Giovanni Monea

Hey there! I’m Giovanni, a third-year Computer Science PhD student at Cornell, advised by Yoav Artzi. I hold an MSc in Computer Science from EPFL and a BSc in Engineering of Computing Systems from Politecnico di Milano.

I’m fascinated by memory and planning in machine learning. I want to make models, currently large language models, fundamentally better at both: through new architectures, and by enabling continual, longer-horizon learning at deployment time.

I’ve been lucky to work with a number of amazing collaborators. Most recently, I interned at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center, working with Ramón Fernandez Astudillo, and throughout my PhD I’ve also been closely mentored by Kianté Brantley. Earlier, I worked with Bob West at EPFL, and interned at Microsoft Research with Michel Galley and at Apple MLR with Edouard Grave.