Nicola Messina
Postdoctoral Researcher at Institute of Information Science and Technologies
Massa-Carrara, Tuscany, Italy
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Top SchoolNicola Messina is a postdoctoral researcher at ISTI-CNR in Pisa, bringing nine years of experience at the intersection of computer vision and deep learning. He holds an M.Sc. in Computer Engineering and a Ph.D. in Information Engineering from the University of Pisa, and focuses on Transformer-based architectures for efficient cross-modal analysis of text, images, and video. His work spans relational understanding in multimedia, attentive models for anomaly detection and abstract visual reasoning, and applied surveillance video analysis. Passionate about the “secrets of intelligence,” he also explores links to computer graphics, which informs his approach to visual representation and synthesis. Based in Tuscany, he blends rigorous academic training with hands-on research that targets both theoretical advances and practical multimodal systems.
9 years of coding experience
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Information Engineering at Università di Pisa
English, Italian
Github Skills (35)
encoder10
stylegan10
machine-learning10
clip10
image-text10
visual-question-answering10
graph-algorithms9
pytorch9
multimodal9
graph-visualization9
deep-learning9
graph-theory9
complex-networks9
computer-vision9
python8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
mesnico/MemePersuasionDetection
Jan 2021 - Jan 2023
Deep learning methods for detecting persuasion techniques in memes
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years
deep-learning
mesnico/TERN
Apr 2020 - Jan 2023
Code and Resources for the Transformer Encoder Reasoning Network (TERN) - https://arxiv.org/abs/2004.09144
Contributions:13 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 9 months
encoder
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