“I am always doing what I can't do yet,
in order to learn how to do it”
- Vincent van Gogh -
Sara Scaramuccia
My current project is mainly rooted in topological data analysis - TDA - thus aiming at developing new methods in computational topology to provide qualitative understanding of data.
The project is developed in partnership with the Department of Mathematical Sciences of the Politecnico di Torino and with the SmartData@PoliTO center. The latter is deeply involved into thorough applications of TDA to several industrial problems, e.g. anomaly detection in mechanical and civil engineering, smart building modeling and simulation, analysis of system of fractures coming from geophysics.
My role is that of exploiting algebraic topology tools in combination with learning theory, exploring the mathematical foundations in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
From 2019 to 2020, I have been postdoc fellow at the Université de la Côte d’Azur. My project wa in parternship with Amadeus SA and it consisted in developing new clustering algorithms guided by user feedbacks, to optimize clustering quality in the specific domain of flight recommendations by means of Active Learning techniques.
In 2018, I got my PhD in Computer Science at University of Genova, Italy.
The project was focused on computational methods and data structures for Topological Data Analysis:
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optimized algorithms for the retrieval of multidimensional persistent homology invariants
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multidimensional segmentation of domains via discrete Morse theory
EDUCATION
ph.d. in computer science
university of genova, italy
3 years course
November 2014 - May 2018
m.sc. in mathematics
university of genova, italy
2 years course
2011 - 2013
llp erasmus programme
university of bergen, norway
1 year long
2012 - 2013
b.sc. in mathematics
university of genova, italy
3 years course
2007 - 2011
CONFERENCES
siggraph asia 2016 - symposium on visualization
co-author and speaker,
A discrete morse-based approach to multivariate data analysis
macau, china
december 7-8, 2016
stag2016 - italian eurographic chapter
smart tools and apps in computer graphics
genova, italy
october 3-4, 2016
co-author of a presented work,
Persistent homology: a step-by-step introduction for newcomers
imr - 25th international meshing roundtable
co-author of a presented work,
Computing shape descriptors based on vector-valued functions
washington, dc, usa
september 27-30, 2016
workshop: applications and statistics of multidimensional persistent homology
lausanne, switzerland
august 22-26, 2016
Poster presentation,
Towards the Analysis of Multivariate Data via Discrete Morse Theory
atmcs7 - applied topology: methods, computations and science
torino, italy
july 25-29, 2016
Poster presentation,
Towards the Analysis of Multivariate Data via Discrete Morse Theory
yrf-socg2016 - computational geometry: young researchers forum
boston, ma, usa
june 14-18, 2016
co-author of a presented work,
Towards the Analysis of Multivariate Data via Discrete Morse Theory
SCHOOLS
scgp - spring school on discrete and computational geometr
stonybrook, ny, usa
april 17-21, 2017
cat-school - computational algebraic topology and
ati scoping workshop
oxford, uk
september 7-11, 2015
biss2015 - bertinoro international spring school
bertinoro (fc), italy
march 9-13, 2015
htca2015 - homology: theoretical and computational aspects
genova, italy
february 9-13, 2015
GRANTS
ph.d. fellowship from the university of genova, italy
3 years
november 2014 - november 2017
MEMBERSHIPS
Student member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
since november, 2017
associate member of the london mathematical society
since october, 2015