About Me
I am an international engineer and applied researcher with a passion for technology.
- Currently trying to start a new venture
- Ex Tech Leader at Yeji in building engineering solutions using AI(LLM, XGBoost, OR)
- Was Manager at Avidbots, leading the Advanced Technology Group focused on robotic innovations.
- Led supply chain and optimization projects usign ML at Ivado Labs.
- Significant role in product development and prototype testing at Volvo's research department.
- Contributed to research papers and patents in autonomous vehicle technologies.
- Involved in collaborations with known research institutions such as the Vector Institute, University of Waterloo, and University of Toronto, Chalmers and Vinnova.
- Lived in 4 different countries: Albania, Italy, Sweden, Canada, and traveled for work/leisure in 37 different ones.
- Enjoy travelling, soccer, chess, eating good food, and cooking.
Experience
Conferences
- January 2020 - IAEA - Emerging Technologies Workshop: Invited as a Subject Matter Expert on Deep Learning for safety critical systems. Workshop Details
- December 2019 - ICMLA - Presented Paper on Deep Neural Network Compression for Image Classification and Object Detection. Conference Details
- October 2018 - GITEX - Dubai Huawei Innovation Day: Speaker on "How AI is shaping the automotive industry?"
- September 2018 - Auto.AI - Berlin World Caffe Session: Panel Speaker on challenges of using deep learning for autonomous software stacks.
- July 2018 - IJCAI-ECAI Stockholm - Autonomous Driving Panel: "Will we be able to buy fully autonomous cars in 2030?"
- April 2018 - Vehicle Electronics And Connected Services: Speaker on "Perceptron – Deep Neural Networks for Perception in Trucks."
Publications
- September 2019: "SalsaNet: Fast Road and Vehicle Segmentation in LiDAR Point Clouds for Autonomous Driving" - Paper accepted at the IEEE Symposium on Intelligent Vehicle 2020. Read Paper
- October 2019: "Deep Neural Network Compression for Image Classification and Object Detection" - Paper accepted at the ICMLA Conference 2019. Read Paper
Education
- Master of Computer Science - Politecnico Di Torino, Italy (April 2011) - Graduation grade: 104/110
- Bachelor of Computer Science - Politecnico Di Torino, Italy (September 2008) - Graduation grade: 100/110
- Master Exchange Program - Chalmers Tekniska Högskola, Sweden (September 2009 - June 2010)