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May 8, 2023 On behalf of the LHCb Simulation Project, I have given a talk at CHEP 2023 on the LHCb ultra-fast simulation framework Lamarr. Here is my contribution [public access].
May 8, 2023 Attendance to the 26th International Conference on Computing in High Energy & Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2023).
May 4, 2023 :tada: Our workshop proposal of Beyond Vision: Physics meets AI (BVPAI) has been provisionally accepted for ICIAP 2023!
Jan 13, 2023 :memo: I have submitted a paper to arXiv for the first time.
Nov 28, 2022 Attendance to the 4th International School on Open Science Cloud (SOSC 2022). The theme of the School has been “Computing Models for Scientific Experiments”.
Nov 24, 2022 I have given a talk at the Third ML-INFN Hackathon on bayesian optimization and on the Hopaas toolkit. Here is my contribution [public access].
Nov 22, 2022 Together with Francesco Vasselli, we have discussed an introduction to generative models during the Third ML-INFN Hackathon. Here is our contribution [public access].
Oct 26, 2022 On behalf of the LHCb Simulation Project, I have presented a poster at ACAT 2022 on Lamarr, the LHCb Ultra-Fast Simulation framework. Here is my contribution [public access].
Oct 26, 2022 I have presented a poster at ACAT 2022 on distributing hyperparameter optimization campaigns via HTTP requests through Hopaas. Here is my contribution [public access].
Oct 24, 2022 Attendance to the 21st International Workshop on Advanced Computing and Analysis Techniques in Physics Research (ACAT 2022).
Oct 3, 2022 :man_technologist: It’s my turn as LHCb DQCS shifter during the week of 3-9 October!
Sep 14, 2022 I have given a talk at the 108th SIF National Congress on the classification of mediastinal lymphomas using Radiomics and Machine Learning. Here is my contribution [public access].
Aug 18, 2022 I have given a talk at the 4th European Congress of Medical Physics on the classification of mediastinal bulky lymphomas through radiomic features and Machine Learning techniques.
Jul 18, 2022 I have reported the ongoing activities in preparation for Run 3 on offline computing and simulation at the LHCb Italia Collaboration Meeting. Here are the slides [restricted access].
Jul 8, 2022 Our work on the new LHCb framework named Lamarr has been presented by Lucio Anderlini at ICHEP 2022. Here is our contribution [public access].
May 27, 2022 Our work on Ultra-Fast Simulation of the LHCb experiment has joint the poster session of PM2021 attended by Fedor Ratnikov. Here is our contribution [public access].
Apr 29, 2022 On behalf of the LHCb Simulation Project, I have given a talk at the Learning To Discover conference about generative models for simulation. Here is my contribution [public access].
Mar 4, 2022 :trophy: My Master Thesis discussed in June 2020 won the “Giulia Vita Finzi” award as the best thesis on computing and networks of INFN.
Jan 31, 2022 :man_technologist: It’s my turn as LHCb DQCS shifter from 31 January to 6 February!
Nov 30, 2021 Our work on GAN-based approach to simulate the RICH sub-detectors in LHCb has been presented by Sergei Mokhnenko at ACAT 2021. Here is our contribution [public access].
Nov 26, 2021 Our work on the deployment of Machine Learning models as binaries has been presented by Lucio Anderlini at the Computational Tools for High Energy Physics and Cosmology workshop. Here is our contribution [public access].
Nov 22, 2021 I have given a talk at the LPCC Fast Detector Simulation Workshop on hyperparameters fine-tuning powered by OptunAPI. Here are the slides [public access].
Nov 8, 2021 :memo: The first paper with my name in the LHCb author list has been publicated on JHEP.
Oct 18, 2021 First lecture of a series prepared to introduce Python for scientific computing to the students of Physics Laboratory 3 @ UniFi.
Oct 18, 2021 :man_technologist: It’s my turn as LHCb DQCS shifter during the week of 18-24 October!
Oct 8, 2021 I have discussed a brief report on classification of mediastinal bulky lymphomas with Machine Learning techniques at the ML_INFN meeting. Here are the slides [public access].
Sep 13, 2021 I have given a talk at the 107th SIF National Congress on the use of GANs for Ultra-Fast Simulation of the LHCb detector.
Sep 7, 2021 I have presented a seminar at the INFN-Firenze Division Council on the use of GANs for Ultra-Fast Simulation of the LHCb detector. Here are the slides [restricted access].
Jul 28, 2021 :memo: The first paper with my name in the LHCb author list is now on arXiv.
Jul 27, 2021 Our work on the official Ultra-Fast Simulation framework in LHCb (named Lamarr) has been presented by Adam Davis to the LHCb Collaboration. Here are the slides [restricted access].
Jun 24, 2021 On behalf of the INFN, I have helped in writing a science book for Sassi Junior about “inventions”. I have prepared the part dedicated to Artificial Intelligence, enhancing the key role that plays for scientific research. The book is available in Italian, English and French.
Jun 21, 2021 :man_technologist: It’s my turn as LHCb DQCS shifter during the week of 21-27 June!
Jun 14, 2021 Attendance to the 8th Thematic CERN School of Computing (tCSC spring 2021). The theme of the School has been “Scientific Software for Heterogeneous Architectures”.
Jun 7, 2021 Attendance to the First ML-INFN Hackathon with a focus on Medical Physics applications.
May 27, 2021 I have given a talk at WS CCR: 24-28 May 2021 on the use of GANs for Ultra-Fast Simulation of the LHCb detector. Here is my contribution [public access].
May 24, 2021 OptunAPI v0.1.0 has been released
May 1, 2021 :memo: I have officially become author for the LHCb Collaboration!
Apr 28, 2021 Together with Lucio Anderlini, we have reported the deployment in AWS of some LHCb use-cases for the CloudBank EU initiative. Here is our contribution [restricted access].
Mar 29, 2021 :man_technologist: It’s my turn as LHCb DQCS shifter from 29 March to 4 April!
Mar 8, 2021 Our work on the use of Machine Learning techniques for Ultra-Fast Simulation of the LHCb detector has been presented by Lucio Anderlini to the LHCb Statistics and Machine Learning Working Group. Here are the slides [restricted access].
Nov 1, 2020 :tada: I have officially started my PhD @ UniFi!
Sep 30, 2020 I won the INFN scholarship of the PhD program in Smart Computing @ UniFi for applying Machine Learning techniques to Medical Physics, Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics.
Jul 20, 2020 Attendance to the 2nd Summer School in Physical Sensing and Processing. The aim of the school has been the introduction and discussion about different sensing devices, DAQ systems and data processing strategies across various Physics subdomains.
Jun 12, 2020 :mortar_board: I have received the Master’s degree in Particle Physics!
Feb 3, 2020 I have discussed a brief review on strategies to improve the training of Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN) at the ML_INFN meeting. Here are the slides [public access].
May 29, 2019 Attendance to the Artificial Intelligence in Health and Well-Being workshop.
Mar 18, 2019 I have been selected by the INFN (thanks to a project named “La Fisica delle Particelle per esplorare l’Universo”) to pass three months at CERN to develop generative models useful for the simulation framework of LHCb.
Sep 20, 2017 :mortar_board: I have received the Bachelor’s degree in Physics and Astrophysics!
Apr 28, 2017 I won a scholarship funded by the University of Florence to carry on part of my Bachelor thesis work at CERN.
Jun 8, 2014 :tada: First time at CERN!