Biography

Opinions are my own.

I am a senior AI research engineer at Bloomberg LP, working on their financial search engine where I build software systems based on machine learning (ML).

I have experience in designing and developing ML systems for the classification and ranking of news stories. This involves the ML system in its whole lifecycle - data analysis, collection, annotation, model training and evaluation, as well as its deployment (and maintainance) in an existing production infrastructure which serves millions of requests per day.

I worked on automating our ML development pipeline through different and reusable software components that are currently used by different teams.

I also have experience in documenting, debugging, fixing, and migrating legacy systems into modern software services/libraries.

Prior to joining Bloomberg I was a PhD student at the University of Pisa. During my PhD studies I worked in the domain of information retrieval and I published different research works on entity relatedness, entity salience, fact salience, and expert finding.

I am a former member of the A³ Lab at the University of Pisa, and an ex-research intern at Max Planck Institute for Informatics.

During my spare time I enjoy traveling, taking photos, watching movies, cooking, and reading.