Francesco Pase
I'm a PhD Student at the University of Padova, supervised by prof. Michele Zorzi.
My research interests are in the fields of machine learning and wireless communications, with particular expertise in reinforcement learning, graph algorithms and information theory. My current research interests are in efficient/distributed learning, model compression, and communication/learning co-deisgn.
Here you can find my CV.
Experience
February 2022 - August 2022
Imperial College London
Visiting Researcher
Joined the Information Processing & Communications Lab, within the Intelligent Systems and Networks group, uder the supervision of Prof. Deniz Gunduz, where I do research on Reinforcement/Federated Learning and Information Theory.
October 2020 - Present
University of Padova
PhD Student
Conducting research on machine learning and wireless communications with the SIGNET research group. I'm also involved in different projects on Intelligent Internet of Things and Deep Reinforcement Learning for information dissemination in vehicular's networks (with Toyota North America).
July 2020 - October 2020
InstaDeep Ltd
Research Intern
At InstaDeep, London (UK), I conducted research on Deep Reinforcement Learning, in particular on Maximum Entropy RL and on the Control as Inference framework.
January 2020 - June 2020
University of Padova
Postgraduate Researcher
Conducting research on machine learning and wireless communications with the SIGNET research group. I'm also involved in different projects on Intelligent Internet of Things and Deep Reinforcement Learning for information dissemination in vehicular's networks (with Toyota North America).
September 2018 - July 2019
École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
SEMP Scholarship Student
Exchange program (1 year) at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - EPFL, Lausanne (Switzerland), where I completed master courses on Machine Learning, Information Theory, Graph and Distributed algorithms.
February 2019 - July 2019
Learn To Forecast - L2F
Master Thesis Project
I developed my master thesis in collaboration with Learn to Forecast, a machine learning startup located at the EPFL Innovation Park, Lausanne (Switzerland). By exlpoiting diffusion processes on graphs and simplicial complexes, I developed a novel method to embed nodes, edges and higher order cliques into low-dimensional spaces.
Sept. 2017 - Sept. 2019
University of Padova
MSc. in Telecommunications Engineering
Brand new master degree in ICT Engineering where I studied Wireless Communications and Networks, Machine Learning and Data Analysis, Stochastic Processes and Network Science. Graduated Summa cum Laude.
Sept. 2014 - Sept. 2017
University of Padova
BSc. in Information Engineering
Completed theoretical courses on Mathematical Analysis, Linear Algebra, Physics, Probability and fundamentals of Computer Science, Electronics and Control Theory. For my bachelor thesis I studied stochastic models for DNA sequences analysis. Final mark 110/110.