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Hi, my name is Marco! I graduated from the University of Maryland with a Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics. I was advised by Dr. Furong Huang.

Recent News

August 2025 Began teaching at Goucher Prison Education Partnership (GPEP), a division of Goucher College
March 2025 Successfully defended my Ph.D. Thesis: Artificial Intelligence on the Edge: From Learning to Deployment
December 2024 Presented two papers (1 main conference & 1 workshop) at NeurIPS 2024!

Select Publications

2025 Auction-Based Regulation for Artificial Intelligence
2024 FACT or Fiction: Can Truthful Mechanisms Eliminate Federated Free Riding?
2023 SWIFT: Rapid Decentralized Federated Learning via Wait-Free Model Communication

Work Experience

2022 - Present Applied ML Scientist
Alcority
2020 - 2025 Graduate Research Assistant
University of Maryland, Huang Research Lab
2022 - 2023 Doctoral Internship
Pacific Northwest National Lab

Education

2019 - 2025 Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics
University of Maryland
2019 - 2021 M.S. in Applied Mathematics
University of Maryland
2015 - 2019 B.A. in Computational & Applied Mathematics
Rice University
2015 - 2019 B.A. in Mechanical Engineering
Rice University