Nicola is responsible for the development of ModernMT, a neural machine translation software as a service specifically created to support professional translators. Nicola mainly works to integrate the most effective research advances into ModernMT to make users more and more satisfied.

Formerly, he was a researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler and focused his activities on several Natural Language Processing tasks such as Language Modelling, Information Retrieval and Machine Translation, and was also involved in plenty of EU projects.