Biography

Hello, and welcome to my personal website! I'm Manuel, an incoming ELLIS PhD student supervised by Alessio Del Bue at the Italian Institute of Technology and Michael Bronstein at the University of Oxford.

News

  • Sep 2024 New preprint đź“ť: "Higher-Order Topological Directionality and Directed Simplicial Neural Networks."
  • Jul 2024 First place 🏆 at ICML Topological Deep Learning Challenge 2024.
  • Jul 2024 Attended ELLIS Cambridge Probabilistic ML Summer School 🎓.

Education

 
 
 
 
 
ELLIS - IIT & Oxford
PhD in Computer Science
ELLIS - IIT & Oxford
November 2024 – November 2027
 
 
 
 
 
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
MSc in Advanced Mathematics
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
September 2021 – November 2022
 
 
 
 
 
Universitat de Barcelona
BSc in Computer Science
Universitat de Barcelona
September 2015 – February 2021
 
 
 
 
 
Universitat de Barcelona
BSc in Mathematics
Universitat de Barcelona
September 2015 – February 2021

Research Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Italian Institute of Technology
Research Fellow
Italian Institute of Technology
May 2023 – November 2023 Genoa
 
 
 
 
 
Universitat de Barcelona
Research Fellow
Universitat de Barcelona
January 2023 – March 2023 Barcelona

Other Experience

 
 
 
 
 
KPMG
Data Analyst
KPMG
March 2021 – September 2021 Madrid
 
 
 
 
 
IMath Sherpa
Data Analyst Intern
IMath Sherpa
December 2020 – March 2020 Barcelona

Recent Publications

Manuel Lecha, Andrea Cavallo, Francesca Dominici, Elvin Isufi, Claudio Battiloro (2024). Higher-Order Topological Directionality and Directed Simplicial Neural Networks.

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Guillermo Bernárdez, Et Al. (2024). ICML Topological Deep Learning Challenge 2024: Beyond the Graph Domain.

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Mustafa Hajij, Et Al. (2024). TopoX: A Suite of Python Packages for Machine Learning on Topological Domains.

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Mathilde Papillon, Et Al. (2023). ICML 2023 Topological Deep Learning Challenge: Design and Results. In PMLR.

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