Federico Ghimenti

I am a postdoctoral fellow at the Stanford Institute of Theoretical Physics, working independently in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University. I use ideas from nonequilibrium statistical mechanics and the theory of disordered systems to understand the properties of neural networks and analog computing devices.

I obtained my PhD on July 2024, working in the Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes at Université Paris Cité, under the supervision of Frédéric van Wijland. I investigated how and to what extent ideas from nonequilibrium statistical mechanics can be leveraged to speed up sampling in glassy and amorphous systems. My thesis can be found here.