Alumni AS-AI

I have investigated issues concerning AI like consciousness and free will and I studied with particular attention the debate between representationalism and anti-representationalism on this field. I'm able to use EEG equipment and I'm a member of "Cosmic Lab" (Roma Tre University) in the "Philosophy of language group ", that is devoted to investigation of the cognitive and neural foundations of language, communication and social interaction. Contact: ale.acciai@gmail.com

I currently work at the Research Center in Advanced Biomedicine and Bioengineering (PRABB), Università Campus Bio-Medico of Roma. I do research in Bioengineering, Computer Engineering and Industrial Engineering. My current project is 'Automatic analysis of CLSM 3D tera-voxel images'. My skills and expertise focus on Computer Networking, Information Technology, Project managementm Innovation Management, Artificial Neural, Network, Computational Neuroscience, Business Innovation. Contact: p.afferni@unicampus.it

Software Engineer and innovation enthusiast, looking to combine two passions: science of sound and computer programming. My career started with my passion for music: attracted by the science of sound, I decided to pursue my studies on Sound Engineering. This experience led me to explore scientific innovation helping the Bruno Kessler Foundation (FBK) on developing a speech recognize based tool to support teachers in the task of detect children's reading disorder by automatically finding the reading errors . I'm now working with Pedius, a startup that offer customer cares and assistance services for deaf people to help them both on simple tasks and manage emergencies. Contact: s.artuso@pedius.org

I'm interested in statistical and computational physics, i.e. in the investigation of the possibile links between physics and artificial intelligence and machine learning. I deepened the stydy of statistical mechanics and critical phenomena, with the stydy of the behavior of basic models ( the Ising Model mostly) in which many elementary entities interact with each other and give rise to collective phenomena. The project I'm working on aims to test how, for an artificial agent, an autonomous exploration of its sorrounding environment can be useful to perform externally assigned tasks. The learning phase should consist of the agent self-generating its own targets and goals, so that knowledge about the world and skills in interacting with its elements can be acquired and then can result useful during the test phase. Contact: badiali.1565200@studenti.uniroma1.it

I’m very interested in understanding the functioning of the brain. In particular, my first interest is generating a bio-inspired artificial intelligence enable to help the detection of diseased area associated with some particular clinical symptoms, in order to find the best treatment. My expectation is learning how to create and use a brain model for studying disease and for controlling humanoid robots. Additionally, I hope to better understand how the brain works as well as how to develop a scientific project and subsequently an article. Contact: buscaglione.silvia@gmail.com

Thanks to the computational skills that I am acquiring in AS-AI, I want to propose a phd project wich involves neural networks and a linguistic typology approach to study linguistic corpora based on usage, with the final aim to trace differences and analogies in the information structure of the world's languages.I'm studying the role and the effect of language on problem solving tasks (like WCST), through an artificial recurrent neural network simulating verbal working-memory, with the help and support of dott. G.Granato. Coherenly with a large theoretical background we see language as cognition-enhancing tool. Contact: alessandro.butt@gmail.com

My passion for coding started at school, when I was only a child and, during college, I found during a great interest into biology and neuroscience. Combining these fields of interest,I decided to focus my attention on the application computational methodologies to study the nervous system. Using my knowledges, I'm developing a bio-inspired AI which aim to control robotic and prosthetic system. My project in AS-AI consist in a deep learning network which takes inputs from sensors that measure the activity of Autonomous Nervous System in order to classify Human emotional status. Contact: adrianocapirchio86@gmail.com

My interests regards the application of IA and computational models to study brain to another perspective. Beginning from the open problem of the place cells formation. I'd like to work in research linking formal models and experiments in vivo. I would like to acquire skills in developing computational models for biological neural networks and in neurophysiological techniques used in the laboratory. The school represents an excellent opportunity to obtain the theoretical bases in the field of computational neuroscience, fundamental for the thesis that I propose and for a possible future career in research. Contact: fedecash2@gmail.com

I'm very interested in Engineering and programming and in what AI is going to bring to this world. I always wanted to help people, but I wasn't really interested in medicine, so I've decided to contribute through the technology. For the future I'd like to work in an agency for biomedical instruments. Contact: marcocata94@gmail.com

Despite the choice of my field of studies, I 'm fascinated by the brain and the way in which, by elaborating information, it manages to build representations of the body and the surrounding world, giving rise to mind and behavior. I would like to be able to connect my understanding of the mechanisms underlying the nervous system - that is, biology and mathematical modeling associated with the dynamics of a single neuron, of synapses and neuronal populations - with a high level knowledge of how information comes processed on a large scale to give rise to behavior. I would therefore like to acquire specific knowledge in the field of computational neuroscience and artificial intelligence. I believe in fact that decision-making algorithms will play a fundamental role in the enterprise of decoding neuronal activity. Contact: celotto.1650378@studenti.uniroma1.it

Coming from software companies, I gained experience in Alitalia Airline in Rome, Italy. First understanding the airline's business with the focus on Flight Operations, then moving to the Information Technology Department, Web division as a System Analyst, to support a wide variety of business clients with custom solutions, and finally working as Project Manager on the whole project life cycle, starting from the business needs and ending with the service delivery assurance. My main role is to design functional and technical solutions, coordinate teams made up both internal or external resources and suppliers, plan the activity and control costs to achieve project goals. Contact: f_d_amore@hotmail.com

After graduation I worked on software development at different companies. At the I.C.G. (the last company in which I worked) I participated in the design development and maintenance of services for insurance companies. Contact: depersiis.l@gmail.com

I teach maths, physics and informatics and I'm passionate about science communication and writing technical and scientific dissemination articles for specialized science and ICT blogs. Moreover I worked in a software house where I projected and developed databases. I want to acquire the new technical skills I need to become a data scientist, to analyze data and to develop Machine Learning models and software. I'm looking forward to write articles and books about Artificial Intelligence and its applications. Thanks principally to the Advanced School in Artificial Intelligence of ISTC-CNR in Rome, I’m acquiring the skills that are necessary to realize my dream. Contact: giancolamarco@libero.it

I am a computational neuroscientist trained in psychology, neuroscience and artificial intelligence. I have a graduate fellowship at ITSC - CNR and my research interests concern neuro-robotic systems, computational neuropsychology, artificial Intelligence (in particular ANNs and autonomous learning). I am using a neuropsychological approach to test both humans and artificial agents, with the aim of studying high-order brain processes (from perception to consciousness) in humans and creating neuro-inspired robots with a human-like flexible behavior. I m attending the AS-AI School to acquire many new intruments of machine learning, with the aim to use them in my researches. I'm collaborating with Gianluca Baldassarre and Paolo Muratore in a project with the goal to hybridize RL and Generative models for enchant autonomous robot perception. Moreover I collaborate with Alessandro Buttinelli, Gianluca Baldassarre and Domenico Parisi in a project that aims to study the role of language in humans cognitive behaviour, implementing the inner speech in a neuro-ispired agent. Contact: giovanni.granato92@gmail.com

In our lives we are surrounded by a series of social and economic problems of varying size and relevance. Humanity has always confronted with these issues and technology has often been a useful tool, although sometimes ambivalent. This is why my mission is to implement economically sustainable solutions to these issues, using technology to improve our lives, always including of the ethical and human aspect. Contact: globalstr@gmail.com

I am a neuroscientist trained in electrophysiology and biochemistry. Over time I developed an interest in mathematics, programming and artificial neural networks. I took advantage of the Advanced School of Artificial Intelligence to complete my formation and gain experience in the field. The aim of my research is to build a model, based on artificial neural networks, of the different brain areas involved in the development of post-traumatic stress disorder. The model is well grounded in state-of-the-art experimental knowledge of the brain and of the disorder and will clarify how the traumatic experience is fixed in brain networks and the mechanism of action of recent established therapies. Contact: andrea.mattera.85@gmail.com

My interests and studies are aimed at deepening in the field of Cognitive Neuroscience, Neuropsychology, Artificial intelligence, Spiking Neural Network Models and Neurorobotic Systems. I am currently contributing to the development of a software application capable of making an early diagnosis of dementias, in particular Alzheimer's. Contact: andrea.mirino@gmail.com

Enthusiastic researcher in neurobiology and programming of bio inspired models. I learned and refined my knowledge of these two disciplines at La Sapienza University and at AS-AI, where, in addition to an extremely well-trained team of professors, I developed excellent relationships with other students with the aim of creating a Network, for the construction of an excellent team. Combining my knowledges I aim to create computational models that can be applied in robotics, rehabilitation and life improvement. My project for the school consists in training a deep learning network to take input from the autonomic nervous system and learns to recognize an emotional state of an experimental subject. Contact: francesco.montedori1990@gmail.com

I am a person interested in studying computer science as a tool to solve problems of different kinds. Now I am concentrated in the study of artificial intelligence, useful to solve very general problems. In my free time I am interested in the mechanisms of the brain to know more about how the human being works. I'm working on improving an existing project called GRAIL (Goal-discovery Robotics Autonomous Intrisecally-Motivated Learning). The goal is to design an agent capable of learning skills in a totally autonomous way, starting from zero knowledge of the world. My task is to bring improvements from the point of view of flexibility of knowledge. In particular, to learn to achieve the same goal in different ways, possibly leveraging on previously acquired sensorimotor competence. The system must also understand when it is necessary to learn a new way of doing the same thing or not. Contact: davidelmontella@gmail.com

I am a Theoretical Physics Student at La Sapienza University, Rome. I firmly believe in solving intelligence and consciousness. Currently growing a wide spectrum of expertise: physics and mathematics (statistical field-theory, information theory, stochastic processes), informatics (phyton for scientific computing, C/C++, javascript, machine learning), neuroscience (biophysical models of neurons and networks). I am currently enrolled, togheter with Giovanni Granato and Gianluca Baldassare, in a quest for developing new Reinforcement Learning techniques for Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) architectures. Our hope is that this new framework could potentially drive the formation of reward-based representation, better suited for the machine task, which in turn will results in overall better performances. Our test will be the successful completion of the Winsconsin Test. Contact: muratore.paolo95@gmail.com

I have always been passionate about strategy, technology and organization. I played several chess competitions and all the years as student representative kept me well alive. Each man at some extent wants to overcome his own limits and make the World around better. These are all some of the motivations for which I first approached management and then I turned to digital. You must understand what is around you to protect it and you need data, processes and technology to ensure efficiency. Contact: gio_pizza@hotmail.it

I am a Biomedical Engineer loving robotics. I am interested in designing robotic platforms and their functional architectures to provide assistance to people who suffer neuromuscular and muscoloskeletal disorders. I think new methods such as machine learning, deep learning and reinforcement learning can help in this kind of applications. Contact: tamantinichristian@gmail.com

When I started my studies in philosophy, I always had an interest in what concerned artificial intelligence. Ended the course I started to explore the world of cognitive sciences, where I deepened the studies of computational psychiatry, which led me to the discovery of AS-AI. Thanks to the Advanced School I was able to discover the world of Machine Learning and computational models. Moreover, I had the opportunity to take part in many projects, one of which will be my experimental degree thesis, with which I will conclude my Master's Course. Contact: ioanabiris@libero.it

I am very passionate about technology, especially Computer Science. Recently, I am interested in Machine Learning applied to Computer Vision. I have a Bachelor and a Master's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering, specialized in AI and ML. I have done my Bachelor thesis at CNR about deep learning applied to computer vision. My goals are to work in a big and dynamic company, which allows me to continuously grow, learn and have fun. My project is a pipeline of two deep neural networks: one to detect people silhouettes (instance segmentation) and one to understand who are those people (person identification). It is a real world project, which can be applied to video surveillance systems and I developed it for Inglobe Technologies Srl. I have also colaborated to dAIsy, a drone control system, involving a deep neural network for object detection in real-time. Contact: massimiliano.bruni@icloud.com

Thanks to Oliver Sacks' books I first learned about the human brain's potentialities. I devoted my academic life to the fascinating discipline of Neuroscience. I had the terrific opportunity to collaborate with the Social and Cognitive Neuroscience laboratory in Fondazione Santa Lucia (Rome). I had the chance to work with both clinical populations (Parkinson’s Disease) and healthy people. I became familiar with TMS, EEG and movement kinematics techniques. I am amazed by the extraordinary, bizarre potentialities of the human brain. I am eager to see what we will achieve in the future by linking them to AI. Thanks to AS-AI and with my team colleagues, I intend to classificate EEG brain signals for the future development of a Brain Computer Interface. Contact: dantoniosara2@gmail.com

I've always been fascinated by the world we live in, as much as the world inside us and everything we, humans, build up around. I decided to enroll in Biotechnology to understand more of what is life, how does it work and what is, in practice, possible to do with that. The topics I've developed a special interest for are molecular and structural biology, neuroscience and methabolism. From neuroscience I've then discovered AI, machine learning and started studying basic informatics. AS-AI introduced me to the real research work and motivated my interest in AI. I'm planning to further explore both bio and computer science; my aim is pluridisciplinary research in various health, medical and tech-development fields. Contact: dirocco.1782270@studenti.uniroma1.it

I've been passionate about science and technology since very young age. During my MSc in Genetics and Molecular Biology I was amazed by regulatory pathways and how the system is finely tuned at many levels, also thanks to the interplay between non-coding RNAs. These intricate regulatory networks are relevant in physiological conditions for the homeostasis of the cell, differentiation or, if deregulated, in pathogenesis. It caught my interest the possibility to investigate these networks with Machine Learning (ML) and Deep Learning, to find relevant features that may be involved in pathogenesis or development. My project in AS-AI consists in making use of ML and Network analysis to investigate a proteomic dataset of cancer patients, in order to find new cancer biomarkers, find novel druggable targets and predict therapy response. Contact: federica.farinella1@gmail.com

After graduating I was sure of only one thing "wanting to do research". I had the opportunity to get to know the best research group of the ISTC-CNR that works with artificial intelligence. Here I discovered this new line of research and it fascinated me. I am a cognitive neuroscientist, investigating the link between neural circuits and behavior is my passion. I have different interests, which are reflected in different researches ranging from affordances to emotions. Contact: floragiocondo@gmail.com

Recently admitted to an executive PhD in Computer Science at University of Milan Bicocca, I currently collaborate as Business Strategist & AI Research Fellow in an AI startup and as Research Advisor & Consultant for a well-known media intelligence and communication private consultant in Milan. My final goal is to merge academic research and education activities (and maybe a startup) within the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science and Complex Systems. In general, I am keen on working on inter-disciplinary cutting-edge projects allowing me both to create and manage innovation. In AS-AI I am working on a project in Computational Social Science with the Laboratory of Agent-Based Social Simulation of ISTC. The project is aimed at studying the way in which European citizens perceive democracy, by means of both a statistical study of the democracy perception in the European society and a social simulation of the emergent opinion behaviors through agent-based modelling methods. Contact: luca.marc@hotmail.it

I'm trying to figure out how humans learn. What's the point? To teach machines to learn! I am currently looking for bugs within a macroeconomic simulation using neural networks. In downtime I'm teaching a neural network to read electroencephalography. Contact: francesco.mttl@gmail.com

I work as Big Data Engineer in Groupama Insurance Company. I graduated BA and MA at the University of Rome "La Sapienza", both in Computer Science. I am actually passionated about Big Data/Machine learning fields and I want to improve my skills and hopefully make some individual project using this knowledge. Contact: karimmejri93@gmail.com

I have a Bachelor's Degree in Philosophy and Master's Degree in Cognitive Science. I'm really interested in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Thanks to the Advanced Artificial Intelligence(Istc-Cnr) I'm discovering my passion for coding and I'm acquiring new skills every day. Currently I'm collaborating on Empath-AI project. In particular, we are using deep neural networks and computer vision to improve e-learning systems. Contact: carlocn93@libero.it

Since I was a child, I have always loved maths, in particular for the accuracy with which it defines concepts in order to use them to prove new things. I have never seen a line of code before choosing the Computer Science degree, when I realized that I wanted to solve real problems using maths in a practical way. During the university years, I was really "hungry" (citing Steve Jobs) to learn all about the computer science fields. Some of the courses that fascinated me most were Algorithms, Big Data and Artificial Intelligence. Now, I am a Research Fellow at "Sapienza" University, Department of Statistical Sciences, working on Big Data analysis in Bioinformatics. My interest in Artificial Intelligence, in particular Machine Learning, led me to increase my knownledge, following the courses at the Advanced School in AI. Contact: palini.francesco@gmail.com

I've got a Msc in Physics in 2000 and a PhD in Geophysics in 2004. Actually I’m a scientist of INGV. I work with many different research groups on many different topics as my skills are basically as data analyst and scientific software developer. Basically I try to help scientists to find the mathematical pathway to solve get a specific goal and develop user-friendly software to perform such analysis in many different scenarios. I can code in C++, Matlab, R and (during the school) I have learnt also Python. Contact: alessandro.pignatelli@ingv.it

Bearded. Technology Enthusiast. Natural-born Human. My passion for technology began with a small yellow GameBoy. It led me to deepen and increase over the years the interest towards digital instruments. After my BA degree I had the opportunity to do a short experience in 3Net and Engineering in the IT field, which taught me the value of teamwork and the importance of technology in business processes. Subsequently I undertook a MA degree in Economics, with a focus on knowledge management, successfully achieving a master’s thesis on the benefits and risks of AI in the field of human resources. I know the fundamentals of Python and R. I recently embarked on a course at TAG Innovation School to take on the role of Digital Officer. Contact: pietro.pratense@gmail.com

I love algorithms and models to solve hard real problems. AI helps me in facing challenges that are usually intractable with classic techniques. My objective is to combine business knowledge off a target customer's domain and AI models to solve practical problems. My project is about increasing "Driver mobility intelligence" in a Ride Hiling context, allowing a driver to maximize its profit. Contact: tavernelli.daniele@gmail.com

I'm a newbie in the AI field, even if I've always benn fascinated by this world. After a three years job experience in a publishing house I decided to change my professional path and I attended the AS-AI school. I'm interested mostly in industrial application of the technology, but looking at the social and ethical consequences. For this reason I decided to join the Empath-AI project, trying to improve the recommendation and teaching system of the massive online courses, aiming to build a system capable of recognize the students involvement. Contact: simone.trav@gmail.com

My educational path has been always driven by a strong interest in autistic spectrum disorder. After my bachelor's degree in Psychology, I earned the Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) Certificate. Currently, I'm attending the Master Programme in Cognitive Neuroscience, because I deeply desire to combine my previous knowledge with new research tecnologies. My research project simulates some typical behaviors of autism using a computational model. The model on the cerebellum is developed starting from behavioral data of abnormal conditioned response timing in eyeblink conditioning. Contact: emilianotrimarco@gmail.com

I am totally devoted to Science and I think that lifelong learning has a pivotal role in human society, so I have never stopped broadening my knowledge. Learning is the key to living a fulfilling and rewarding life and this is the message I try to get across at school among my students. I am attending a PhD in Geoinformation at the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” in the framework of an ESA Earth observation project that aims at advancing our understanding of the carbon cycle and management of forests, biodiversity and ecosystems through the retrieval of biomass by using satellite data. In 2017 I joined the Aerospace Committee of the Order of Engineers of Rome and since then I have been giving my contribution to conferences, technical magazines and collaborations with schools. I had the opportunity of deepening my knowledge in the field of machine and deep learning by the Advanced School of Artificial Intelligence (AS-AI) through which I have started a collaboration with the CNR Atmospheric Pollution Institute (CNR-IIA) to develop machine learning algorithms to monitor air quality. Contact: giu.defeliceproia@gmail.com

I am a multipotential professional with skills in different topics. The best example of it is showing in the different projects where I am actually participating. In fact, now I am doing a research project in CamCID (Cambridge Center for Innovation and Development), I am developing my thesis/research in AI2Life, and I am developing a project on the re-organization of Fast Charge Sapienza (a team of student that realizes an electric car to run in Formula E Student). My final goal is to do research and innovation in companies because I will love to see ideas and projects from laboratories directly in everyday life.You can also see my multiple skills and expertise with a rapid vision on my LinkedIn profile; I can be in an interdisciplinary team and produce results in different contests. In AS-AI, I am working on my thesis that will be about face recognition; I will also look at how a "damage" of the artificial neural network can be useful in the reproduction and study of prosopagnosia (inability to recognize human faces). I am starting to think about how can be managed the new education system in AI2Life and increase the quality and opportunity to develop students' soft skills during the studying period and after. Contact: dtetesi@gmail.com

Since my adolescence, I have had a deep passion for neuroscience and informatics. I have chosen the AS-AI because I’m interested to explore new solutions, starting from the study of the brain and arriving at the creation of new applications in the AI field. Specifically, I love the idea that scientific research can improve people's quality of life, through the advancement of methods of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. My research field focuses on behavioral addictions, autism spectrum disorders, and mindfulness. Contact: francescoiga7@gmail.com