{"id":232,"date":"2023-01-10T15:39:11","date_gmt":"2023-01-10T14:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ai-lab.units.it\/?page_id=232"},"modified":"2024-01-17T15:10:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-17T14:10:43","slug":"emanuele-ballarin","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ai-lab.units.it\/?page_id=232","title":{"rendered":"Emanuele Ballarin"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" src=\"https:\/\/ai-lab.units.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/emanuele_ballarin_new.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-852\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ai-lab.units.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/emanuele_ballarin_new.png 240w, https:\/\/ai-lab.units.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/emanuele_ballarin_new-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:19px\">I am a second-year PhD student in <em><a href=\"https:\/\/adsai.units.it\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/adsai.units.it\/\">Applied Data Science and Artificial Intelligence<\/a><\/em>, working on deep learning methods more directly inspired by neurobiology and neuropsychology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:19px\">Currently, I am applying such techniques (mostly in the form of unsupervised generative modelling and implicit manifold learning) to the improvement of efficiency, effectiveness, and adversarial robustness of neural image classifiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:19px\">Other research interests of mine broadly include science and theory of deep neural networks, trustworthy artificial intelligence without explicit specifications, kernel methods in deep learning, and computational neuroscience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:19px\">I am supervised by Prof. <a href=\"https:\/\/ai-lab.units.it\/?page_id=139\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/ai-lab.units.it\/?page_id=139\">Luca Bortolussi<\/a> and collaborate with Prof. <a href=\"https:\/\/anselmi34.wixsite.com\/fabio-anselmi\">Fabio Anselmi<\/a> and Dott. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.areasciencepark.it\/piattaforme-tecnologiche-update-2023\/il-team\/alessio-ansuini\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.areasciencepark.it\/piattaforme-tecnologiche-update-2023\/il-team\/alessio-ansuini\/\">Alessio Ansuini<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.areasciencepark.it\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.areasciencepark.it\/\">AREA Science Park<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:19px\">Before that, I earned a M.Sc. in <em><a href=\"http:\/\/dssc.units.it\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"dssc.units.it\">Data Science and Scientific Computing<\/a><\/em> and a B.Sc. in <a href=\"https:\/\/df.units.it\/en\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/df.units.it\/en\">Physics<\/a>, both from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.units.it\/en\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.units.it\/en\">University of Trieste<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:19px\">In my spare time, you can find me wielding a tennis racket, listening to music, or <em><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/emaballarin\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/github.com\/emaballarin\">open-sourcing<\/a><\/em> useless stuff (the first and the last usually not together \ud83d\ude43).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"font-size:18px\">Email: <a href=\"mailto:emanuele@ballarin.cc\">emanuele@ballarin.cc<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ballarin.cc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ai-lab.units.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/website_blue.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-450\" width=\"49\" height=\"49\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/emaballarin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ai-lab.units.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/icons8-linkedin-90-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-338\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/emaballarin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ai-lab.units.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/github_blue-1_fixed-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-452\" width=\"50\" height=\"50\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am a second-year PhD student in Applied Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, working on deep learning methods more directly inspired by neurobiology and neuropsychology. Currently, I am applying such techniques (mostly in the form of unsupervised generative modelling and implicit manifold learning) to the improvement of efficiency, effectiveness, and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/ai-lab.units.it\/?page_id=232\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":127,"featured_media":0,"parent":10,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-232","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ai-lab.units.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ai-lab.units.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ai-lab.units.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ai-lab.units.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/127"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ai-lab.units.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=232"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/ai-lab.units.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/232\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":957,"href":"https:\/\/ai-lab.units.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/232\/revisions\/957"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ai-lab.units.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ai-lab.units.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}