Program
| 10:00-11.00 T024 room (ground floor) | Talk: “Inspire and be inspired: make the best of your PhD and build an impactful future” Francesco Visin, Senior Research Scientist, Google DeepMind |
| 11:00-11:30 | coffee break (Zero Pensieri Bistrot) |
| 11.30-12:45 Sala Seminari (first floor) | Poster Session 1 |
| 12:45-14:15 | light lunch (Zero Pensieri Bistrot) |
| 14:15-15:30 Sala Seminari (first floor) | Poster Session 2 |
| 15:30-16.00 | coffee break (Zero Pensieri Bistrot) |
| 16:00-17:15 Sala Seminari (first floor) | Poster Session 3 |
| 17.15 | closing toast (Zero Pensieri Bistrot) |
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Poster Session 1 (morning 11:30-12:45) |
Poster Session 2 (afternoon 14:15-15:30) |
Poster Session 3 (afternoon 16:00-17:15) |
| Andena Riccardo Armanini Justin D’Antona Salvatore Fregosi Caterina Grossi Alessandra Locatelli Marco Magazzù Giuseppe Maltagliati Jacopo Masserini Elena Olearo Lorenzo Riccardi Brian Sokli Effrosyni |
Barbera Thomas Bochicchio Matteo Canesi Gabriele Child Matteo Robert Di Marco Federico Erba Sandro Morano Francesco Muddle Joseph Piazzalunga Mattia Papaleo Enea Raffaele Ilario Riva Alessandro Viganò Giulio |
Cogo Luca De Pellegrin Alessio Ghilardi Davide Maccarone Francesca Marino Mario Monti Davide Petriglia Emanuele Piazza Marco Refolli Francesco Rigamonti Giorgia Tirico Andrea |
All posters will be available
Invited Talk
(morning 10:00-11:00)
SPEAKER Francesco Visin
TITLE Inspire and be inspired: make the best of your PhD and build an impactful future
SHORT ABSTRACT
The greatest value of my PhD lay in the invisible skills I developed. Knowledge is ephemeral, but the mindset stuck with me forever. There is a lot of rethoric about resilience, but what does it mean in practice?
And how can you leverage a PhD to build a career of significant and sustained impact? How can you land a job in the most hyped industry in the world? And do you want to?
This talk will cover some insights and personal reflections on 15 years of research in AI, transitioning from academia to industry, and from pure research to building products for billions of users. I will address how persistence, purpose and resilience model subsequent careers, and the realities of navigating impostor syndrome and burnout. I will also touch on the ethical responsibilities we carry as researchers, and the importance of ensuring our work has a positive impact on society.
SHORT BIO
Francesco Visin is a Senior Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, where his work focuses on the development of the Gemma open-weights models, and recently led the releases of Gemma 3 270M and FunctionGemma. An alumnus of Università Milano-Bicocca, he holds a PhD from Politecnico di Milano during which he visited MILA, in Canada, for 1.5 years. His research career spans a variety of topics, including model-based reinforcement learning, meta- and continual-learning, computer vision, and now LLMs. Outside his primary research, Francesco is a co-founder of the Mediterranean Machine Learning (M2L) Summer School, which provides access to state-of-the-art AI research and promotes networking in the Mediterranean region.
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