Federico Villa

EPFLETUIN-SIN-MA4

Education

MSc ETH Zurich – EPFL

| Master of Science in Computer Science Major in Cyber Security

2024 – 2024 ETH Zurich – EPFL

BSc Engineering of Computing Systems

| Bachelor of Science degree in Information Technology

2021 – 2024 Politecnico di Milano

Research

Asynchronous SGD Generalization Analysis

A study on how Asynchronous Stochastic Gradient Descent impacts generalization, providing better model stability and tighter generalization error bounds through ASGD stale updates.
Project Website
Topics: Optimization for Machine Learning, Stochastic Optimization, Asynchronous Learning, Distributed Training

Student seminar: security protocols

Prio, a privacy-preserving system for computing aggregate statistics over sensitive client data without revealing individual data points and without sacrificing scalability.

COM-506 Course Link
Topics: Privacy Enhancing Technologies, zero-knowledge proofs, security protocols, cryptography, non-interactive proofs, aggregate statistics