic studies he also attended Padova’s Conservatory of Music, completing the base course in Mandolin. After the degrees, he joined the Brain, Mind and Computer Science PhD program of the University of Padova in 2018, under the supervision of Prof. Antonio Rodà, and started researching Computational Creativity and algorithms for the generation of music, and obtained the title of Dottore di Ricerca (PhD) in 2022.
During his studies, he started collaborating with Prof. Geraint Wiggins and Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) to consider cognition-aware approaches in his research. After continuing to collaborate with the university of Padova as a postdoc research assistant, he won a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship to start project CALIOPE at VUB, under the supervision of prof. Wiggins.