Marco Ponza

Marco Ponza

PhD, Senior AI Research Engineer

Bloomberg LP

Biography

โš—๏ธ As a Senior AI Research Engineer at Bloomberg LP, I work on developing machine learning (ML) systems for search engines.

๐Ÿ”Ž Currently, I am focused on improving the search of retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems for financial documents.

๐Ÿค– I have experience in the full lifecycle of machine learning systems - design, model development and evaluation, as well as deployment and maintenance in production.

๐ŸŽ“ Prior to joining Bloomberg, I completed my PhD at the University of Pisa, where I worked at the intersection of natural language processing (NLP) and information retrieval (IR), with a focus on entity-oriented retrieval and salience estimation. I am also a former member of the Aยณ Lab at the University of Pisa, and an ex-research intern at Max Planck Institute for Informatics.

๐Ÿž๏ธ During my spare time I enjoy traveling, taking photos, watching movies, cooking, and reading.

๐Ÿ‘€ Views are mine.

Publications

(2024). Leveraging Contextual Information for Effective Entity Salience Detection. In Findings of the 2024 North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2024).

PDF DOI

(2021). Contextualizing Trending Entities in News Stories. In the Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2021).

PDF Dataset Poster Slides Video DOI

(2018). Facts That Matter. Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2018).

PDF Code Poster DOI

(2018). Algorithms for Knowledge and Information Extraction in Text with Wikipedia. PhD Dissertation, University of Pisa. Defended on 08/03/2019.

PDF Slides

(2017). Document Aboutness via Sophisticated Syntactic and Semantic Features. International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems (NLDB 2017).

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Education

 
 
 
 
 

PhD in Computer Science

Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa

Oct 2015 โ€“ Oct 2018 Pisa, Italy
 
 
 
 
 

MSc in Computer Science

Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa

Oct 2011 โ€“ Jul 2015 Pisa, Italy
 
 
 
 
 

BSc in Computer Science

Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa

Sep 2008 โ€“ Dec 2011 Pisa, Italy

Experience

 
 
 
 
 

Senior AI Research Engineer

Bloomberg LP

Mar 2023 โ€“ Present London, United Kingdoom
 
 
 
 
 

AI Research Engineer

Bloomberg LP

May 2020 โ€“ Feb 2023 London, United Kingdoom
 
 
 
 
 

Research Intern

Bloomberg LP

Sep 2019 โ€“ Apr 2020 London, United Kingdoom
 
 
 
 
 

Postdoctoral Researcher

Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa

Dec 2018 โ€“ Sep 2019 Pisa, Italy
 
 
 
 
 

Teaching Assistant

Master in Big Data Analytics & Social Mining, University of Pisa

Jan 2018 โ€“ Aug 2018 Pisa, Italy
 
 
 
 
 

Research Intern

Max Planck Institute for Informatics

Aug 2017 โ€“ Feb 2018 Saarbrรผcken, Germany
 
 
 
 
 

Teaching Assistant

Department of Physics, University of Pisa

Oct 2015 โ€“ Jun 2017 Pisa, Italy

Awards

SIGIR Student Travel Grant

Student travel grant for CIKM 2017.

Pegaso Doctorate Scholarship

Three-years funding and stipend awarded for young researchers.

Activities

Talks