Federico Baldassarre

Federico Baldassarre

Postdoctoral Researcher

FAIR / Meta AI

Biography

Federico Baldassarre is a postdoctoral researcher at FAIR in Meta AI, Paris. His current interests include self-supervised learning, computer vision, and world models. During his PhD at KTH, Stockholm, he worked on the explainability of deep learning models, applied to both computer vision and protein folding.

Interests
  • Self-supervised learning
  • Video world models
  • Explainability and reasoning
Education
  • PhD in Deep Learning, 2018 - 2023

    KTH - Royal Institute of Technology

  • MSc in Machine Learning, 2016 - 2018

    KTH - Royal Institute of Technology

  • BSc in Computer Engineering, 2013 - 2016

    UNIBO - University of Bologna

News

  • Sept 2023 I join the DINO team at Meta AI in Paris as a postdoctoral researcher 🦖
  • Jun 2023 PhD Graduation 🎓🎉
  • Feb 2023 Our work on semantic image compression with quantized autoencoders is accepted at ICASSP 2023 (Meta AI internship) .
  • Sept 2022 Our work on quantitative metrics for evaluating DeepFake explanations is accepted at BMVC 2022 (Huawei Research internship).
  • Aug 2022 My master student Erik Dao graduated with a thesis on sparsity in transformers for object detection (DETR).