Simone Scardapane

Simone Scardapane is a passionate researcher specializing in machine learning, particularly in deep networks and activation functions. Currently serving as an assistant professor at Sapienza University in Rome, Simone's prior experience includes a post-doctoral position at the same institution and an honorary research fellowship at the CogBID laboratory at the University of Stirling, UK. He actively advocates for machine learning by organizing events, giving speeches, and hosting hackathons. Simone is also a proud co-founder of the Italian Association for Machine Learning, a non-profit organization dedicated to disseminating machine learning concepts to the broader public. Additionally, he co-organizes the Rome Machine Learning & Data Science Meetup and sits on the advisory board for Codemotion Italy. In recognition of his expertise, Simone was certified as a Google Developer Expert for machine learning in 2017.