Experience
Postdoctoral Researcher
Working on self-supervised learning for video world models, object-centric representations,
and vision-language alignment, in the DINO team at FAIR.
Research Scientist Intern
Research internship during my PhD, worked on semantic image compression with vector-quantized autoencoders and DINO saliency maps.
Research Scientist Intern
Research internship during my PhD, worked on explainable detection of DeepFake videos.
Research Scientist Intern
Research internship for my Master’s thesis, worked on generative models for virtual try-on.
Data Science Intern
Helped the development of demand forecasting models and route optimization algorithms
for a food delivery startup.
Education
PhD in Deep Learning
Thesis
on structured representations for model explainability in deep learning and computer vision.
Supervised by Prof. Hossein Azizpour
at the division of Robotics, Perception and Learning.
MSc in Machine Learning
Thesis on generative models for virtual try-on, supervised by
Prof. Josephine Sullivan
and Urs Bergmann.
BSc in Computer Engineering
Graduated with honors (110L/110).
Accomplishments
ICASSP Travel Grant
Awarded a travel grant by the ÅForsk Foundation
to attend the
ICASSP 2023 conference
and present the paper
“Variable Rate Allocation for Vector-Quantized Autoencoders”.
BMVC Travel Grant
Awarded a travel grant by the Karl Engvers Foundation
to attend the
BMVC 2022 conference
and present the paper
“Quantitative Metrics for Evaluating Explanations of Video DeepFake Detectors”.
ECCV Outstanding Reviewer
Ranked among the top 12 reviewers of the ECCV 2020
conference, based on the quality of the reviews and the feedback to the authors.
See certificateICLR Travel Grant
Awarded a travel grant by the Karl Engvers Foundation
to attend the
ICLR 2020 conference.
Best Student Project
Reimplementation and analysis of “Colorful Image Colorization”.
The project has 400+ starts on GitHub,
was praised by François Chollet, and is cited in several spinoffs, scientific papers, and blog posts.
Skills
Technical Skills
Pytorch
SLURM
HPC Administration
Languages
Italian
English
French
Swedish
Hobbies
Climbing
Cooking
Photography