Pietro Mazzaglia

Pietro Mazzaglia

Ghent, Flemish Region, Belgium
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PhD student at Ghent University, researching Artificial Intelligence.

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Experience

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    Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute

    Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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    Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

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    London, England, United Kingdom

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    Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

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    Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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    Ghent, Flemish Region, Belgium

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    Catania, Sicily, Italy

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    Catania, Sicily, Italy

Education

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    Ghent University

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    Promotors: Prof. Bart Dhoedt (Ghent University) & Dr. Ir. Tim Verbelen (Ghent University/Verses)

    Researching Reinforcement Learning, Self-Supervised Learning, Robotics and Active Inference.
    10+ co-authored papers.

    As a first author:
    - 5 conference publications (NeurIPS 2021, AAAI-22 oral, ICLR 2023 spotlight, ICML 2023 oral, ICRA 2024)
    - 2 journal articles (Entropy 2022 best paper, RA-L 2024)
    - 7 workshop presentations (ICLR 2021, ICML 2022, NeurIPS 2022, RSS 2023…

    Promotors: Prof. Bart Dhoedt (Ghent University) & Dr. Ir. Tim Verbelen (Ghent University/Verses)

    Researching Reinforcement Learning, Self-Supervised Learning, Robotics and Active Inference.
    10+ co-authored papers.

    As a first author:
    - 5 conference publications (NeurIPS 2021, AAAI-22 oral, ICLR 2023 spotlight, ICML 2023 oral, ICRA 2024)
    - 2 journal articles (Entropy 2022 best paper, RA-L 2024)
    - 7 workshop presentations (ICLR 2021, ICML 2022, NeurIPS 2022, RSS 2023, ICML 2024)

    Successfully completed the following courses: Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Deep Generative Models, AI Research Seminar.

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    Activities and Societies: Student Rep for Master’s students of the Department of Computer Science

    Final GPA: 81.75% (top 5%)

    MSc Thesis: “Learning to Explore via Meta Reinforcement Learning”
    - Supervisor: Prof. Ke Chen
    - Co-Supervisor: Mr. Jonathan Crawford

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    Diploma Thesis: "Curiosity-Driven Exploration via Latent Bayesian Surprise"
    - Supervisor: Prof. Bart Dhoedt (Ghent University)
    - Opponent: Dr. Steven Bohez (DeepMind)

    Research with the SSC tutor:
    - 2 journal articles
    - 1 conference publication

    Scuola Superiore di Catania is a School of Excellence where few selected students (20 among ~250 per year) are required to maintain excellent academic standing in their exams in order to maintain their scholarship. Moreover, they…

    Diploma Thesis: "Curiosity-Driven Exploration via Latent Bayesian Surprise"
    - Supervisor: Prof. Bart Dhoedt (Ghent University)
    - Opponent: Dr. Steven Bohez (DeepMind)

    Research with the SSC tutor:
    - 2 journal articles
    - 1 conference publication

    Scuola Superiore di Catania is a School of Excellence where few selected students (20 among ~250 per year) are required to maintain excellent academic standing in their exams in order to maintain their scholarship. Moreover, they are required to attend several internal courses and seminars, held by professors affiliated to University of Catania or to other institutions (both Italian or foreign).

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    Activities and Societies: Elected Representative of the students for the Computer Engineering Course

    Final GPA: 29.52/30 (top 1%)

    BSc Thesis: "Designing a TOSCA framework for deployment and orchestration of Cloud Applications"
    - Supervisor: Professor Orazio Tomarchio
    - Co-Supervisor: Professor Giuseppe Di Modica
    - Special thanks: Dr Domenico Calcaterra

Licenses & Certifications

Volunteer Experience

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    Italian Teacher

    University of Manchester Italian Society

    - 6 months

    Education

    Volunteering to teach Italian to international students, at beginner and intermediate levels.

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    Supporting member

    Alumni Scuola Superiore di Catania

    - Present 3 years

    Education

    Association of the previous scholars graduated at the School of Excellence SSC.
    Active members organize events and support the growth of the current SSC scholars and community.

Publications

Courses

  • Convolutional Neural Networks

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  • Developing on AWS (AWSD).

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  • Improving Deep Neural Networks: Hyperparameter tuning, Regularization and Optimization

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  • Neural Networks and Deep Learning

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  • Sequence Models

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  • Structuring Machine Learning Projects

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Honors & Awards

  • PhD fellowship

    FWO

    Awarded an FWO fellowship in fundamental research to financially support my work.

  • First Ascent 2020

    Bending Spoons

    First Ascent is an exclusive, all-expenses-paid, four-day retreat for twenty of Italy’s finest Computer Science and Software Engineering students.

    20 selected applicants among ~700 Italian university students for the final event. (~3% acceptance rate)

  • School of Excellence admission

    Scuola Superiore di Catania

    Scuola Superiore di Catania is a School of Excellence, where 20 admitted students per year live for free upon the school structures.

    Admitted to Scuola Superiore for the STEM program among ~150 applicants (~7% acceptance rate).

Languages

  • English

    Full professional proficiency

  • Italiano

    Native or bilingual proficiency

  • French

    Elementary proficiency

  • Dutch

    Elementary proficiency

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