Joining Fraunhofer Italia

A few days ago I officially joined Fraunhofer Italia as an Applied AI Researcher. Fraunhofer is Europe's largest organization for applied research (yes, the same institution that co-developed the MP3 format), and Fraunhofer Italia is its branch here in Bolzano, based at the NOI Techpark, bringing that same industry-facing, applied research approach to South Tyrol.

I've joined the M.IN.D. (Machine Intelligence Development) team, whose job is to take state-of-the-art machine learning methods and turn them into things that actually work on real, messy, real-world computer vision problems, not just benchmarks in a paper. Expect a lot of rigorous, reproducible evaluation along the way: I've never been a fan of results that only work once, on someone's laptop, under perfect lighting.

Desk claimed, badge sorted out, first meetings done.

More on what I'm actually building soon, once there's something worth showing.