Jack D’Iorio
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Vermont
E424 Innovation Hall, Burlington, VT 05405
Research Interests
Neural cellular automata, especially under communicative constraints
Emergent behavior, especially in models with primarily local interactions
Complex systems modeling, especially on a computer
Education
M.S. Complex Systems and Data Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA (2026 – 2027)
Thesis: TBA
Advisor: Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
B.S. Computer Science, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT, USA (2022 – 2026)
Magna Cum Laude
Academic Appointments
Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Vermont (2026 – 2027)
Course: Modeling Complex Systems I
Instructor: Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, University of Vermont (Fall 2024)
Course: Computability and Complexity
Instructor: Clayton Cafiero
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant, University of Vermont (Spring 2024)
Course: Introduction to Programming
Instructor: Clayton Cafiero
Research Positions
Graduate Researcher, The Joint Lab, Vermont Complex Systems Institute, University of Vermont (2026 – 2027) Neural cellular automata under communicative constraints
Advisor: Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
Evolving efficient communicative structures in neural cellular automata
Undergraduate Research Assistant, T.G.I.R. Lab, University of Vermont (Fall 2025)
Advisor: Dr. Jessica Crothers
Applications of auto-encoders to OPV shedding outcomes
Undergraduate Research Assistant, P.L.A.I.D Lab, University of Vermont (Spring 2025)
Advisor: Joseph Near
Improving upon and assessing speaker privacy guarantees using differential privacy
Public Speaking
TEDxUVM, “The Science of Sustainability”, TED Conferences LLC (Jan. 2026) Watch on YouTube
Guest Lecture, Modeling Complex Systems I, University of Vermont (Oct. 2026)
Instructor: Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
Invited to present the Minkowski–Bouligand dimension for application to Diffusion Limited Aggregation. Introduced the topic of neural cellular automata with canonical literature.
Guest Lecture, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, University of Vermont (Nov. 2025)
Instructor: Clayton Cafiero
Invited to present core concepts related to artificial intelligence
Publications
Ivoline Ngong, Jack D’Iorio, Hailey Schoppe, Christopher Liberatore, Nichole Schimanski, Taisa Kushner, Joseph P. Near. DP-VOXLET: Provable Speaker Anonymization for Disentangled Speech Representations. In Interspeech 2026. arXiv:2608.30969