Course
Fundamentals of AI
A comprehensive course covering the history of artificial intelligence, natural language processing, and large language models — from foundational concepts to current architectures.
About
Lorenzo Leucio Domenico Incardona
PhD in Semiotics · AI Consultant & Lecturer · Monza, Italy
For over a decade I’ve been bridging semiotics and technology — from the theoretical foundations of computational semiotics to hands-on work with knowledge graphs, data curation, and AI training. My career has moved across academic research, large-scale data projects, and, most recently, teaching.
I hold a PhD in Semiotics from the Università di Bologna and SUM - Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane. My dissertation on the relationships between semiotics and the semantic web won the “Enrico Manca Award” in 2013. I’ve been a Short-term Scholar at SUNY Buffalo and I collaborated with CINECA on NLP and sentiment analysis.
As a Contributor Lead (2015–2025), I coordinated international teams of up to 100 specialists on knowledge graph enrichment, AI training, and domain ontology projects. Today I lecture on AI fundamentals, prompt engineering, generative AI, and their ethical and legislative dimensions.
Education
2008–2012
PhD in Semiotics — Università di Bologna / SUM
2010
Short-term Scholar — SUNY Buffalo, New York
2004–2007
MA in Semiotics — Università di Bologna
2001–2005
BA in Ancient Literary Culture — Università di Bari
Technical skills
Python
Prolog
OWL
Knowledge Graphs
Semantic Web
NLP
Data Curation
Ontologies
Prompt Engineering