cv

Below you have a summary of my CV, for a version with more details, please download the PDF file.
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Basics

Name Fabio Arnez
Label Research Engineer in AI | Ph.D. in Computer Science
Email name.lastname@cea.fr
Url https://fabioarnez.github.io/

Work

  • 2019.10 - Present

    Palaiseau, France

    Research Engineer in AI
    CEA-LIST, DILS, LSEA
    Research in Deep Learning Uncertainty, Out-of-Distribution Detection, and Trustworthy AI/AI Safety.
    • Trustwrothy Deep Learning Team Leader
    • Participation in the EU&FR funded projects: Comp4Drones (WP4-T4.4 leader and contributor), Confiance.ai program (contributor), DeepGreen (contributor)
  • 2019.04 - 2019.10

    Cochabamba, Bolivia

    Data Scientist
    Bamboo Tec
    Enterprise data analysis and visualization (dashbords)
    • Data Science & Engineering Team Leader
  • 2016.09 - 2018.08

    Lugano, Switzerland

    Research Assistant
    University of Applied Arts and Science of Souther Switzerland - SUPSI
    Embedded Systems and IoT R&D
    • Embedded Machine Learning for signal classification
    • Embedded systems prototyping for wireless IoT applications (802.15.4, Bluetooth)
    • RF PCB Design
  • 2016.05 - 2014.05

    Cochabamba, Bolivia

    UAV Research Engineer
    Jalasoft
    UAV Computer Vision, Navigation, and Embedded Systems development
    • UAV localization & navigation
    • ROS integration
    • Embedded systems and PX4/Pixhawk autopilot development
  • 2014.09 - 2019.03

    Cochabamba, Bolivia

    Adjunt Lecturer and Researcher
    Universidad Privada Boliviana
    Research on Smart Embedded Systems for IoT, and Lecturer from the Electronics and Computer Science majors
    • Smart Street Lightning Project
    • Courses Taught: Embedded Electronic Systems (2016), Microprocessor Architecture and Technology (2015, 2016, 2019), Electronics and Telecom. Project (2018), Telecom. Electronics (2018), Electronic Instrumentation (2014, 2015)

Education

  • 2019.12 - 2023.12

    Palaiseau, France

    Ph.D. in Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence
    Université Paris-Saclay
    Deep Learning Uncertainty Quantification, Trustworthy AI, AI-Safety
    • Ph.D. Thesis Title: Deep Neural Network Uncertainty Runtime Monitoring for Robust and Safe AI-based Automated Navigation
  • 2016.09 - 2018.07

    Lugano, Switzerland

    MSc. in Engineering - Embedded Sytems and Microelectronics
    University of Applied Arts and Science of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI)
    Precision Systems and Telecom
    • MSc. Thesis Title: Real-Time Human Footstep Recognition on Smart Anti-Static Floor
  • 2008.02 - 2014.05

    Cochabamba, Bolivia

    BSc. in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering
    Universidad Privada Boliviana (UPB)
    Embedded Systems and IoT
    • Grade Project Title: VIRMS – A Vehicle Information and Road Monitoring System

Awards

  • 2016.09
    RETECA Fondation Scholarship
    RETECA Foundation, Switzerland
    The aim of the RETECA Foundation is to help and support young researchers from developing countries engaged in post-education or research activities in the field of electrical engineering or applied electrical engineering.

Publications

  • 2025.06
    FindMeIfYouCan: Bringing Open Set metrics to Near, Far and Farther Out-of-Distribution Object Detection
    ArXiV
    This paper shows that the current evaluation protocol for OOD-OD violates the assumption of non-overlapping objects with respect to the In-Distribution (ID) datasets, and obscures crucial situations such as ignoring unknown objects, potentially leading to overconfidence in deployment scenarios where truly novel objects might be encountered. To address these limitations, we manually curate, and enrich the existing benchmark by exploiting semantic similarity to create new evaluation splits categorized as near, far, and farther from ID distributions. Additionally, we incorporate established metrics from the Open Set community, providing deeper insights into how effectively methods detect unknowns, when they ignore them, and when they mistakenly classify OOD objects as ID. Our comprehensive evaluation demonstrates that semantically and visually close OOD objects are easier to localize than far ones, but are also more easily confounded with ID objects. Far and farther objects are harder to localize but less prone to be taken for an ID object.
  • 2024.07
    Latent Representation Entropy Density for Distribution Shift Detection
    PMLR
    This paper proposes using simple sample-based techniques for estimating uncertainty and employing the entropy density from intermediate representations to detect distribution shifts. We demonstrate the effectiveness of our method using standard benchmark datasets for out-of-distribution detection and across different common perception tasks with convolutional neural network architectures. Our scope extends beyond classification, encompassing image-level distribution shift detection for object detection and semantic segmentation tasks.
  • 2022.09
    Towards Dependable Autonomous Systems Based on Bayesian Deep Learning Components
    IEEE
    This paper provides a method that considers the uncertainty and the interaction between BDL components to capture the overall system uncertainty. We study the effect of uncertainty propagation in a BDL-based system for autonomous aerial navigation. Experiments show that our approach allows us to capture useful uncertainty estimates while slightly improving the system’s performance in its final task. In addition, we discuss the benefits, challenges, and implications of adopting BDL to build dependable autonomous systems
  • 2022.05
    Quantifying and Using System Uncertainty in UAV navigation
    ArXiV
    We study the effect of the uncertainty from perception representations in downstream control predictions. Moreover, we leverage the uncertainty in the system's output to improve control decisions that positively impact the UAV's performance on its task.

Languages

Spanish
Native speaker
English
Fluent C1/C2
French
Basic-Intermediate B1
Italian
Basic A2