Simone Scardapane
Tenure-track Assistant Professor at Machine Learning & Data Science Meetup Roma
Rome, Lazio, Italy
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Top SchoolSimone Scardapane is a tenure-track Assistant Professor at Sapienza University in Rome, specializing in machine learning with a focus on deep networks and activation functions. With over a decade of research and teaching experience, he combines rigorous academic credentials—a PhD in machine learning and top grades in Computer Science and AI—with practical exposure from international visits to Tohoku and La Trobe and a year as a software developer. He is deeply committed to public engagement and community building: co-founder of the Italian Association for Machine Learning, co-organizer of the Rome Machine Learning & Data Science Meetup, and an advisor for Codemotion Italy. Certified as a Google Developer Expert in 2017, he blends research, outreach, and applied work in computational intelligence and signal processing. Colleagues describe him as someone who makes complex ML concepts accessible through events, hackathons, and clear communication, bridging the gap between cutting-edge research and public understanding.
12 years of coding experience
Engineering Summer School 2010 - Robotics, Rescue Robotics, Humanoid Robotics, Space Robotics, Robotics Locomotion, Engineering Summer School 2010 - Robotics, Rescue Robotics, Humanoid Robotics, Space Robotics, Robotics Locomotion at Tohoku UniversityHigh school diploma, Scientific, High school diploma, Scientific at European School (Brussels I)Master, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, 110/110 Cum Laude, Master, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, 110/110 Cum Laude at Sapienza Università di RomaBachelor, Computer Science, 110/110 Cum Laude, Bachelor, Computer Science, 110/110 Cum Laude at Università degli Studi di Roma TreHonorary Visitor, Supervised machine learning, Honorary Visitor, Supervised machine learning at La Trobe University
Italian, French, English
Github Skills (33)
activation-function10
python10
matlab10
machine-learning9
tensorflow9
neural-network9
deep-learning9
deep-neural-networks8
kernel8
ml8
pytorch8
data-science7
jax7
jit6
time-series-forecasting6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ispamm/Lynx-Toolbox
Mar 2014 - May 2016
Lynx Matlab Toolbox
Contributions:114 commits in 2 years 2 months
matlab
ispamm/kernel-activation-functions
Nov 2017 - Jun 2019
Several implementations of the kernel-based activation functions
Contributions:16 commits in 1 year 7 months
activation-functionkernel
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