I am a dynamic AI engineer with 3 years of experience in artificial intelligence frameworks and data engineering. I specialize in developing systems for public administration projects, achieving structured AI development and guiding implementations with stakeholder feedback. I design structured data catalogs, optimize datasets for governance platforms, and model and simulate complex tourism systems to support policy decisions. I collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to translate high-level ethics into concrete code and continuously validate outcomes with stakeholders. I enjoy applying advanced AI techniques to real-world problems across different domains and thrive in collaborative environments, turning research insights into robust, deployable solutions that drive efficiency and impact.

Albana Celepija

I am a dynamic AI engineer with 3 years of experience in artificial intelligence frameworks and data engineering. I specialize in developing systems for public administration projects, achieving structured AI development and guiding implementations with stakeholder feedback. I design structured data catalogs, optimize datasets for governance platforms, and model and simulate complex tourism systems to support policy decisions. I collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to translate high-level ethics into concrete code and continuously validate outcomes with stakeholders. I enjoy applying advanced AI techniques to real-world problems across different domains and thrive in collaborative environments, turning research insights into robust, deployable solutions that drive efficiency and impact.

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I am a dynamic AI engineer with 3 years of experience in artificial intelligence frameworks and data engineering. I specialize in developing systems for public administration projects, achieving structured AI development and guiding implementations with stakeholder feedback. I design structured data catalogs, optimize datasets for governance platforms, and model and simulate complex tourism systems to support policy decisions. I collaborate with cross-disciplinary teams to translate high-level ethics into concrete code and continuously validate outcomes with stakeholders.

I enjoy applying advanced AI techniques to real-world problems across different domains and thrive in collaborative environments, turning research insights into robust, deployable solutions that drive efficiency and impact.

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Language

Albanian
Fluent
English
Advanced
Italian
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Work Experience

PhD Student at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK)
October 1, 2022 - November 7, 2025
Contributed to research and engineering activities of the project 'Artificial Intelligence for the Public Administration - AIXPA', collaborating with FBK, public sector institutions, and industrial partners. Co-designed the requirements of a structured AI development framework and its components, validating approaches through stakeholder feedback. Engineered a modular system with tourism-related subsystems to model carrying capacities of the overall tourism system. Created a structured data catalogue from heterogeneous datasets for a public-use case in collaboration with stakeholders and documented data lineage and governance considerations. Supported data collection, engineering, preparation, and integration into the AI governance platform, serving as the governance ecosystem for the selected AI use cases. Optimized datasets for downstream stages including analysis, feature engineering, and model development. Applied time-series analysis, detrending, and decomposition to identify tren
Senior Software Engineer at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) – Digital Society Centre
October 1, 2022 - October 1, 2022
Expanded the architecture of a cloud-based automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine for transcription services via REST API and WebSocket. Implemented containerised components and collaborated with the DevOps team to ensure reliable software delivery. Led the migration of the Ell e 3e-learning platform to Moodle in collaboration with territorial partners (TSM, PAT), enhancing training delivery for public servants. Performed system analyses to map entities and attributes between source and target platforms, applying data analysis, transformation, and integration techniques to ensure compatibility with the target data model. Collaborated with research units and industrial partners to design an ontology-based automated data migration system, enabling domain experts to define data and relationships through a high-level representation that decouples the system from heterogeneous data sources. Authored technical documentation detailing component configuration, functionality, implementation,
Software Development Engineer at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) – Co-Innovation Lab
October 1, 2020 - October 1, 2020
Developed, maintained, and enhanced components for digital platforms focused on data management. Designed tools to expose data through standard protocols, ensuring system integration aligned with best practices for openness and interoperability. Integrated platform components using APIs (e.g., Grafana, Apache NiFi) to enable automated provisioning. Developed software solutions to integrate ANPR data, including scheduled data transformation and mapping processes to ensure compliance with required formats and protocols. Designed and developed an adapter for seamless synchronization between internal citizen records and the national registry, improving data consistency and interoperability. Authored technical documentation detailing component configuration, functionality, implementation, and interactions.
Senior Software Developer at AT Consulting SHPK
August 1, 2017 - August 1, 2017
Developed robust software implementations and APIs to automate business processes. Engaged in the full software development life cycle, including requirements analysis, implementation, testing, and deployment in test and production environments. Implemented new extensions and enhanced existing functionalities to meet customer needs and requirements. Served as technical manager for complex projects involving process automation and BPM tools. Supported clients in their digital transformation by implementing Case Management System within the overall platform. Implemented data visualization modules to analyze and interpret data across components. Extended workflow systems by integrating custom actions. Contributed to platform integrations via external APIs (Google, SAP, TNT, UPS). Created new extensions and modules featuring dashboards and configurable parameters. Customized the existing application interface by parameterising components and dependencies. Collected, structured, and modeled

Education

Industrial PhD - Artificial Intelligence at Università di Trento (Fondazione Bruno Kessler FBK)
November 1, 2022 - November 7, 2025
Master of Science - Computer Science at University of Tirana
October 1, 2009 - June 1, 2011
Bachelor of Science - Computer Science at University of Tirana
October 1, 2006 - June 1, 2009

Qualifications

European Summer School on Information Retrieval (ELSIS) – Ellis, University of Amsterdam
January 1, 2024 - November 7, 2025
GCP Fundamentals: Core Infrastructure
January 1, 2022 - November 7, 2025
Cloud Native Applications – FBK Academy
January 1, 2021 - November 7, 2025
Deep Learning Foundation – Bootcamp
January 1, 2020 - November 7, 2025
Big Data Analytics Summer School – EIT Digital / Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden)
January 1, 2020 - November 7, 2025
Data Science Bootcamp – Dphi Institute, Democratising Data Science Learning
January 1, 2020 - November 7, 2025
Managing Machine Learning Projects with GCP – Google
January 1, 2020 - November 7, 2025
Process Mining: Data Science in Action – Eindhoven University of Technology
January 1, 2019 - November 7, 2025
Google Cloud Developer Enablement Program – Big Data & Kubernetes
January 1, 2019 - November 7, 2025
Apache Spark Udemy
January 1, 2019 - November 7, 2025

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Government, Professional Services, Education

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