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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2025.07.01 Node-Level Data Valuation on Graphs
TMLR 2025
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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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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 |