{"id":6608,"date":"2018-09-06T11:41:51","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T10:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/?p=6608"},"modified":"2018-09-06T11:41:51","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T10:41:51","slug":"an-interview-with-luca-zappella","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/es\/an-interview-with-luca-zappella\/","title":{"rendered":"An interview with Luca Zappella"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><strong>Luca Zappella,<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h4>Researcher, Apple Inc.<\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I studied computer science in Italy, worked for a few years then I came across this new masters called VIBOT. I did not think twice and applied. After the VIBOT I did my Ph.D. at the University of Girona with Xavi Llado and Joaquim Salvi. Once I got my Ph.D. I did a couple of years of postdoc at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. I then decided to move to an industry setting and started working as researcher at Metaio (Augmented Reality). Currently I am working in an artificial intelligence research team at Apple Inc.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Can you tell us what do you do in your daily work?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Exciting and challenging. A lot of meetings but also enough time for development.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where do you see yourself in 10 years\u2019 time? (in professional terms)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Good question. There are a lot future Lucas in my head, I can&#8217;t really say which will come true but none of them would be possible without the path that led me here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What do you remember the most of your old times in ViCOROB?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cultural mix, friends, study hard, interesting food, travels, laugher, warm feelings.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Would you like to give any tip to current students?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Learn something from every new culture you meet, work to aim to do better than the best, study the basics (linear algebra, differential geometry, etc&#8230;), follow the best researchers. When you apply for the next step (university or industry) aim for the best.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luca Zappella, Researcher, Apple Inc. &nbsp; I studied computer science in Italy, worked for a few years then I came across this new masters called VIBOT. I did not think twice and applied. After the VIBOT I did my Ph.D. at the University of Girona with Xavi Llado and Joaquim Salvi. Once I got my&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[131,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}