CV
Basics
| Name | Simone Antonelli |
| Label | Ph.D. Student |
| [first].[last]@cispa.de | |
| Summary | My interests lie in the inner workings of neural networks to make their predictions more trustworthy. One focus area of my research is data attribution and (graph-based) machine learning. |
Education
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2022.11 - Present Saarbrücken, Germany
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2019.09 - 2022.01 Rome, Italy
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2016.09 - 2019.12 Rome, Italy
Work
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2024.10 - 2024.12 Remote
Machine Learning Intern
Amboss Technologies
Developed strategies for predicting force closures on the Bitcoin Lightning Network using a temporal graph network (TGN).
- Temporal Predictions on the Lightning Network
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2023.04 - Present Cologne, Germany
Teaching Assistant
University of Cologne
Designed lecture material, homework and in-class sessions for Machine Learning and Advanced ML courses covering topics such as probabilistic inference, generative modelling, robustness and explainability.
- Machine Learning SS 2025
- Advanced Machine Learning WS 2025
- Machine Learning SS 2024
- Advanced Machine Learning WS 2024
- Machine Learning SS 2023
- Guest lecture on Machine Learning libraries (~50 attendees) in Machine Learning SS2024 and SS2025
Publications
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2025.05.01 Foundation Models on a Budget: Approximating Blocks in Large Vision Models
Preprint (under review)
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2024.05.01 Data Valuation for Graphs
Preprint (under review)
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2023.07.01 -
2022.12.01 -
2022.11.01 Few-Shot Object Detection: A Survey
ACM Computing Surveys
Awards
- 2024.08.01
Best Poster Award
ELLIS Doctoral Symposium 2024
- 2021.12.15
Outstanding Graduate Student
Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics and Statistics, Sapienza University of Rome
- 2020.10.01
Excellence Track
Computer Science Department, Sapienza University of Rome
- 2019.09.01
INPS University Scholarship
Istituto Nazionale della Previdenza Sociale (INPS)
Merit-based scholarship (renewed annually until 2021).
Volunteer
Skills
| Programming Languages | |
| Python | |
| C++ | |
| Java |
| Libraries & Frameworks | |
| NumPy | |
| Scikit-learn | |
| Matplotlib | |
| PyTorch | |
| PyTorch Geometric (PyG) | |
| PyTorch Lightning | |
| WandB |
| Tools & Version Control | |
| Git | |
| Docker |
| Other Technologies | |
| Linux | |
| Shell (Bash/Zsh) | |
| Slurm | |
| LaTeX |