Pietro Michiardi
Full Professor at EURECOM
Biot, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
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Top SchoolPietro Michiardi is a Full Professor and head of the Data Science Department at EURECOM with 14 years of academic experience and a strong foundation in both computer science and electrical engineering. He blends theoretical research and systems work to design scalable machine learning algorithms, with particular strengths in representation learning, generative models, and computationally efficient Bayesian inference. His research agenda spans applications in anomaly detection, computer vision and automotive/ICT industries, grounded in a long history of work on distributed systems, performance evaluation and applied cryptography. Trained at Télécom Paris and Politecnico di Torino, he complements deep theoretical insight with practical system-building experience—from Hadoop/Spark parallel processing to distributed data stores. Colleagues value his ability to connect rigorous optimization theory to deployable algorithms, and his leadership at EURECOM reflects a rare mix of mentorship, cross-disciplinary breadth, and industrial impact.
14 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at Télécom ParisHabilitation a Diriger des Recherches, Computer Science, Habilitation a Diriger des Recherches, Computer Science at Université de Nice-Sophia AntipolisMsC, Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia, MsC, Digital Communication and Media/Multimedia at EURECOMMsC, Electrical Engineering, MsC, Electrical Engineering at Politecnico di Torino
English, French, Italian
Github Skills (28)
cloud-computing10
kotlin9
android9
distributed-systems8
python5
spark5
gitlab4
jupyter4
nodes4
docker3
topology3
java3
hardware3
analytics3
kafka2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
michiard/TestDFSIO
Dec 2014 - Jun 2015
Contributions:42 commits, 3 PRs, 25 pushes in 6 months
scalasimilarspark
DistributedSystemsGroup/Algorithmic-Machine-Learning
Feb 2016 - Feb 2019
Public course material
Contributions:28 commits, 3 PRs, 32 pushes in 3 years
kotlincourse-materialandroidpublic-course
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