Francesco Locatello

Francesco Locatello is an assistant professor at ISTA leading the Causal Learning and Artificial Intelligence lab.

I'm hiring Ph.D. students and Postdocs

• Prospective Interns: I am not actively hiring interns outside of the ISTernship program: https://phd.pages.ist.ac.at/isternship/. Due to the volume, I unfortunately won't be able to reply to internship requests.

• Prospective Ph.D. students: please apply through https://phd.pages.ista.ac.at

• Prospective postdoctoral fellows: please get in touch with me via email! 

Short 3rd person bio

Francesco Locatello is a tenure-track assistant professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) and an AI resident at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. Before, he was a senior applied scientist at Amazon Web Services, leading the Causal Representation Learning team. He received his PhD from ETH Zürich co-advised by Gunnar Rätsch and Bernhard Schölkopf. His research received several awards, including the ICML 2019 Best Paper award, the Hector Foundation award for outstanding achievements in machine learning from the Heidelberg Academy of Science in 2023, and the Google Research Scholar Award in 2024. 

Lab Members

• Dingling Yao, ISTA, ELLIS student co-advised with Georg Martius

• Berker Demirel, ISTA

• Riccardo Cadei, ISTA, ELLIS student co-advised with Cordelia Schmid

• Walter Nelson, ISTA, ELLIS student co-advised with Arthur Gretton

• Dario Rancati, ISTA, ELLIS student co-advised with Max Welling

• Marco Fumero, PostDoc at ISTA

• Adeel Pervez, PostDoc at ISTA

• Shimeng Huang, PostDoc at ISTA, co-advised with Matt Robinson

• Francesco Montagna, University of Genoa and ELLIS, co-advised with Lorenzo Rosasco and Nicoletta Noceti

• Siddhartha Gairola, MPI and ELLIS, co-advised with Bernt Schiele

• Zhenyu Zhu, EPFL and ELLIS, co-advised with Volkan Cevher

• Valentino Maiorca, La Sapienza University and ELLIS, co-advised with Emanuele Rodolà

Alumni:

• Marco Fumero, La Sapienza University and ELLIS, co-advised with Emanuele Rodolà. Now PostDoc at ISTA

• Luca Moschella, La Sapienza University and ELLIS, co-advised with Emanuele Rodolà. Now Apple

• Antonio Norelli, La Sapienza University and ELLIS, co-advised with Emanuele Rodolà. Now PostDoc at Oxford with Michael Bronstein