Curriculum Vitae
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Education and academic positions
| Since Sept. 2011: | Scientific software developer at Enthought, Ltd. |
| 2008 - 2011: | Postdoc Research Fellow at Fiser Lab, Center for Complex Systems, Brandeis University |
| 2005 - 2008: | Senior Research Fellow at Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London (UCL). |
| 2001 - 2006: | PhD in Biophysics at the Neural Computation Research Group of the Institute for Theoretical Biology (ITB), Berlin, with Laurenz Wiskott. |
| May-Aug. 2001: | Diploma thesis in Neuroinformatics at the Institute for Neuroinformatics (INI), Zurich, with Konrad Koerding and Peter Koenig. |
| 2000-2001: | Part-time work as research assistant at the Institute of Virtual Manufacturing (IVP), Zurich, with Andreas Unterkircher and Prof. J. Reissner. |
| 1996-2001: | Diploma (MSc equivalent) in Mathematics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich. |
Professional activities
| Mar. 2010: | Workshop organizer, The sampling hypothesis: relating neural variability to perception and learning, Cosyne 2010, Salt Lake City, UT. (with M. Lengyel and J. Fiser) |
| Dec. 2009: | Reviewer for Cosyne 10, Salt Lake City, UT. |
| June 2009: | Program committee member for BCCN 09, Frankfurt, Germany. |
| Apr. 2008: | Reviewer for the workshop Inference and estimation in probabilistic time-series models, Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, UK. |
| Dec. 2007: | Workshop organizer, Beyond Simple Cells: Probabilistic models for visual cortical processing, NIPS, Vancouver. (with R. Turner and M. Sahani) |
| Sept. 2007: | Symposium organizer, Neural representation of objects in the inferior temporal cortex, EBBS meeting, Trieste. (with Y. Roudi) |
| Aug. 2007: | Workshop organizer, Advanced probabilistic techniques workshop, Gatsby, London. (with R. Turner) |
| Reviewer: | PLoS Computational Biology, Journal of Neurophysiology, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Neural Computation, Frontiers in Neuroscience, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Networks: Computation in Neural Systems |
Awards
| 2010: | Royal Society International Travel Grant, for a collaboration with Dr. R. Trotta, Imperial College, London, UK |
| 2008: | 3-years fellowship for advanced researchers, Swiss National Science Foundation |
| March 2008: | Royal Society Conference Grant |
Teaching experience
| Nov. 2010: | Guest lecturer for the Advanced topics in cognitive modeling class at Brandeis University |
| Oct. 2010: | Lecturer at the Advanced scientific programming in Python autumn school in Trento, Italy |
| Sept. 2009: | Lecturer at the Advanced scientific programming in Python summer school in Berlin, Germany |
| 2001-2003: | Guest lecturer (3 lectures) and tutor at Humboldt University (HU), Berlin, in Mathematics for Biologists. |
| 1998-2001: | Tutor at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, in Geometry and Algebra I/II. |
| 1997: | Two weeks substitute teaching in Mathematics at a secondary school, Chiasso (Switzerland). |
Skills
| Languages: | Italian: mother language English, French, German: fluent |
| Programming languages: | Python, Java, Jython, C, C++, ActionScript 3 |
| Scientific software: | Matlab, SciPy, OpenDX |
Other activities
| Apr. 2005 - Jul. 2005: | Participation to the seminar "Advanced Concepts and Techniques in Software Development" at the Humboldt University, Berlin. |
| Apr. 2005: | Participation to Salone Satellite (international design fair) in Milan with Clara Gaggero, where we presented the CONTATTO lighting system. Nominated by Design Report Award 2005. |
| Nov. 2002 - Feb. 2003: | Participation to the seminar "Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse patent verwertet" ("Patents and scientific results") at the Technical University, Berlin. |
| 1995: | Participation to the Computing and Communication Camp (C3) at the Swiss Center for Scientific Computing (SCSC), Manno, with a small project on Genetic Programming. |