ABOUT ELIA

I'm a math kid with a background in computer science.

  • I got to work and study in top institutions around the world,
  • I'm focused on working on interesting problems at the intersection of mathematics, computer science, and finance.

I love meeting interesting individuals working on interesting problems.

contact me at: elia [dot] zontaa [at] gmail.com

EXPERIENCE

Bosch Research

Research Engineer Intern

San Francisco (remote), USA

  • Data preprocessing and feature engineering pipelines for Graph Machine Learning on GPUs
  • Spatio-temporal graph neural networks (PyTorch + CUDA + Bash)

Cornell University

Visiting Researcher

Ithaca, NY, USA

  • Distributed Graph Algorithms on Multi-GPUs for High-Performance Machine Learning (Prof. Giulia Guidi)
  • Analysis and benchmarking of large-scale graph algorithms on Multi-GPU clusters
  • Contributions to novel graph routines (C/C++ + CUDA + bash/SLURM/OpenPBS + Python)

Pirelli & C. S.p.A.

Data Scientist Intern

Milan, Italy

  • High-dimensional data preprocessing pipelines
  • Outliers classifier development and deployment
  • Pipeline automation and monitoring (Python + Airflow)

Forschungszentrum Jülich

Research Intern

Jülich, Germany

  • Data-driven & data-free (Physics informed) Graph Neural Networks
  • Graph Convolution Networks for CFD simulations (OpenFOAM)

Fondazione Bruno Kessler

Research Intern

Trento, Italy

  • EdgeAI inference
  • TinyML models deployment on microcontrollers
  • (Tiny) Graph Convolution Networks for object detection

EDUCATION

Polytechnic University of Turin

M.Eng. Applied Mathematics (Mathematical Engineering)

Turin, Italy

  • Research Assistant
  • Stochastic Processes, Computational Statistics, Deterministic & Stochastic Optimization, ...

Cornell University - University of Trento

B.Eng. Computer Science & Engineering

Ithaca, NY - Trento, Italy

  • Tuition merit & Research Thesis scholarship
  • Attended MSc/PhD level computer science and math courses as a 1st & 2nd year undergraduate

E. Fermi Institute

High School

Bassano del Grappa, Italy

Graduated top of class with a focus on Math, Physics, and Computer Science.

Interests

  • •Apart from chaotic systems and game theory, I like running, swimming and applied gravity sports (I lift weights).
  • •Fluent in Italian, English, and python.
  • •Hablo español sin problema, je parle un peu de français, und ich verstehe Deutsch nur wenn er nett ist.