London, UK · MSc AI at King's College London

Giulio
Dajani

A software engineer and AI researcher building tools that help people tell what's real online. Creator of VerifAI, an award-winning multimodal deepfake detector.

84%
First Class Honours, BEng Software Engineering
99.5%
VerifAI balanced accuracy on FakeAVCeleb
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Countries studied in: Italy, UK, China, South Korea
6
Languages, three of them native
About

Who is Giulio Dajani?

Giulio Dajani is an Italian software engineer and artificial intelligence researcher based in London. He is studying for an MSc in Artificial Intelligence at King's College London, with coursework in deep learning, computer vision and intelligent systems.

He graduated from the University of Greenwich with a First Class BEng (Hons) in Software Engineering. His final-year project, VerifAI, a multimodal deepfake detection framework, received the university's Best Undergraduate Project award.

Alongside his studies, Giulio works as a Technical Support Engineer at Fluent2 Limited in London. He also runs an independent digital products business and founded the indie game studio behind TheLostKeys. Before coming to London he studied Computer Science at the University of Turin. He has also taken part in academic programmes in China and South Korea.

Featured project · 2025–2026

VerifAI

VerifAI is a multimodal deepfake detector. It looks at a video's frames and listens to its audio separately, then combines the two verdicts into one calibrated score. The whole model runs in the browser, so videos never have to leave the user's device.

99.5%balanced accuracy
0.996ROC-AUC
XceptionResNet-18Late fusion ONNX / WebAssemblyFastAPIOpen source

The free demo server may take up to a minute to wake up.

Video framesface crops
Audio trackmel spectrogram
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Xceptionvisual branch
ResNet-18audio branch
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Calibrated late fusionper-modality scores, weighted
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Real / Fake + confidence
User study · 30 participants
70–80
Most participants' System Usability Scale (SUS) scores fell in the "good usability" range.

Participants used VerifAI to check videos, then rated its usability and how much they trusted it. Most reported moderate to high trust. They preferred seeing a confidence score over a plain real/fake answer.

Tested beyond one dataset

4 benchmark datasets

  • FaceForensics++
  • Celeb-DF v2
  • DeeperForensics
  • FakeAVCeleb

Training on several datasets reduced overfitting. The model was also checked on 15 real-world videos it had never seen.

More results
0.999
Average precision

Combining video and audio beat either one alone, and caught mismatches like a real video with fake audio. If a video has no audio, VerifAI switches to a visual-only model automatically.

Why it matters

What the public told us

Findings from the survey run alongside the project.

86%
are concerned deepfakes will be misused for misinformation or fraud
23%
feel highly confident they could spot a deepfake themselves
32%
fully trust AI detection tools, which is why VerifAI shows its confidence
Journey

Turin → London, by way of Asia

🇮🇹 Turin🇬🇧 London🇨🇳 Yancheng🇰🇷 Seoul

Education

2026 – 2027

MSc Artificial Intelligence

King's College London

2026

Communication & Media Studies

Dongguk University, South Korea

2023 – 2026

BEng (Hons) Software Engineering

University of Greenwich, First Class (84%)

2025

Computer Science Summer School

Yancheng Institute of Technology, China

2022 – 2023

Computer Science

University of Turin, Italy

2017 – 2022

Computer Science Diploma

ITIS Technical College, Turin

Experience

2025 – present

Technical Support Engineer

Fluent2 Limited, London

2024 – 2025

Freelance Translator

theEword (remote)

2023

Programmer

Leonardo TEC SNC, Turin

2021

Hardware Technician

SAET S.R.L., Turin

Ventures & projects

Things I've built

2025 – 2026

TheLostKeys

A puzzle-adventure indie game. As founder, I led a remote development team from concept to production, covering strategy, project management and technical direction.

2026 – present

Digital products business

An independent business selling digital products on Etsy and Gumroad. I handle product development, branding, marketing and commercial strategy.

2025

AI platform, global team

I worked with students and researchers from several universities to design an AI platform for niche, practical applications.

Toolbox

Skills

Languages

PythonCC#JavaJavaScriptRustGoPHPRubySchemeBashSQL

AI & Web

Deep learningComputer visionONNXFastAPIReactNode.jsASP.NET

Certifications

NDG Linux EssentialsCisco Packet TracerICDLMicrosoft 365
Curriculum vitae

The one-page version

Everything above, condensed onto one page. Download it for recruiters, applications or collaborations.

↓ Download CV (PDF)
Contact

Let's talk.

Open to AI research collaborations, internships and interesting problems.

dajani.giulio@gmail.com