Alessandro Checco
PhD
Summary
Mathematical engineer, particularly interested in graph theory, Markov chains, stochastic processes and randomised optmisation algorithms.
Currently working on privacy issues in recommender systems.
Also interested in high performance parallel computing and big data analysis.
Interests
Algorithm Design
Design, convergence rate and complexity analysis of decentralised algorithms on graphs.
Convex Optimisation
Convex optimisation, with application to discrete problems. Numerical methods for approximate solution of optimisation problems.
Data Mining
Monte Carlo Markov chains techniques for data mining and feature selection, applied to medical diagnostic and artificial olfaction.
Matrix Factorisation
Probabilistic matrix factorisation applied to recommender systems, with focus on privacy issues.
Network
Simulation
Event-based simulators design for wireless network analysis.
Data Analysis
Statistical inference, Bayesian modelling and exploratory data analysis, with focus on big data.
Programming
- Python
- Matlab
- Ruby
- C++
- NS2
- R
- Linux
- LaTeX
- Git
Academic
Statistics and Computer Science Department,
Trinity College Dublin
Postdoc
2014-
My research is currently focused on recommender systems and probabilistic matrix factorisation.
Hamilton
Institute,
National University of Ireland Maynooth
PhD - Mathematics of Future Wireless Networks
2010-2014
Design of decentralised algorithms applied to channel/code selection in wireless network or local topology discovery in cellular networks and convex optimisation applied to throughput fairness of 802.11 mesh networks.
Bell Laboratories Ireland
Internship
2011-2012
Research on small cell networks (femtocells) with particular interest in scrambling code selection.
University of Roma "Tor Vergata"
Master of Mathematical Engineering
2010
I graduated with great distinction (110/110 summa cum laude). Thesis title: Monte Carlo Markov Chain methods for the approximate solutions of feature selection problems.
Universiteit Gent
Erasmus Scholarship at the Department of Telecommunications and Information Processing
2009
University of Roma "Tor Vergata"
Bachelor of Mathematical Engineering
2007
I graduated with great distinction (110/110 summa cum laude). Thesis title: Wavelet analysis for recognition of form document images with complicated background.
Publications
Other
Privacy Enhanced Recommender System
Patent
2015
Under way
Hamilton Institute
Seminar Organisation
2012-2014
Organisation of Hamilton Institute seminars, available here.
Connections
- Department of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona.
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven.
- Department of Mathematics, University of Rome "Tor Vergata".
- I am a member of AIRO (Italian Operational Research Society)
- I am in the program committee of the International Workshop on Cyber Crime (IWCC 2015)
Download CV in PDF
Alessandro Checco — checcoa@tcd.ie — +353 85 1648160