Simone Parisi

I joined Tampere University as Assistant Professor (tenure-track) and ELLIS PI in April 2026. My research interests lie in the area of reinforcement learning, especially in the fields of exploration, representation learning, partial observability, transfer learning, and multi-objective optimization. Recently, I have been working on learning under imperfect information and on methods that move away from the classic tabula-rasa paradigm towards a more practical transfer framework. More specifically, I am interested in (1) better understanding state representation learning from rich and diverse inputs, (2) developing task-agnostic exploration policies, and (3) developing policy architectures for transfer/continual learning of state representations and exploration policies. Check out my research in more detail here.