Paolo Mandica

I am a Ph.D. candidate in Computer Science at Sapienza University of Rome, where I am part of the Perception and Intelligence Lab led by Prof. Fabio Galasso.
My research centers on deep learning and computer vision, with focus on self-supervised learning, multimodal systems, and active learning leveraging hyperbolic neural networks. Some of my research interests and hands-on experience include: action recognition, domain adaptation, and semantic segmentation.

I hold a Master's degree in Data Science from Sapienza University of Rome, where I graduated in 2021 with top honors (110/110 summa cum laude). Prior to that, I earned my Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Roma Tre University in 2019. During my undergraduate studies, I interned at Claranet IT, where I developed a serverless application for monitoring event-driven architectures on AWS.

In my free time I enjoy photography, cycling, playing the guitar, and working out at the gym. Feel free to check out some of my photos on Unsplash.

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Contact me at paolomandica.p [at] gmail [dot] com

Now

Updated on November 4, 2024, from the PhD lab in Sapienza, Rome.

I finally submitted my PhD thesis and it will now be reviewed by an external committee. The journey is ending at last.
Co-organizing the 23rd International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP 2025) as Local Arrangement Chair.

Research

HALO: Hyperbolic Active Learning for Semantic Segmentation under Domain Shift
L. Franco*, Paolo Mandica*, K. Kallidromitis, YT Li, D. Guillory, T. Darrell, F. Galasso
ICML 2024

[arXiv] [OpenReview] [Github]
Hyperbolic Learning with Multimodal Large Language Models
Paolo Mandica*, L. Franco*, K. Kallidromitis, S. Petryk, F. Galasso
ECCV 2024 - Beyond Euclidean Workshop

[arXiv]
HYSP: HYperbolic Self-Paced Learning for Self-Supervised Skeleton-based Action Representations
L. Franco*, Paolo Mandica*, B. Munjal, F. Galasso
ICLR 2023

[arXiv] [OpenReview] [Github]

* indicates equal contribution

Activities

Teaching assistant for these Master's degree courses in Data Science at Sapienza University:

Reviewer for the following conferences and journals:

Participated at the these events:

ECCV 2024 - European Conference on Computer Vision - Milan, Italy
ICML 2024 - International Conference on Machine Learning - Vienna, Austria
CVPR 2023 - Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition Conference - Vancouver, Canada
ICVSS 2022 - International Computer Vision Summer School - Scicli (RG), Italy