rocco.di_tella at cfa.harvard.edu
I use tools Machine Learning and Statistics for Neuroscience and Astrophysics.
My current projects are in the context of AstroAI, Harvard & Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
MSc in Data Science from Universidad de Buenos Aires.
Currently based in Boston.
Ongoing Projects
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Multi Modal Galaxies | AstroAI, Harvard Center for Astrophysics
Experiments on Transformer-based Flow Matching to generate multimodal joint distributions.
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Honest LLMs through introspection | AI Safety Argentina \& ICC
Statistically sound measures of LLM confidence with probes.
Past projects
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Visual Attention | Kreiman Lab, Harvard Medical School
Do Neural Networks implicitly model Human visual attention?
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Active Learning for more efficient LLM rankings | ICC
Leveraging statistical active learning to make more efficient LLM comparisons
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Fast non-parametric Bayesian algorithm for more efficient online experiments | Nueroscience Lab, UTDT
A very fast algorithm that enables experiments to optimize their tasks on the fly
Teaching
- Course coming up this August: Machine Learning for Astrophysics | UBA
- Three separate graduate courses on: Statistics, Bayesian Statistics, Causal Inference | UBA
- One very hands on course on Machine Learning | UdeSA
Non-academic science writing
(In spanish)