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General Information

Full Name Alessandro Marin Vargas
Date of Birth 10th January 1995
Languages Italian

Education

  • 2020 -
    PhD student
    EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
    • Modeling the sensorimotor system through deep learning techniques.
  • 2019
    M.Sc in Bionics Engineering
    Scuola Superiore Sant Anna & University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy
    • Master thesis carried out in the Harvey lab at Harvard Medical School in collaboration with Dr. Panzeri and supervised by Dr. Mazzoni and Prof. Micera.

Experience

  • 2020
    Research fellow
    Neural computation lab, Italian Institute of Technology, Rovereto (IT)
    • Modeling high-dimensional dependencies with non-parametric copula
  • 1933
    Master research fellow - Master’s thesis
    Harvey lab, Neurobiology department, Harvard Medical School, Boston (USA)
    • A novel, efficient and reliable copula algorithm for the study of neural population coding
  • 2019
    Student Intern
    Biorobotics Institute, Scuola Supreriore Sant’Anna, Pisa (IT)
    • Indoor robot magnetic localization
  • 2018
    Student Trainee
    Mechanical Engineering department, University College London, London (UK)
    • Designing 3D printed body-powered prosthetic hands and hydraulic soft-structured sensor

Honors and Awards

  • 2021 -
    • Swiss Government Excellence Scholarship
  • 2019
    • Armenise Harvard Research Fellowship
  • 2018
    • Mentee at LeadTheFuture
  • 2017
    • Scientific degre scholarship
  • 2016
    • Mille e una lode