Curriculum Vitae


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About Me

I am a Senior Deep Learning Researcher at MediaTek Research in London (UK) with a broad interest in Deep Learning, and a current focus on foundation models for multimodal time-series, optimization, and representation learning for structured data. I hold a PhD in the areas of Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence with a focus on Graph Representation Learning and Graph Neural Networks.

During my PhD I have been a Research Scientist Intern at Meta AI under the supervision of Dr. Vassilis Plachouras, and at Samsung AI Research under the supervision of Dr. Efthymia Tsamoura.

I've also been a visiting researcher in Professor Pietro Liò's group at the University of Cambridge, a visiting research in Dr. Bastian Rieck's group at Helmholtz Munich. Before starting my PhD I gained some industry experience with a six months internship developing Deep Learning algorithms for digital pathology, and spending 2 months as a Machine Learning consultant.

Work Experience

Senior Deep Learning Researcher

MediaTek Research · London, United Kingdom
May 2023 - Present

Research Scientist Intern

Meta AI · London, United Kingdom

Supervisor: Dr. Vassilis Plachouras

September 2022 - December 2022

Visiting Researcher

Helmholtz Munich · Munich, Germany

Supervisor: Dr. Bastian Rieck.

August 2022

Visiting Researcher

University of Cambridge · Cambridge, United Kingdom

Supervisor: Professor Pietro Liò.

April 2022 - July 2022

Research Intern

Samsung AI Research · Cambridge, United Kingdom

Supervisors: Dr. Efthymia Tsamoura.

January 2021 - July 2021

Research Fellow

University of Padova · Padova, Italy

Supervisor: Professor Fabio Vandin

Aril 2019 - September 2019

Data Scientist, Machine Learning Engineer

Machine Learning Reply · Milan, Italy
January 2019 - February 2019

Data Science, Deep Learning Algorithm Development Intern

Philips Digital & Computational Pathology · Belfast, United Kingdom
July 2018 - December 2018

Education

Ph.D. in Information Engineering

University of Padova
Focus on Graph Neural Networks and Graph Representation Learning.

Thesis: "Improving the Effectiveness of Graph Neural Networks in Practical Scenarios" [Full Text]
Supervisor: Prof. Fabio Vandin

October 2019 - March 2023

Master's Degree in Computer Engineering · 110/110 with honors

University of Padova

Thesis: "A Deep Learning Model for Personalised Human Activity Recognition." [Full Text]
Advisor: Prof. Fabio Vandin

September 2016 - February 2019

Bachelor's Degree in Information Engineering

University of Padova

Thesis: "Algorithms for the determination of node centralities in a graph."
Advisor: Prof. Pietracaprina Andrea Alberto

September 2013 - June 2016

Awards & Grants

  • Helmholtz Visiting Researcher Grant - 08/2022
    Grant awarded by the Helmholtz Information and Data Science Academy (HIDA), as part of the Helmholtz Association, to support a research stay at a Helmholtz centre.
  • Fondazione Luciano Iglesias Scholarship - 07/08/2020
    Award given to the 10 best M.Sc. graduates in Computer Engineering at the University of Padova in 2019.
  • Full PhD Scholarship from the Department of Information Engineering (University of Padova) - 2019-2022
  • ERASMUS+ Traineeship Grant - July 2018-December 2018

Publications

You can find a list of all my publications, together with associated material and links, here. You can also checkout my google scholar page here.

Patents

  • Method and System for Scene Graph Generation
    Davide Buffelli, Efthymia Tsamoura, (patent pending), 2022.

Talks & Presentations

  • Invited Talk - "Exact, Tractable Gauss-Newton Optimization in Deep Reversible Architectures"
    Presented at the NeurIPS @ Cambridge Meetup (University of Cambridge).
    06/12/2024
  • Invited Talk - "The Problem of Size-Generalization in Graph Neural Networks"
    Presented at the Artificial Intelligence Research Group Talks (Computer Laboratory) (University of Cambridge).
    04/07/2022 - [Link] [Video]
  • Invited Talk - "Word Embeddings & Graph Neural Networks for Automatic Reasoning over Knowledge Graphs"
    Presented at the Word Embedding Reading Group (University of Padova).
    25/05/2020 - [Slides] [Video]
  • Poster (Refereed Workshop) - "Are Graph Convolutional Networks Fully Exploiting Graph Structure?"
    Presented at the ELLIS Workshop on Geometric and Relational Deep Learning.
    24/02/2020 - [Slides] [Poster Video]