Marco Mondelli

Marco Mondelli earned both his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Telecommunications Engineering in Pisa in 2010 and 2012, respectively, and during that period he was an Allievo Ordinario in the Engineering program at the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna. In 2016, Marco obtained a PhD in Computer and Communication Sciences from EPFL. From 2017 to 2019, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher at Stanford University, and in 2018 he was a Research Fellow at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. Marco has held a position at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) since 2019, first as a tenure-track Assistant Professor and, since 2025, as Professor. His research interests include data science, machine learning, high-dimensional statistics, coding theory, and information theory. Marco has received several awards, including the ISIT Student Paper Award in 2015, the STOC Best Paper Award in 2016, the EPFL Doctorate Award in 2018, the Simons–Berkeley Research Fellowship in 2018, the Lopez-Loreta Prize in 2019, the Information Theory Society Best Paper Award in 2021, and an ERC Starting Grant in 2024.