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Luca Scimeca

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Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
📍 United States

Luca is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Yoshua Bengios group at Mila, focusing on generative AI for drug discovery and robotics. A Cambridge PhD graduate with postdoctoral experience at Harvard, colleagues praise his "exceptional knowledge" and "extraordinary ability. " His research spans computational biology, computer vision, and multimodal learning.

Luca has won multiple robotics awards, including first place in the Robot Rescue Simulation League at RoboCup and a special award for industrial manipulation at the World Robotics Summit in Tokyo.

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Experience
8 Years
Current Role
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
United States
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Priorities

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Generative AI Models
His most recent work and publications for major conferences like ICLR and NeurIPS are heavily focused on advancing Diffusion Models for complex inference tasks.
AI for Drug Discovery
He applies machine learning to synthetic biology, immunology, and virology, devising models for genomic sequence generation to aid in cancer therapies.
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Career

Work history

7-2023
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Mila - Quebec Artificial Intelligence Institute
8-2021 - 7-2023
Postdoctoral Research Fellow [ML\Bio]
Harvard University
4-2021 - 10-2021
AI Research Scientist (visiting)
NAVER Corp
10-2020 - 3-2021
Postdoctoral Research Associate [ML\Robotics]
University of Cambridge
10-2017 - 9-2020
Ph.D. Candidate in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
University of Cambridge
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Education
10-2017 - 10-2020
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
University of Cambridge
2019 - 2019
Brains
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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