Scholar
Diego Antognini
Google Scholar ID: YvtRscgAAAAJ
Google DeepMind
Citations & Impact
Citations
998
H-index
13
i10-index
15
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume
Academic Achievements
- Published multiple papers and patents; Given talks at MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab and NLP Meetup in Zürich; Won a $10k prize at the IARPA Geopolitical Forecasting Challenge 2018.
Research Experience
- Tech Lead & Senior AI/ML Researcher at Google DeepMind; Research Scientist at IBM Research and MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab, focusing on LLM alignment and efficient NLP; Lecturer and module head at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences (HSLU), teaching advanced generative AI and deep learning for NLP at the M.Sc. level.
Education
- Ph.D. in Computer Science from EPFL, under the supervision of Prof. Boi Faltings. Thesis titled 'Textual Explanations and Critiques in Recommendation Systems'.
Background
- Interests in generative AI, LLM alignment, multimodal, iterative refinement, efficient ML, NLP, self-supervision, and conversational explainable recommendation. Tech Lead & Senior AI/ML Researcher at Google DeepMind, specializing in enhancing multimodal large language models.
Miscellany
- Selected as an alumni for the next bachelor enrollment campaign by HE-Arc University of Applied Sciences; Attending ICLR 2025 to discuss current research directions; Participating in the Google DeepMind workshop at AMLD - Applied Machine Learning Days 2025.