Hi, I’m Paolo! I’m a PhD candidate at Politecnico di Milano. My current research focuses on continual learning and multimodal models, with a particular interest in how their scaling properties affect learning and knowledge transfer.
During my PhD, I also worked extensively on perception and mapping for autonomous driving.
More about me
I am a PhD candidate in Computer Science and Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, part of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Lab (AIRLab) and advised by Prof. Matteo Matteucci. My current research focuses on continual learning, with interests in multimodality and large-scale models. In 2024, I visited Mila - Quebec AI Institute to work on large-scale foundation models with Prof. Irina Rish and CERC-AAI Lab, with whom I still collaborate. During my PhD, I worked extensively on autonomous driving research, particularly focusing on perception and mapping of road features. I obtained a MSc in Computer Science and Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2019, and in the same year, a MSc in Computer Science from McMaster University, Canada. During that time, I collaborated on AV perception systems with the Centre for Mechatronics and Hybrid Technologies (CMHT) in Hamilton, ON, and the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano. Over the years, I’ve contributed to several projects on autonomous driving and agricultural robotics, with publications in leading conferences and journals in the field. I earned my BSc in Computer Science and Engineering from Politecnico di Milano in 2016.
News
May 2025 — I’ve been working on my PhD thesis for the past few months, and I will be submitting it in June! I’ve also been cooking in the image generation space, will be sharing more updates asap!
29 Jul 2024 — I will be at CoLLAs 2024 presenting our paper “The Empirical Impact of Forgetting and Transfer in Continual Visual Odometry”. Check out our paper page!
15 Jul 2024 — Just got back from my visit at Mila - Quebec AI Institute! It’s been an incredible 3 months working on large scale multimodal continual learning with CERC-AAI! Works are still in progress, stay tuned!
25 Apr 2024 — Our paper “The Empirical Impact of Forgetting and Transfer in Continual Visual Odometry” was accepted at CoLLAs!
Apr 2024 — I will be visiting the CERC-AAI Lab at Mila - Quebec AI Institute until July 2024.
30 Mar 2024 — One paper accepted at IV!
15 Mar 2024 — Two papers1, 2 accepted at IJCNN!
21 Dec 2023 — Our RAS journal paper on automating HD maps creation for autonomous vehicles has been published.
24 Sep 2023 — I will be at ITSC in Bilbao, Spain all week with 3 works1, 2, 3 on autonomous vehicles and continual learning!
12 Sep 2023 — Cristian Sbrolli will present our work CISPc at ICIAP 2023 in Udine, Italy!
4 Sep 2023 — Two of our MSc students presented their works in agricultural robotics at the ECMR DeepField Workshop.
30 Jul 2023 — Coming back from a great summer school experience at ESSAI 2023 in Ljubljana, Slovenia! Enjoyed all the week-long classes in Lifelong & Continual Learning, AutoML, and Causality!
15 Jul 2023 — Just back from the International Computer Vision Summer School (ICVSS 2023) in Sicily, Italy! Great week-long immersion in computer vision, listening to inspiring speakers and having stimulating conversations with fellow students from all over the world!
Jun 2023 — Our team AIRLab Polimi positioned 3rd in Sensing at the robotics competition International Field Robot Event (FRE) 2023 in Maribor, Slovenia!