Tobia Poppi
PHD Student In Artificial Intelligence at Università di Pisa
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolTobia Poppi is a PhD candidate in Artificial Intelligence at the University of Pisa with a decade of experience applying deep learning to real-world problems, specializing in AI Safety, Responsible AI, and trustworthy generative and multimodal models. He blends academic research with industry practice—having interned at Amazon on Trust & Safety for Prime Video and worked on trustworthy deep generative models at AImageLab—bringing a human-centric lens to technical challenges. His background spans computer vision (including underwater 6D pose estimation) to applied safety work, giving him a rare cross-domain perspective on aligning cutting-edge architectures with ethical constraints. Based in Seattle but educated across Italy and Norway, Tobia pairs rigorous PhD research with hands-on implementation experience, focused on making generative AI both powerful and reliably aligned with societal values.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Norwegian University of Science and TechnologyDiploma Istituto Tecnico e Professionale Informatica e telecomunicazioni, Diploma Istituto Tecnico e Professionale Informatica e telecomunicazioni at Enrico Fermi ModenaMaster's degree Artificial Intelligence Engineering, Master's degree Artificial Intelligence Engineering at Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio EmiliaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Artificial Intelligence at Università di Pisa
English, Italian
Github Skills (17)
crossword7
digital-humanities7
gift7
annotations5
face5
converter4
machine-learning4
coco3
frontend3
computer-vision3
annotate3
pose3
industrial3
object-detection2
3d-models2
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
tobiapoppi/CVCS_project_DeepFake
May 2022 - Jul 2022
Contributions:43 commits, 30 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
tobiapoppi/Multimedia-Data-Processing
Mar 2022 - Jun 2023
Contributions:57 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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