CV
Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data
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- place of birth: Torino, Italy
- date of birth: 13/07/1993
- citizenship: Italian
- work address: Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux énergies alternatives, DRT/LIST/DIASI/SIALV/LVML, Bât. 861 p. 42, F-91120 Palaiseau, France
- research interests: machine learning, artificial intelligence, computer vision, data science, spectroscopy, chemometrics, geometry, field theory
Work Experience
I am a permanent Research Scientist at the Direction de la recherche tecnologique (DRT/LIST/DIASI/SIALV/LVML) for AI applications to physical data.
- 12/2022 - present: Research Engineer, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux énergies Alternatives (LVML), Saclay, France.
- 09/2022 - 12/2022: Postdoctoral Researcher, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux énergies Alternatives (LVML), Saclay, France.
- 02/2021 - 08/2022: Postdoctoral Researcher, Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique et aux énergies Alternatives (LANIE and LVML), Saclay, France.
- 10/2017 - 12/2020: Ph.D. Graduate Researcher, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy.
- 10/2017 - 12/2020: Scientific Associate Researcher, I.N.F.N. - sezione di Torino, Torino, Italy.
- 10/2018 - 07/2020: Teaching Assistant, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy.
Education
I graduated in Physics and Astrophysics on 18th December 2020 with the thesis D-branes and Deep Learning: Theoretical and Computational Aspects In String Theory under the advisory of Prof. Igor Pesando.
- 10/2017 - 12/2020: Ph.D. Fellowship in Physics and Astrophysics, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy.
- 10/2015 - 10/2017: M.Sc. in Physics, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy.
- 10/2012 - 07/2015: B.Sc. in Physics, Università degli Studi di Torino, Torino, Italy.
Reviewing Activity
- 2023 - present: Expert for the French National Agency for Research
- 2022 - present: Referee for Machine Learning: Science and Technology
- 2022 - present: Referee for Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy
Organization
- 06/2023: At the interface of physics, mathematics and artificial intelligence, workshop, Pollica, Italy
Fellowships, Grants and Distinctions
- 2023: EU funding for the COST Action CA22130 - Comprehensive Multiboson Experiment-Theory Action (COMETA) [member of the Management Committee]
- 2020: grant as teaching assistant at the Università degli Studi di Torino (6 months, from 01/2020)
- 2019: student elected in the Department Council as Ph.D. representative
- 2018: student elected in the Department Council as Ph.D. representative
- 2017: Ph.D. scholarship assigned by the Università degli Studi di Torino (3 years, from 10/2017)
Coursework and Certifications
- 12/2020: Reinforcement Learning, U. of Alberta (4 courses via Coursera.org - credential ID: X6QTKFZDEGB2)
- 10/2020: Data Science Specialization, John Hopkins U. (10 courses via Coursera.org - credential ID: QDGGFSKG8VVS)
- 06/2020: AI for Medicine, deeplearning.ai (3 courses via Coursera.org - credential ID: ZXW8Y3UU4UCY)
- 05/2020: Deep Learning, deeplearning.ai (5 courses via Coursera.org - credential ID: N2FWFZ9W42V2)
- 04/2020: Machine Learning, U. of Standford (1 course via Coursera.org - credential ID: SDLSE9NP4XMH)
Summer and Winter Schools
- 07/2021: IDAI 2021 - First Inria-DFKI European Summer School on AI, online
- 12/2018: LACES 2018 – Lezioni Avanzate di Campi e Stringhe, Firenze, Italy
- 01/2018: GGI Lectures on the Theory of Fundamental Interactions, Firenze, Italy
- 12/2017: LACES 2017 – Lezioni Avanzate di Campi e Stringhe, Firenze, Italy
Publications
H. Erbin, R. Finotello, B. W. Kpera, V. Lahoche, D. Ousmane Samary. 'Functional renormalization group for signal detection and stochastic ergodicity breaking'. arXiv:2310.07499.
H. Erbin, R. Finotello, Deep Learning Complete Intersection Calabi–Yau Manifolds. In Machine Learning in Pure Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, World Scientific, pp. 151-181 (2023), edited by Y.-H. He
T. Völker et al. 'Interlaboratory comparison for quantitative chlorine analysis in cement pastes with laser induced breakdown spectroscopy'. Spectrochim. Acta B, 202, 106632.
H. Erbin, R. Finotello, 'Deep Learning Complete Intersection Calabi–Yau Manifolds', in Machine Learning in Pure Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, pp. 151-181 (2023), World Scientific, edited by Y.-H. He.
R. Finotello, D. L'Hermite, C. Quéré, B. Rouge, M. Tamaazousti, J.-B. Sirven. 'Trustworthiness of Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy Predictions via Simulation-based Synthetic Data Augmentation and Multitask Learning'. arXiv:2210.03762.
R. Finotello, M. Tamaazousti, J.-B. Sirven. 'HyperPCA: a Powerful Tool to Extract Elemental Maps from Noisy Data Obtained in LIBS Mapping of Materials'. Spectrochim. Acta B: At. Spectrosc., 192 (2022), 106418.
H. Erbin, R. Finotello, R. Schneider, M. Tamaazousti. 'Deep Multi-task Mining Calabi-Yau Four-folds'. Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. 3 01500.
R. Finotello, I. Pesando. '2D Fermion on the Strip with Boundary Defects as a CFT with Excited Spin Fields'. Nucl.Phys.B 969 (2021) 115464
H. Erbin, R. Finotello. 'Machine Learning for Complete Intersection Calabi-Yau Manifolds: a Methodological Study'. Phys.Rev.D 103 (2021) 12, 126014
H. Erbin, R. Finotello. 'Inception Neural Network for Complete Intersection Calabi-Yau 3-folds'. Mach. Learn.: Sci. Technol. 2 02LT03.
A. Arduino, R. Finotello, I. Pesando. 'On the Origin of Divergences in Time-dependent Orbifolds'. Eur. Phys. J. C 80 (2020), p. 476.
R. Finotello, I. Pesando. 'The Classical Solution for the Bosonic String in the Presence of three D-branes Rotated by Arbitrary SO(4) Elements'. Nucl. Phys. B 941 (2019), pp. 158-194.
Talks and Seminars
July 05, 2023
Talk at SFPT-GH 2023, Paris, France
June 13, 2023
Poster at ANIMMA 2023, Lucca, Italy
December 03, 2022
Poster at NeurIPS 2022 (workshop Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences), Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, USA (hybrid)
October 15, 2022
Talk at Séminaire LVML, Palaiseau, France
June 15, 2022
Talk at Webinaire AllegrIA, Saclay, France
May 16, 2022
Poster at Journées Scientifiques de l’ISAS, Saclay, France
April 27, 2022
Talk at Learning to Discover 2022, Orsay, France
December 22, 2021
Lecture at XVII Avogadro Meeting, Firenze, Italy
November 30, 2021
Talk at EMSLIBS 2021, Online session
August 26, 2021
Talk at DANGER Workshop, Online session
July 20, 2021
Poster at IDAI 2021, Online session
May 27, 2021
Talk at Pop Science Encounters for High Schools, Online Session
May 05, 2021
Talk at Seminari di Algebra e Geometria Algebrica - Dipartimento di Matematica dell'Università di Torino, Online session
March 11, 2021
Talk at ISAS seminars - CEA, Paris-Saclay, Saclay, France
December 21, 2020
Talk at XVI Avogadro Meeting, Online session
May 27, 2020
Poster at Cortona Young 2020, Online session
December 19, 2019
Poster at XV Avogadro Meeting - Università Federico II, Napoli, Italy
September 30, 2019
Talk at Ph.D. midterm seminar - UniTO, Torino, Italy
Teaching and Outreach Activity
Language Skills
- Italian: native speaker
- English: proficient user (certifications: FCE pass with A, EFCELT at level C2)
- French: current level
IT Skills
- programming languages: Python, R, C++, ROOT, PHP, Javascript, SQL, bash, Matlab/Octave, Maxima, Wolfram Language, Java
- markup languages: HTML, Markdown, RMarkdown
- operating systems: Ubuntu (main distribution), Arch Linux, Debian, CentOS, Microsoft Windows
- shells: bash, zsh, PowerShell
- deep learning ecosystem: Detectron2, PyTorch, PyTorch Geometric, PyTorch Lightning, JAX, Tensorflow, Keras, Optuna, Scikit-optimize
- data analysis ecosystem: Scipy/Numpy/Sympy ecosystem, Pandas, Statsmodels, Scikit-learn, LightGBM, XGBoost, Tidyr, Caret, Leaflet, Plotly, GMP, MPFR
- visualization: Matplotlib, Seaborn, Plotly, Open3D, Tensorboard, Tidyr, Caret, Leaflet
- frameworks: Jupyter Lab and Notebook, RStudio, wxMaxima, Mathematica for scientific programming; VIM (with plugins), Eclipse for software developments; Git for version control; GitBook for documentation
- system administration: personal instance of Nextcloud on a Raspberry Pi server (Raspbian OS), administration and web design of the journal club webpage (https://torinophd.ddns.net/) on a Raspberry Pi Apache+PHP+MariaDB installation (GitHub)
- other certifications: ECDL Core Full (European Computer Driving Licence, 04/2012)