Andrea Zugarini

Andrea Zugarini

PhD Student in Articial Intelligence

SAILab - University of Siena

About me

In 2021 I received my PhD in Smart Computing defending the thesis: “Language Models for Understanding and Generation”. I received my Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (Ingegneria Informatica) at University of Florence. In April 2017, I obtained the Master’s Degree with honors in Computer and Automation Engineering at University of Siena.

Interests

  • Natural Language Processing
  • Language Generation
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Language Model Compression

Education

  • PhD in Smart Computing, 2021

    University of Florence and Siena

  • MSc in Computer and Automation Engineering, 2017

    University of Siena

  • BSc in Computer Engineering, 2014

    University of Florence

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

R&D

Expert.ai

Feb 2021 – Present Siena, Italy
 
 
 
 
 

Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon

Amazon Alexa

May 2020 – Aug 2020 Turin, Italy
 
 
 
 
 

Internship as software engineer

QuestIT S.r.l.

Jun 2017 – Oct 2017 Siena, Italy
 
 
 
 
 

Research Fellowship

University of Siena

May 2016 – Apr 2017 Siena, Italy
 
 
 
 
 

Web Developer

Frosini Pietre

Jun 2014 – Dec 2014 Lastra a Signa (FI), Italy

Accomplish­ments

Soccer DataChallenge Hackathon

Soccer Data Challenge Oct 2018

Hackathon Mediaset Infinity

Infinity Jun 2018

Projects

Vulgaris

Analysis of the diachronic evolution and variance of the vulgar italian language

Neural Poetry

Generation of tercets with the style of the Italian poet Dante Alighieri

Learning Epidemiological Models

Learning of time-variant coefficients of compartmental for COVID-19 forecasting

Recent Publications

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An Optimal Control Approach to Learning in SIDARTHE Epidemic model

The COVID-19 outbreak has stimulated the interest in the proposal of novel epidemiological models to predict the course of the epidemic …
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An Optimal Control Approach to Learning in SIDARTHE Epidemic model

Vulgaris: Analysis of a Corpus for Middle-Age Varieties of Italian Language

Italian is a Romance language that has its roots in Vulgar Latin. The birth of the modern Italian started in Tuscany around the 14th …
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Vulgaris: Analysis of a Corpus for Middle-Age Varieties of Italian Language

An Unsupervised Character-Aware Neural Approach to Word and Context Representation Learning

We consider a scenario where an artificial agent is reading a stream of text composed of a set of narrations, and it is informed about …
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An Unsupervised Character-Aware Neural Approach to Word and Context Representation Learning

Combining deep learning and symbolic processing for extracting knowledge from raw text

This paper faces the problem of extracting knowledge from raw text. We present a deep architecture in the framework of Learning from …

Learning in Text Streams: Discovery and Disambiguation of Entity and Relation Instances

We consider a scenario where an artificial agent is reading a stream of text composed of a set of narrations, and it is informed about …
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