Donato Crisostomi

Donato Crisostomi

Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science

Sapienza University of Rome

Biography

I am a 3rd year Ph.D. student in Computer Science at Sapienza University of Rome, where I am part of the GLADIA research group, led by prof. Emanuele Rodolà.

I believe curiosity to have a primary role in guiding research, and hence I am always looking forward to explore new directions in my field. My background includes hands-on research experience in Natural Language Understanding, Computer Vision and Geometric Deep Learning. Some of my more stable interests include frontier Machine Learning themes such as Model Merging, Representational Aligment and Graph Representation Learning.

I wholeheartedly advocate for cleaner code in ML, as complexity should not be fought with more complexity. Maybe unsurprisingly at this point, I really enjoy coding. Funnily enough, I enjoy it so much that I often code as a mean to get away from a tiring day of coding.

In my (too little) free time, I enjoy throwing away my laptop to reconnect with nature through hiking and/or camping. Finally, like most of the humans on this planet, I enjoy travelling and good food.

Interests
  • Model Merging
  • Graph Representation Learning
  • Multi-Modality
  • Few-Shot Learning
  • Natural Language Understanding
Education
  • Ph.D. in Computer Science, present

    Sapienza University of Rome

  • MS.c. in Computer Science, 2021

    Sapienza University of Rome

    110/110 with honours | GPA 30.5/31

  • BS.c. in Computer Science, 2019

    Sapienza University of Rome

    110/110 with honours | GPA 29.6/31

News

My Cycle-Consistent Multi-Model Merging paper has been accepted at NeurIPS 2024! 🎉
The 2nd edition of our UniReps workshop on Unifying Representations in Neural Models was accepted at NeurIPS 2024! See you in Vancouver 🇨🇦
Co-Founded TrueSound to supercharge musicians with state-of-the-art AI tools! 🚀
Our UniReps workshop on Unifying Representations in Neural Models was accepted at NeurIPS 2023! See you in New Orleans 🇺🇸
I’ll be visiting the University of Cambridge for three months to do research on multi-modality!
I’ll be a week in the UK to visit the University of Cambridge, University of Oxford, Imperial College, DeepMind and AutoDesk!
I won the Mobility Funding from my faculty, ranking first among all candidates!
Released a new website for my research group, check it out at GLADIA!
Our work on Few-Shot Graph Classification has been accepted to Learning on Graphs (LoG)!
My project “Few-Shot Molecular Property Prediction” was granted the “Kickstarting Research” funding, first among 1st and 2nd year Ph.D. CS students!
I’ll be an Applied Science intern at Amazon in Luxembourg, investigating NLU and Knowledge Graphs!
Our survey on Few-Shot Object Detection has just been published to ACM Computing Surveys!
I successfully earned my MSc degree with a perfect score of 110/100 with honours – a testament to hard work and dedication!
I won the Ph.D. Scholarship in Computer Science at the Sapienza, University of Rome, ranking first among all the candidates!
I’ll be carrying a Research Science internship at Amazon Alexa, working on cutting-edge NLP research in Turin!
I was awarded with the first place in the Honour Programme in Computer Science from Sapienza, University of Rome!

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Amazon Search
Applied Scientist Intern
Amazon Search
Jun 2022 – Dec 2022 Luxembourg
  • Undertook research on Knowledge Graphs and Natural Language Understanding;
  • Designed novel Deep Learning models for Query Understanding.
 
 
 
 
 
Sapienza, University of Rome
Teaching Assistant
Sapienza, University of Rome
Feb 2022 – Jun 2022 Rome
  • Lecturer and mentor for the Deep Learning MSc course.
 
 
 
 
 
Amazon Alexa
Research Scientist Intern
Amazon Alexa
May 2021 – Nov 2021 Turin
  • Conducted Natural Language Understanding research for Alexa;
  • Reduced training times by up to 90% by designing a novel deduplication technique.
 
 
 
 
 
Sapienza, University of Rome
Competitive Programming Mentor
Sapienza, University of Rome
Sep 2020 – Oct 2020 Rome
  • Gave lectures for a prep course for the Italian Olympiads of Informatics
  • Assisted the students to efficiently solve computer science problems

Recent Publications

Accomplish­ments

“International Mobility” funding
I was awarded funding to research Multi-Modality and Explainable AI at the University of Cambridge, ranking first among all the candidates.
“Kickstarting Research” funding
I was awarded funding to research Few-Shot Molecular Property Prediction, ranking first among 1st and 2nd year Ph.D. students from the Department of Computer Science.
Showcased on Amazon Science
My story was showcased on Amazon Science after a successful research internship in Turin.
Doctoral Fellowship
I won the Ph.D. Scholarship in Computer Science at the Sapienza, University of Rome, ranking first among all the candidates.
Honours Programme in Computer Science
Awarded the first place in the Honour Programme in Computer Science to conduct research on Meta-Learning and Few-Shot Learning.