PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Federico Girosi

As of October 2026, Federico Girosi is a senior economist at RAND, and earlier in his career he worked on support vector machines. In 1989 he and Tomaso Poggio published the AI memo “A Theory of Networks for Approximation and Learning.” In 1997 he co-wrote a CVPR paper on training support vector machines for face detection with Edgar Osuna and Robert Freund. He holds a physics PhD from the University of Genoa and earned a Harvard PhD in health policy in 2003. In 2015 he was an associate professor at the University of Western Sydney, and in 2023 he co-wrote a RAND paper on generating synthetic health data with artificial intelligence.

Works
190
Citations
20,981
h-index
48

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 15 October 2026.

Timeline

  1. 1989

    A theory of networks

    In 1989 he and Tomaso Poggio publish the AI memo “A Theory of Networks for Approximation and Learning” as AIM-1140.

  2. 1997

    Face detection with SVMs

    In 1997 he co-writes the CVPR paper “Training Support Vector Machines: An Application to Face Detection” with Edgar Osuna and Robert Freund. He spends 10 years at MIT before joining RAND.

  3. 2003

    A health policy doctorate

    In 2003 he earns a PhD in health policy from Harvard University. He holds a physics PhD from the University of Genoa.

  4. 2015

    Associate professor in Sydney

    In 2015 he speaks at a statistics seminar as an associate professor at the University of Western Sydney.

  5. 2023

    Synthetic health data with AI

    In 2023 he co-writes “Using Artificial Intelligence to Generate Synthetic Health Data” for RAND with Sai Prathyush Katragadda, Joshua Steier and Raffaele Vardavas.

  6. As of October 2026

    A senior economist at RAND

    He is a senior economist at RAND, with experience in health economics, simulation modeling and artificial intelligence.

Sources and credits

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  1. A Theory of Networks for Appxoimation and Learning dspace.mit.edu. Checked 15 October 2026.
  2. Training Support Vector Machines: An Application to Face Detection | ML Anthology mlanthology.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  3. Federico Girosi - Profile | RAND rand.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  4. Federico Girosi - The Mathematics Genealogy Project mathgenealogy.org. Checked 15 October 2026.
  5. Computational Science and the Health Program of Capital Markets CRC | School of Mathematics and Statistics unsw.edu.au. Checked 15 October 2026.