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

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.

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).

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. 

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).

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. 

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. 

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.

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.