{"id":39,"date":"2024-06-02T14:24:20","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T12:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/?p=39"},"modified":"2024-06-02T14:42:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-02T12:42:12","slug":"giacomo-verardos-licentiate-defense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/2024\/06\/giacomo-verardos-licentiate-defense\/","title":{"rendered":"Giacomo Verardo&#8217;s Licentiate Defense"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-content-wrapper\"><p>We are happy to announce that Giacomo Verardo successfully defended his licentiate thesis (licentiate is a degree at KTH half-way to a PhD)! As usual, Marco Chiesa has done an excellent job as a co-advisor, and we are truly grateful to Prof. Gerald Q. Maguire Jr. for his stellar insights. Dr. Maxime Sermesant was a superb opponent at the licentiate seminar, with Prof. Vlad Vlassov as the examiner. Giacomo \u2019s thesis is available online:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"displayFields\"><span class=\"subTitle\">&#8220;Optimizing Neural Network Models for Healthcare and Federated Learning&#8221;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"formSmash:some\" class=\"ui-accordion ui-widget ui-helper-reset ui-hidden-container displayFields\" role=\"tablist\" data-widget=\"widget_formSmash_some\">\n<h3 class=\"ui-accordion-header ui-helper-reset ui-state-default ui-state-active ui-corner-top authorPanel\" title=\"KTH, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS), Computer Science, Software and Computer systems, SCS, Network Systems Laboratory (NS Lab).\" role=\"tab\" aria-expanded=\"true\"><a class=\"block link\" lang=\"en-GB\" style=\"font-family: Georgia, 'garamond pro', garamond, 'times new roman', times, serif;font-size: 1rem;font-weight: 400\" href=\"https:\/\/urn.kb.se\/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-346023\" data-cid=\"1.1335154\">urn.kb.se\/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-346023<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A few images from the defense and the celebration are below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-37 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/files\/2024\/05\/P_20240529_100510p.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/files\/2024\/05\/P_20240529_100510p.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/files\/2024\/05\/P_20240529_100510p-369x208.jpg 369w, https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/files\/2024\/05\/P_20240529_100510p-1168x657.jpg 1168w, https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/files\/2024\/05\/P_20240529_100510p-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Giacomo presenting during the defense (image taken by Massimo Girondi).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/files\/2024\/05\/1030289-Enhanced-NRp.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/files\/2024\/05\/1030289-Enhanced-NRp.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/files\/2024\/05\/1030289-Enhanced-NRp-369x369.jpg 369w, https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/files\/2024\/05\/1030289-Enhanced-NRp-1168x1168.jpg 1168w, https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/files\/2024\/05\/1030289-Enhanced-NRp-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/files\/2024\/05\/1030289-Enhanced-NRp-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dejan congratulates Giacomo once Prof. Vlassov announced that Giacomo passed his defense (image taken by Massimo Girondi).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-34\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/files\/2024\/05\/DKRA8189-Enhanced-NR-Editps.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/files\/2024\/05\/DKRA8189-Enhanced-NR-Editps.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/files\/2024\/05\/DKRA8189-Enhanced-NR-Editps-369x369.jpg 369w, https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/files\/2024\/05\/DKRA8189-Enhanced-NR-Editps-1168x1168.jpg 1168w, https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/files\/2024\/05\/DKRA8189-Enhanced-NR-Editps-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/files\/2024\/05\/DKRA8189-Enhanced-NR-Editps-768x768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dejan hands the traditional gift to Giacomo (image taken by Voravit Tanyingyong).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/files\/2024\/05\/IMG_5963-Editpps.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/files\/2024\/05\/IMG_5963-Editpps.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/files\/2024\/05\/IMG_5963-Editpps-369x277.jpg 369w, https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/files\/2024\/05\/IMG_5963-Editpps-1168x876.jpg 1168w, https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/files\/2024\/05\/IMG_5963-Editpps-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Group image with Networked Systems Laboratory members (image taken by Sanna Jarl).<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are happy to announce that Giacomo Verardo successfully defended his licentiate thesis (licentiate is a degree at KTH half-way to a PhD)! As usual, Marco Chiesa has done an excellent job as a co-advisor, and we are truly grateful to Prof. Gerald Q. Maguire Jr. for his stellar insights. Dr. Maxime Sermesant was a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":621,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-okategoriserat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/621"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/42"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kth.se\/blogs\/sfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}