Sandro Mikautadze

I am Italian, and, according to trust-me-bro science, also Georgian.

I started programming in Scratch in elementary school (bruh, I hated those blocks). At 12, I wrote my first lines of real code in C++ and Pascal. I bet most of you don't even know Pascal and neither do I. Today I am a serial user of Claude Code/Codex and I can't even modify a variable name without them. That's what I call human progress.

I decided to study AI in late 2019, years before finishing high school and back when being a data scientist was the sexiest job in the world. I enrolled in the second-ever cohort of the BSc in Mathematical and Computing Sciences for AI (BAI) at Bocconi in 2021 and graduated in 2024. I learned a lot of math and computer science, but also plenty of physics, neuroscience, and economics, all applied to AI.

Then I got tired of Milan and moved to Paris for an MSc in Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Visual Computing at École Polytechnique, with a lot of "AI things" applied to vision, such as computer graphics, animation, AR and VR, robotics — you name it.

My work experience is only research in industry, and my interests currently sit along two axes: vision modality and model interpretability. The application that excites me most is still to be determined by my life experiences. However, I am not close-minded at all and I want to get into as many fields as possible where those two attributes can be explored, so I can learn as much as possible.

If these things interest you (or even anything else), feel free to reach out from my contacts page.

I played football for more than a decade (forza Inter); I was an actor (I might have won an Oscar, actually); and I like editing videos, playing the ukulele, and seeking discomfort (Yes Theory). A bunch of other stuff too, but I can't say too much cause I DON'T WANT BIG BROTHER TO STEAL MY DATA, GNE GNE. No, actually, I just don't have anything else on my mind right now. That's it.