Giuseppe Cuccu
Director at exin.ai
Fribourg - Freiburg, Fribourg, Switzerland
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Top SchoolGiuseppe Cuccu is a director and machine learning researcher with 11 years of experience focused on scaling reinforcement learning for real-world continuous control problems. He leads exin.ai while combining academic roles and research leadership at the University of Fribourg, where he worked on alternative models to neural networks, distributed black-box optimization, and methods for data-scarce settings. His work emphasizes practical scalability: advanced reward shaping, explicit exploration strategies, and meta-search of hyperparameters to push ML from lab to production. He favors architectures with native search, task specialization, richer memory, and interpretability, reflecting a rare blend of systems thinking and theoretical rigor. Based in Fribourg, Switzerland, he translates state-of-the-art ML into deployed solutions and teaching, bridging research, engineering, and education. An uncommon thread in his profile is a long-standing commitment to alternative training paradigms and compute-aware methods rather than incremental neural tweaks.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Université de Fribourg - Universität Freiburg
English, Italian, German, French, sardinian
Github Skills (74)
python10
gymnasium10
torcs10
neuroevolution10
q-learning10
rubynlp10
rubyml10
numpy9
evolutionary-computation9
root-finding9
numba9
gradient-descent9
ruby9
numerics9
scientific-computing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
giuse/tinynet
Jul 2019 - Jul 2022
A tiny neural network library
Contributions:31 commits, 1 PR, 39 pushes in 3 years 1 month
machinelearningtinyneural-networksmachine-learningneuroevolution
giuse/neuroevo
Mar 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:1 commit, 68 pushes, 9 branches in 1 day
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