Physicist, University of Bologna
I listen for gravitational waves in the noise that hides them.
Notes from a physicist who travels: talks and lectures, the places the work takes me, photographs, and old data-science tutorials I still get emails about.
Recent talksData never lie.
GW150914 — the first gravitational wave ever recorded, 14 September 2015.
What is on this site
everything academic sits on my university page
My TEDx talk
TEDx, schools, universities and newsrooms. A good part of my year is spent explaining this work to people who did not study physics.
Prague Magic in Every Corner
Conferences, the places around them, and the pictures I take there.
A photographer for passion
A selection of my photographs.
Lecture II: Stochastic process
Kaggle notebooks and signal-processing lessons from the 2010s. Old, but still working.
Talks and outreach
recordings of recent talksA good part of my year is spent explaining gravitational waves to people who did not study physics: students, teachers, journalists. Here are the recordings worth your time.
My TEDx talk
It was a wonderful experience. I met so many wonderful people, the organisers of TEDx Putignano were spectacular, the atmosphere,…
1st Conference on Machine Learning for Gravitational Waves, Geophysics, Robotics, Control System for CA17137
The 1th Conference on Machine Learning for Gravitational Waves, Geophysics, Robotics and Control System of the Cost Action 17137 will be…
The travelling scientist
recent tripsNotes and pictures from the places the work takes me, written once the sessions are over.
Prague Magic in Every Corner
Extremely grateful for the invitation to speak at the AI&GW@CZ Workshop in Prague. Spending the day at the Czech Academy of Sciences…
Vienna Vibes and Alpine Highs
A journey through the heart of Central Europe, starting from the imperial halls of Vienna. Here, the highlight was the Belvedere Museum,…
The North Sea: Around Ostend
A few days spent at the BND Graduate School 2024 (Sept 2–12) at Corsendonk Duinse Polders. Between lectures, I took the time…
The archive
written years ago, still onlineWritten while I was competing on Kaggle. People still find them useful, so they stay online.
2020
Lecture I: Signal Detection
Optimal filter in Stationary and Gaussian noise
2020
Machine Learning supervised classification to disentangle gravitational wave signals from noise events
Internship@EGO The Virgo interferometer is the most sensitive gravitational-wave detector in Europe. It was…
2018
University of Washington, Seattle
Here in Seattle to give an invited talk at Connecting the Dots 2018 conference…
2018
Alternating Least Squares (ALS) Spark ML
Alternating Least Squares (ALS) for Santander Kaggle competition The Kaggle Santander competition just concluded.…
2016
Install JVM xgboost package
Install JVM xgboost package to interface to Apache Spark For a complete guide and…
2016