Postdoc • Penn
ndf96@seas.upenn.edu
I am a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, where I work under the supervision of Prof. George Pappas.
My research interest is at the intersection of communication networks and machine learning. I obtained my PhD from University of Padova, where I was advised by Prof. Luca Schenato and co-advised by Prof. Michele Rossi. During my PhD, my focus has been on studying the convergence properties of frameworks in which multiple agents cooperate to solve a machine learning (ML) or reinforcement learning (RL) problem by communicating with a central coordinator, in what is called the Federated Learning (FL) paradigm. Some of the research questions I tried to answer have been: can we get superlinear convergence in FL in a communication-efficient way? Is cooperation beneficial in federated RL when communication is subject to constraints? The typical fields of application of these studies are, for example, in large-scale distributed ML, FL over wireless networks, ML and RL algorithms trained from decentralized data at the network edge and 6G systems. Check out my Google Scholar profile for my recent publications!
