1. No category

Marco Fraccaro
Cognitive Systems, DTU Compute
Technical University of Denmark (DTU)
DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark
Mobile: +45 91940660
e-mail: [email protected]
Date of Birth: 25/10/1989 in Padova (Italy)
Nationality: Italian
Education
10/2014–Now
PhD student in Machine Learning at the Technical University of Denmark
(DTU). The main research topics are Bayesian inference and recommender
systems. The PhD is financed by Microsoft Research Cambridge through its
PhD Scolarship Programme.
Supervisors: Ole Winther (DTU) and Ulrich Paquet (Microsoft Research).
09/2011–10/2014
M.Sc. in Telecommunications.
Università degli Studi di Padova (UNIPD) - Italy. Grade: 110/110 cum Laude.
08/2012–08/2014
M.Sc. in Mathematical Modelling and Computation.
Technical University of Denmark (DTU) - Denmark. Grade: 12/12.
07/2014
Microsoft Research PhD summer school, 30 June-04 July, Microsoft Research,
Cambridge (England).
07/2013
European Summer School in Industrial Mathematics (ESSIM) and Modelling
Week, 14-28 July, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Madrid (Spain).
09/2008–07/2011
B.Sc. in Information Engineering.
Università degli Studi di Padova (UNIPD) - Italy. Grade: 110/110 cum Laude.
Work Experiences
07/2013–Now
Consultant at IHPostal A/S.
I am developing a system for automatic postage stamp and text recognition.
The work involves mainly Machine Learning and Image Analysis.
2009–2012
Private lessons to undergraduate students.
The main topics were Mathematics and Digital Signal Processing.
2008–2012
Coordinator of kids’ Summer Camps.
Publications
[1] M. Fraccaro. Learning to index. Master thesis, Technical University of Denmark, 2014.
[2] G. Marin, M. Fraccaro, M. Donadeo, F. Dominio, P. Zanuttigh. Palm area detection for reliable
hand gesture recognition. Proceedings of IEEE MMSP 2013, Pula, Italy, 2013.
[3] M. Barros, J. Candal, G. Dolle, S. Emanuelsson, M. Fraccaro, A. Gracheva, C. Ludwig. Modelling of Human-Arm Kinematics. Technical report for ESSIM 2013, Madrid, Spain.
Computer skills and competences
Matlab (with GPU Computing), R, SAS, Java, GIT, Latex, Microsoft Office
1
Languages
Italian
Native speaker
English
Fluent, TOEFL iBT 09/2011 (score 108/120)
Spanish
Fluent
French
Intermediate
Danish
Basic
Personal interests
Technology, sports (basketball, football, skiing, cycling and running), travelling, music.
Copenhagen, 06 January 2015
2