Andrea graduated from the University of Malta with a 2nd Upper (Hons.) degree in ICT with specialisation in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence in 2008. He further obtained an M.Sc. with Distinction in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence from the University of Malta in 2010, researching Speaker Identification. He is currently a PhD researcher at the University of East Anglia, researching Accent Information in Speaker Identification, under the supervision of Prof. Stephen Cox and Dr. Ben Milner.