Matilde Padovano

Stanford, Intern at DeepMind, Forbes 100 Under 30 Italia, Co-founder LeadTheFuture

Greater Cambridge Area

About

Incoming Stanford PhD student Graduated in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge, thesis ranked in the top 5 of the year Google Brain intern in summer 2020 DeepMind Intern in summer 2019 Google Intern in summer 2018 Co-founder of LeadTheFuture In the Forbes Italia 100 Under 30 Class of 2020 Google Women Techmakers Scholar

Experience

  • Machine Learning Researcher at Jane Street
    Oct 2022 - Present · 3 yrs 10 mos

  • Co-Founder at LeadTheFuture Mentorship
    Sep 2016 - Present · 9 yrs 11 mos

    LeadTheFuture is a non-profit organization with the goal of helping talented Italian students in STEM to achieve their potential. Each selected university or high school student is paired with a mentor with similar interests and international experience. Today LeadTheFuture counts more than 140 mentors and mentees who belong to institutions like Google, Stanford, NASA, Apple, Cambridge, Harvard, Normale di Pisa and many others, besides having won international medals at Mathematics, Physics, Informatics, Chemistry and Astrophysics Olympiads.

  • Quantitive Trader Intern at Jane Street
    Jun 2021 - Sep 2021 · 4 mos

  • Research Intern @ Google Brain at Google
    Jun 2020 - Jan 2021 · 8 mos

    The main focus of the project was applying Graph Neural Networks in Robotics and RL, supervised by Marcin Andrychowicz and Raphael Marinier.

  • Intern at DeepMind
    Jun 2019 - Sep 2019 · 4 mos

    Coauthor of 2 papers submitted to the Graph Representation Learning workshop at NeurIPS 2019 (Accepted, https://grlearning.github.io/papers/88.pdf) and ICLR 2020 (Accepted, https://arxiv.org/abs/1910.10593). The research consisted of demonstrating the performance that GNN architectures obtain when imitating individual steps of classical graph algorithms and how this correlates with their structure.