Curriculum Vitae

Biography

Education

  • Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches
    Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
    Thesis: From model complexity reduction to feature engineering in deep learning: a regularization story
  • Ph.D. in Physics (cum laude)
    Politecnico di Torino, Italy
    Thesis: From Statistical Physics to Algorithms in Deep Neural Systems
  • M.Sc. Embedded Systems (score: 110/110 cum laude)
    Politecnico di Torino (Italy), Politecnico di Milano (Italy), and University of Illinois at Chicago (USA)

Editorial Activity

  • Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions of Neural Networks and Learning Systems
  • Action Editor for Transactions on Machine Learning Research
  • Associate Editor for the EURASIP Journal on Image and Video Processing
  • Area Chair:
    • ICML (2026)
    • ICLR (2026)
    • NeurIPS (2025)
    • IJCNN (2025)
    • ICASSP (2026)
    • ICME (2026)
  • Session Chair:
    • ECML-PKDD (2024)
    • ICIP (2022)
  • Conference Reviewer:
    • CVPR (2026,2025,2024,2023,2022,2021)
    • ICCV (2025,2023,2021)
    • ECCV (2024,2022)
    • WACV (2026,2025,2024,2023)
    • AAAI (2026,2025,2024,2023)
    • ICLR (2025, 2024)
    • ICML (2025,2024)
    • NeurIPS(2025,2024,2023)
    • ACM MM (2025)
    • AISTATS (2025)
    • BMVC (2024,2023)
    • ECML-PKDD (2024)
    • ICASSP (2025,2023)
    • ICME (2025, 2023)

Grants and funding sources

  • Hi!Paris internal chair, Project GIFFAI “Grounding Information Flow for Frugal AI” (2024-2028)
    Role: Principal Investigator. €200,000
  • Project BANERA “Bias-Aware NEural aRchitecture seArch”. (2024-2027)
    Role: Principal Investigator.
  • Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-TSIA) Project SODA “System On Chip Design leveraging Artificial Intelligence” (2023-2027) Role: Team Member. € 531,000
  • European Project ELIAS “European Lighthouse of AI for Sustainability” (2023-2027)
    Role: Task leader for “Reducing Energy Requirements of Computation”.
    EU grant n. 101120237. € 11,030,575
  • Hi!Paris external chair, 3 years fixed-term assistant professor recruitment (2021-2024)
    Role: Principal Investigator. € 750,000. - 2024

Scientific animation

Awards and honors

Ph.D. Examination Committee

  • Tom BORDIN - “Image semantic compression at extremely low bitrates”
    Role: Thesis reviewer
    Université de Rennes, France - Dec 2025
  • Miles EVERETT - “Unlocking Scalability in Non-Iterative Capsule Networks”
    Role: Thesis reviewer
    University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom - May 2025
  • Tharsan SENTHIVEL - “Towards more Efficient Transformers for Object Detection and Tracking”
    Role: Thesis reviewer
    Cergy Paris Université, France - Dec 2024
  • Farzad NIKFAM - “Security and Privacy in Artificial Intelligence”
    Role: Thesis reviewer
    Politecnico di Torino, Italy - Sep 2024
  • Yiqun LIU - “Learning for new generation video coders”
    Role: Committee member
    Université de Rennes, France - Dec 2023