Simone Alghisi
PhD Student at University of TrentoEducation
University of Trento
Trento, IT
PhD in Information Engineering and Computer Science
Nov. 2023 - Nov. 2026
- Area: Deep and Structured Machine Learning, Machine Learning and Intelligent Optimization, Language Speech and Interaction
- Admission: 2nd candidate selected out of 58 — 93/100 points
University of Trento
Trento, IT
Master's Degree in Artificial Intelligence Systems - Computer Vision
Sep. 2021 - Jul. 2023
- Grade: 110/110 with Honours
- Master's Thesis: “Automatic and Semantic Detection of New Information in Document Time Series”, supervised by Prof. Giuseppe Riccardi
- Admission: 8th candidate selected out of 99 — 95.38/100 points
University of Trento
Trento, IT
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Sep. 2018 - Jul. 2021
- Grade: 110/110 with Honours
- Final Dissertation: “The emotional impact of the Covid-19”, supervised by Prof. Alberto Montresor
Experience
Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
Montreal, QC
Research Intern
Jan. 2023 - Apr. 2023
- Investigated the robustness of PLMs to spoken interactions for task-oriented dialogues. The work has been supervised by Prof. Giuseppe Riccardi and Prof. Mirco Ravanelli.
- Contributed to SpeechBrain - Deep Learning for Spoken Language Understanding
Knowdive
Trento, IT
Junior Researcher
Sep. 2021 - Sep. 2022
- Researching under Prof. Fausto Giunchiglia supervision about General Artificial Intelligence, Egocentric Vision, Few-Shot Learning.
Eurecat - Centre Tecnològic de Catalunya
Barcelona, ES
Junior Data Scientists
May 2021 - Jun. 2021
- Retrieved and managed over 6TB of data from Twitter (twarc) — more than 1 Billion tweets.
- Inferred demographic and geographical data of 6 million users using state-of-the-art library (m3inference, geopy).
- Contributed on GitHub to m3inference, an open source state-of-the-art library, by improving exception handling of corner cases — pull request.
- Developed a pipeline to efficiently extract relevant data about the users, perform emotion analysis techniques, and save useful statistics.
Liceo B. Russel
Trento, IT
High-School Tutor
Feb. 2021 - May 2021
- Taught base concepts about algorithms and data structures for regional competitions (OII).
Info: if you want to know additional details about my projects, please take a look at the following page.