Luca Baldassarre

Luca Baldassarre received the master’s degree in physics and the Ph.D. degree in machine learning from the University of Genoa, Italy. He was with the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology under the supervision of Prof. V. Cevher on new models for compressive sensing and signal processing, and the development of new optimization algorithms. Here, he filed a patent on a machine learning-based approach for improving the scan-time and reconstruction quality of several imaging methods. He was also with the Department of Computer Science, University College London, where he conducted a Post-Doctoral Research under the supervision of Prof. M. Pontil. He has been leading data science efforts at Gamaya since 2016, a precision agriculture start-up that leverages hyper-spectral imagery, drones and satellites, to help farmers better understand their crops. He published papers in machine learning conferences and journals, with theoretical and computational analyses of new algorithms and a novel application of brain decoding based on fMRI neuroimaging.