Gabriele Franch
Senior Researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler - FBK
Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy
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Top SchoolGabriele Franch is a Senior Researcher and head of the AI for Weather and Climate team at Fondazione Bruno Kessler, combining a decade of expertise in deep learning, geospatial systems, and operational deployment to turn research prototypes into life-saving nowcasting services. He has built and operationalized multiple deep learning forecasting models and nowcasting pipelines used by regional civil protection agencies across Italy and is a scientific lead for EUMETNET’s pan‑European MLCast initiative. Equally comfortable in PyTorch research code and cloud-native production stacks (AWS/Azure, Docker, CI/CD, TDD), he bridges meteorological needs and AI solutions through an extensive network of local, national, and international partners. With a PhD in Computer Science and a background spanning visiting research at Penn State to hands-on GIS and backend development, he uniquely understands both the scientific and operational constraints of weather prediction. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic innovator who focuses on making extreme-weather forecasting practical and usable for forecasters, not just academically novel.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Cum Laude (highest honour), Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Cum Laude (highest honour) at Università di TrentoLaurea Specialistica in scienze e tecnologie informatiche (Master's degree), Data media and Knowledge, Laurea Specialistica in scienze e tecnologie informatiche (Master's degree), Data media and Knowledge at Università degli Studi di Trento
Italian, English, German
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Github Skills (16)
carbon-emissions8
datasets7
pyinstaller4
python3
generative3
python-app3
arxiv3
binaries2
machine-learning2
deep-learning2
pytorch-lightning2
generative-model2
pytorch2
cms1
nuitka1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
MPBA/TAASRAD19
Dec 2019 - Oct 2021
Code release to showcase potential usages of TAASRAD19 Dataset
Contributions:6 commits, 3 PRs, 4 pushes in 1 year 9 months
datasetsshowcasedatasetcarbon-emissions
franchg/pycon9
Apr 2018 - May 2022
Pycon9 demo code and talk about building python app binaries
Contributions:17 PRs, 294 pushes, 534 branches in 4 years 1 month
pythonstickytapepython-appbinariespyinstaller
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