Sandro Pezzelle

Education

Nov 2015 - ongoing: PhD in Cognitive and Brain Sciences at CLIC Lab at Center for Mind/Brain Sciences (CIMeC), University of Trento, Italy. Supervisor: Raffaella Bernardi. Oversight Committee: Raffaella Bernardi, Manuela Piazza, Roberto Zamparelli, Marco Baroni (former).
2012-2015: MSc in Linguistics at DISLL, University of Padova, Italy. Master thesis: Generating Meaning Representations for Compound Words: A new Perspective from Compositional Distributional Semantics. Supervisors: Marco Marelli (CIMeC, Unitn), Laura Vanelli (DISLL, Unipd). Grade: 110/110 cum laude.
2009-2012: BSc in Modern Literature at DISLL, University of Padova, Italy. Bachelor thesis: Lorenzo Da Ponte: Metro e Stile delle Poesie del Periodo Americano. Supervisor: Luca Zuliani (DISLL, Unipd). Grade: 110/110 cum laude.

June 2018-ongoing: Research intern at SAP Machine Learning, Berlin, Germany.
Feb-Jun 2017: Part-time Language Specialist at Appen.
2010-2014: Newspaper Contributor at Corriere del Veneto and Corriere Innovazione.
2011-2014: Book reviewer and contributor at SulRomanzo literary blog and webzine.

Nov 2017: Lab session on DISSECT toolkit at MSc Computational Linguistics 17-18 (Lecturer: R. Bernardi), University of Trento. [notes8nov] [notes9nov] [bin2pkl] [vectors] [hands-on]

2018: Reviewer for *SEM2018 co-located with NAACL-HLT2018, EMNLP2018, SiVL co-located with ECCV2018
2017: Publication Chair of *SEM2017 co-located with ACL2017
2017: Reviewer for ESSLLI2017 Student Session

2017. STSM Grant by COST Action IC1307 for a 35-day research period at UvA, The Netherlands
2017. COST Action IC1307 travel grant for iV&L Training School 2017, Athens, Greece
2017. EACL 2017 Studentship, Valencia, Spain
2016. COST Action IC1307 travel grant for VL'16 at ACL 2016, Berlin, Germany
2016. EUREGIO grant covering all expenses for ESSLLI 2016, Bolzano, Italy
2014. ERASMUS Program Scholarship for 6-month exchange at UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium