Simone Bombari

Hi! I am Simone Bombari, thanks for visiting my website!

I am a PhD student at ISTA, happy and lucky to be advised by Professor Marco Mondelli. Right now, I enjoy thinking about research questions connected with deep learning, high dimensional probability, and trustworthy machine learning. For example, I like to think if over-parameterized models trained on high-dimensional data hide some not-necessarily-trivial behavior, with maybe some implications connected to privacy or robustness.

Before joining ISTA I studied Physics at Scuola Normale Superiore and University of Pisa. During my studies, I focused on statistical physics and quantum information. Then, I slowly migrated towards statistics and machine learning.

During my PhD, I had the opportunity to intern as an applied scientist at AWS, and as NLP quant researcher at G Research. Since the fall of 2024, I am supported by a Google PhD fellowship.

During spring and summer 2025, I was a visiting scholar at the University of Southern California, in the groups of Yizhe Zhu and Mahdi Soltanolkotabi.

Of course, I have many interests beyond my research. I have a deep passion for sports, fitness, games and many other things!