Education

• PhD in Information and Communications Engineering, University of Klagenfurt (2022 - Now)
• MSc in Control Systems Engineering, University of Padova (2020 - 2022)
• BSc in Information Engineering, University of Padova (2017 - 2020)

Work experience

• University Assistant, University of Klagenfurt (Mar. 2023 - Now)
  • Duties included: Research and teaching
  • Supervisor: Professor Andrea M. Tonello
• Visiting Researcher, Princeton University (June 2025 - July 2025)
  • Research collaboration with Professor H. Vincent Poor
• Project Assistant, Kelag International (Apr. 2025 - Present)
  • Project on “Power Line Communication for Metering - Data Analytics”
• Project Assistant, Network of competence on Internet of Things (NEON) (Sep. 2022 - Feb. 2024)
  • Administrative and managerial role
• Researcher, University of Klagenfurt (Aug. 2022 - Feb. 2023)
  • Duties included: Research
  • Supervisor: Professor Andrea M. Tonello
• Student intern, TRUMPF Italia (Mar. 2022 - June 2022)
  • Duties included: Design of machine learning algorithms to improve the performance of bending machines
  • Supervisor: Professor Alessandro Chiuso

Selected Publications

1. $f$-Divergence Based Classification: Beyond the Use of Cross-Entropy
   Nicola Novello, Andrea M. Tonello
   ICML – International Conference on Machine Learning, 2024
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2. Mutual Information Estimation via $f$-Divergence and Data Derangements
   Nunzio A. Letizia, Nicola Novello, Andrea M. Tonello
   NeurIPS – Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, 2024
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3. Robust Classification with Noisy Labels Based on Posterior Maximization
   Nicola Novello, Andrea M. Tonello
   Preprint