At ITC and FBK MF co-authored two international patents, contributed in over 15 international and national projects, and developed open source and proprietary software packages for statistical machine translation and statistical language modelling. He conducted several industrial projects that lead to relevant deployments in the area of speech recognition technology and to the set-up of two spin-off companies.

MF co-authored about 90 contributions in international journals, conferences, and books. He served in program committees of over 40 international conferences, as associate editor of ACM TSLP [05-07] and FnTIR[05-], and as editor in chief of ACM TSLP [07-09]. He held over 15 invited speeches and chaired several conference sessions. He co-organizes the International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation series, and chaired the 2007 edition.

MF is consulting professor at the University of Trento, where he teaches in the international master and doctorate schools, supervises graduate and PhD students, and serves in several academic and steering committees. He is currently co-director of the Master in Human Language Technologies and Interfaces.