Maximo Rulli
Researcher at Sapienza Università di Roma
Passionately curious about modelling data distributions and interpreting models in novel ways.
- —Interdisciplinary research projects across fields adjacent to ML
- —Active contributor to the lab's growth projects
- —Tackling problems from unconventional perspectives
- 2024 – 2027Sapienza Università di RomaB.Sc. in Computer Science
An ML-intensive program exploring modern applications.
M. Rulli*, S. Petruzzi*, E. Michielon, F. Silvestri, S. Scardapane, A. Devoto
- 2025 – PresentSapienza Università di RomaStudent Researcher
Working on Diffusion Language Models, interpretability, and generative modelling at ISPAMM. Supervised by Simone Scardapane and Alessio Devoto.
- 2024MecanTronicMachine Learning Engineer
End-to-end system development: From data collection and labeling to model fine-tuning, I contributed to all stages of building a TTS system.
- 2023Escuela Técnica Roberto RoccaMachine Learning Course Instructor
Designed and taught a comprehensive Machine Learning course oriented towards upper-secondary students. Lectures are available in Spanish here.
Academic Service
Organiser of the weekly reading group, an interdisciplinary meeting of researchers across the university
Assisted in the organisation of the lab's internal processes
Distinctions
Selected for the Honours Degree, ranking in the top 5 out of over 180 students
BERI (formerly Open Philanthropy) award winner
Latest research notes and blogs.
27/03/2025
A Gentle Introduction to Diffusion Language Models
A light theoretical and practical introduction to diffusion language models—a new way of generating text in any order.