From graph nets on corner-kick data to an AI sports panel with Giorgio Chiellini
PetarV_93 · x · 2026-10-08
Researcher Petar Veličković recounts how a curiosity experiment—"throwing graph neural nets at corner kick data"—led to an invitation to an AI-for-sports panel at Wave by Vento alongside Italy legend Giorgio Chiellini and Flora Bell. A nice datapoint on how playful graph-net experiments have grown into serious sports analytics discussions.
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