Paolo Didier Alfano
About Me
My name is Paolo Didier Alfano
I am a machine learning postdoctoral researcher at Italian Institute of Technology (IIT), under the supervision of Lorenzo Rosasco and Francesca Odone.
Over the past five years, I have been focusing on machine learning methodologies with resource constraints. Recently, my research has also delved into diffusion models tailored for applications in robotics.
I completed my Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Genoa in 2023, working on machine learning methodologies applied to image analysis. Since the beginning of my Ph.D. I am affiliated to the MaLGa research group.
You can contact me on my personal email, paolo "dot" alfano "at" iit "dot" it
Updates
- 12/01/2025: our paper, Sim2Surf: a Sim2Real Surface Classifier for Vision-Based Tactile Sensors with a Bilevel Adaptation Pipeline got accepted at the IEEE Sensors Journal
- 14/11/2024: I've presented the Gaussian Splatting approach at the IIT Computer Vision reading group. Slides are available here
- 29/01/2024: our paper, Sim2Real Bilevel Adaptation for Object Surface Classification using Vision-Based Tactile Sensors got accepted at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2024
- 21/12/2023: our paper, Top-tuning: A study on transfer learning for an efficient alternative to fine tuning for image classification with fast kernel methods got accepted at the ImaVis journal, volume 142.
- 30/05/2023: Ph.D. defense at the Genoa University. Slides are available here, while the full thesis can be found here