Welcome to my personal page! I am a 4th year PhD student at MIT working in LIDS with Tamara Broderick. I am interested in generative models, Bayesian inference, and optimal transport. Most recently, I have also been working on identifying limitations of spatiotemporal machine learning methods for environmental applications, and addressing these limitations using domain knowledge.
I previously interned as a Machine Learning researcher in the Health AI team at Apple. Before joining MIT, I completed a MSc in Data Science at Bocconi University advised by Igor Prünster. Prior to that, I obtained a BSc in Economics and Computer Science advised by Massimo Marinacci.
Besides research, I have always been very passionate about having an active role in the communities I am part of. I have previously served as co-President of the MIT EECS Graduate Students’ Association. I am currently serving as Program Chair and organizer of the Bayesian Decision Making and Uncertainty workshop at NeurIPS and organizer of the Virtual Seminar Series on Gaussian Processes, Spatiotemporal Modeling, and Decision-making Systems.
Feel free to contact me via email at renb at mit dot edu.
PhD in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, 2026 (expected)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MSc in Data Science & Business Analytics, 2021
Bocconi University
BSc in Economics & Computer Science, 2019
Bocconi University
September 2024: We just posted on arXiv a new exciting work on evaluating PM2.5 forecasts from the perspective of individual decision making.
August 2024: Our new work on reconstructing particle trajectories with Schrödinger Bridges was just posted on arXiv – check it out!
July 2024: I am organizing a NeurIPS workshop on Bayesian Decision Making and Uncertainty – please consider submitting your research to it :)
February 2024: I won the Outstanding Student Presentation Award at the AGU 2023 Annual Meeting
June 2023: I have been selected as a Student Poster Award winner at the 36th New Englang Statistics Symposium.
May 2023: I am excited to share I will be in Seattle for the summer interning at Apple, doing research in the Health AI team!
February 2023: I won the Best Presentation Award for the talk on ‘‘Gaussian Processes at the Helm(holtz)’’ at 28th Annual LIDS Student Conference, Optimization and Algorithms Session :)
July 2022: I have been selected as a Poster Award winner in the category BayesComp/j-ISBA at ISBA 2022.
June 2022: I won the Microsoft Award for the best talk at BAYSM 2022!
Berlinghieri, R.; Trippe, B. L.; Burt, D. R.; Giordano, R.; Srinivasan, K.; Özgökmen, T.; Junfei, X.; & Broderick, T. Gaussian processes at the Helm (holtz): A more fluid model for ocean currents. In International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2023).
Berlinghieri, R.; Krajbich, I.; Maccheroni, F.; Marinacci, M.; Pirazzini, M. Measuring utility with diffusion models. Science Advances 9 (34), 2023.
Jing, B.*, Corso, G.*, Berlinghieri, R., & Jaakkola, T. (2022). Subspace diffusion generative models. In European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2022).
Berlinghieri, R.*; Burt, D. R.*, Giani, P.; Fiore, A.; Broderick, T. A Framework for Evaluating PM2.5 Forecasts from the Perspective of Individual Decision Making (2024)
Shen, Y.*; Berlinghieri, R.*; Broderick, T. Multi-marginal Schrödinger Bridges with Iterative Reference Refinement (2024)