Ilaria Ciocci obtained her master's degree in Management Engineering (specialization in Decision-Making Models for Management Engineering) in July 2024 at Sapienza University of Rome. She presented a thesis titled "Block Decomposition Methods for training Deep Neural Networks", supervised by Professor Laura Palagi. Since November 2024, she has been enrolled in the ABRO PhD program, with a curriculum in Operations Research (MAT-09), at the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering Antonio Ruberti (DIAG), Sapienza University of Rome. Her main research activities focus on optimization methods for machine learning.