About me

Hi! I'm a PhD student in Computer Science at the Università della Svizzera italiana under the supervision of prof. Michael Bronstein.
My research interests lie in the field of 3D shape analysis and synthesis, with a preference for approaches inspired by geometric intuitions. Recently, my research focussed on merging spectral approaches and machine learning techniques to develop novel algorithms for 3D shape analysis. A notable example includes the first intrinsic extension of the popular Convolutional Neural Networks paradigm to non-Euclidean domains.
Other works includes a novel solution to the inverse problem of shape synthesis from intrinsic operators and efficient geodesic-free algorithms to compute canonical shapes.
If you want to know more about me, you can have a look to my cv.
Hi! I'm a PhD student in Computer Science at the Università della Svizzera italiana under the supervision of prof. Michael Bronstein.
My research interests lie in the field of 3D shape analysis and synthesis, with a preference for approaches inspired by geometric intuitions. Recently, my research focussed on merging spectral approaches and machine learning techniques to develop novel algorithms for 3D shape analysis. A notable example includes the first intrinsic extension of the popular Convolutional Neural Networks paradigm to non-Euclidean domains.
Other works includes a novel solution to the inverse problem of shape synthesis from intrinsic operators and efficient geodesic-free algorithms to compute canonical shapes.
If you want to know more about me, you can have a look to my cv.

Contacts

Università della Svizzera Italiana
Faculty of Informatics
Institute of Computational Science
via Giuseppe Buffi, 13
Lugano, Switzerland
office: LAB building, 2nd floor
tel: +41 58 666 4853
e-mail: name dot surname at usi dot ch
Università della Svizzera Italiana
Faculty of Informatics
Institute of Computational Science
via Giuseppe Buffi, 13
Lugano, Switzerland
office: LAB building, 2nd floor
tel: +41 58 666 4853
e-mail: name dot surname at usi dot ch

News (scroll to see older news)

Jul, 2017
Apr, 2017
Feb, 2017
  • The paper "Geometric deep learning on graphs and manifolds using mixture model CNNs" has been accepted at CVPR 2017 (selected for oral presentation)
  • I successfully defended my dissertation proposal about "Deep learning for shape analysis"
  • Talk at IMATI (CNR Genova) on "Geometric deep learning for shape analysis". Invited by Michela Spagnuolo
  • Reviewer for Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics (TVCG) and "IPSJ Transactions on Computer Vision and Applications" journals
  • For the spring semester I will be TA of "Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition" (course taught by prof. Michael Bronstein)
Jan, 2017
Nov, 2016
  • New technical report "Geometric deep learning on graphs and manifolds using mixture model CNNs" available at arXiv:1611.08402
Sep, 2016
Aug, 2016
  • The paper "Learning shape correspondence with anisotropic convolutional neural networks" has been accepted at NIPS 2016
Jul, 2016
May, 2016
  • Reviewer for NIPS 2016
  • New technical report "Learning shape correspondence with anisotropic convolutional neural networks" available at arXiv:1605.06437
  • Our EG16 tutorial on "Deep learning for shape analysis" reached the record for the most registrations: > 100 (~30% of the participants)! It seems that the topic starts to attract graphics community as well
Jan, 2016
  • The paper "Anisotropic Diffusion Descriptors" has been accepted at Eurographics 2016
  • The US patent "A system and a method for learning features on geometric domains" has been filed
  • Reviewer for the The Visual Computer journal (TVCJ)
Dec, 2015
  • We will give a tutorial about "Deep Learning for Shape Analysis" at Eurographics 2016
Oct, 2015
Sep, 2015
Jun, 2015
Feb, 2015
  • I successfully discussed my research prospectus about "Inverse problems for shape synthesis"
  • Reviewer for SIGGRAPH 2015
Jan, 2015
Nov, 2014
  • Talk on "Shape-from-operator: recovering shapes from intrinsic operators" at TUM, Munich, Germany. Invited by dr. Emanuele Rodolà. Slides available in talks
Sep, 2014
  • Student volunteer at ECCV 2014, Zurich, Switzerland
  • For the fall semester I will be TA of Computer Graphics (course taught by prof. Kai Hormann)
Aug, 2014
  • Talk on "Shape-from-operator: recovering shapes from intrinsic operators" at ICS retreat, Disentis, Switzerland. Slides available in talks
Jun, 2014
  • New technical report "Shape-from-intrinsic operator" available at arXiv:1406.1925
  • Lecture "Introduction to Informatics" at middle school in Tesserete, Switzerland, with prof. Matthias Hauswirth. If you are interested, you can find more information here
May, 2014
  • New poster "Shape Coulombization" accepted at ICVSS 2014 (International Computer Vision Summer School)
Apr, 2014
  • My application to ICVSS 2014 (International Computer Vision Summer School) has been accepted
Mar, 2014
  • New journal paper "A sparse coding approach for local-to-global 3D shape description" to be published in The Visual Computer, Springer
Feb, 2014
  • A new publication has been accepted at 3DOR 2014: "Coulomb shapes: using electrostatic forces for deformation invariant shape representation". Now my Erdős number is 4!
  • For the spring semester, I will be TA of Geometric Image Processing and Computer Vision (course taught by prof. Michael Bronstein)
Sep, 2013
  • For the fall semester, I will be TA of Calculus (course taught by prof. Kai Hormann)
Mar, 2013
  • The paper "Local signature quantization by sparse coding" has been accepted at 3DOR 2013

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