Served as program chair for ICLR in 2017 and 2018, and for NeurIPS in 2020; Served as general chair for NeurIPS in 2021; Co-organized several workshops at major machine learning and computer vision conferences.
Research Experience
Worked as a postdoc in Prof. Geoffrey Hinton's lab from 2009 to 2011; Joined the Google Brain team as one of its very early members in 2011; Became a founding member of the Facebook AI Research lab in 2013; Has been leading the continual learning team at Google DeepMind in London since August 2021.
Education
Graduated from the University of Padova, Italy, in Electronics Engineering; Pursued a Ph.D. in Computer Science at New York University under Prof. Yann LeCun from 2004 to 2009.
Background
Interested in Machine Learning, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, and more broadly, Artificial Intelligence. His long-term goal is to enable machines to learn more efficiently and with less supervision by transferring and accruing knowledge over time.