Data Science & A.I. Manager

• Jul 2021 - Present

In my current role, I manage end-to-end Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning consultancy and development projects. I play a central part in defining, discussing and sizing A.I. projects with MAIZE clients. I always analyze the business context and quantify the expected impact, in order to complete the proposal and make each project a phase of a strategic road-map. In specific applications I work as the Program Account, managing relations with clients and universities, coordinating multiple work streams, communication and publications. In other cases I have the role of Project Manager with technical background or Scrum Master, applying Agile methodologies to the full Data Science project. Thanks to my previous experience as Lead Data Scientist, I also contribute to key technical decisions, concerning models to test and deploy, management of Large Language Models, root cause analysis of errors and evaluation of robustness of the solution. It is my duty to regularly monitor budget consumption, progress and risks of the projects I follow, and communicate the outcomes to product owners and stakeholders, in a precise yet clear way. Show less

Lead Data Scientist

• Apr 2015 - Jun 2021

I have been involved in the following projects:- Analysing the correlation between free text content (structured and quantified in supervised and unsupervised ways) and exogenous variables:>> Content of web pages and visits on those pages.>> Organic web searches and diffusion of real world phenomena.>> Event detection of real world phenomena (such as natural disasters and incidents).>> Improve churn and cross-sell models by including a content analysis of CRM notes.>> Detail Italian public and private school landscape through census data and self-assessment questionnaires.>> Understand the informative need by analyzing large search logs on knowledge bases.- Developing advanced sales forecasters through the usage of non-traditional data:>> Supply Chain forecasters that put greater attention on customer, store and product data, compared to historical sales.>> Retail forecasters that integrate news, events and weather data to better predict geo-located store sales.>> Personal loans request forecaster that integrate available data on offers and pricing of competitors.- Segmentation and Profiling of Customer Bases:>> Combining CRM, survey, free text (e.g. support tickets) data and domain knowledge.>> Development of existing Segmentations through tailor-made behavioural indicators.>> Applications to the Retail, Utilities, Insurance and Event Industry sectors. Show less

Mathematician

• Oct 2013 - Mar 2015

Working on the applied research project: "Computer and mathematical tools for the study of Web social networks - Network theory, multivariate statistics and probabilistic models".- Smart exploration of large textual data-sets from social networks.- Visualization and analysis of sentiment analysis data.- Analysis and modelization of sentiment dynamics on Twitter Social TV.- Topic detection and clustering of documents, such as tweets.- Automatic text classification.- Time series analysis: anomaly detection, complexity and predictive causality.My research on emotions in social networks has been the subject of a talk at the Sentiment Symposium held in New York (5th March 2014): "Sharing emotions in social networks: data mining tools for audience sentiment analysis".It has also been the subject of a talk at the first Italian Computational Linguistic Conference, CLiC (December 2014): "Geometric and statistical analysis of emotions in corpora". Show less

Probability and Statistics Tutor

• Mar 2014 - Jun 2014

Calculus Tutor

• Oct 2013 - Dec 2013

Numerical Calculus Lab Assistant

• Jun 2013 - Sep 2013

My duties included assisting in the implementation of the new network configuration and helping the tagging process of Moodle resources.

Freelance Alg Developer

• Nov 2012 - May 2013

I have been working on mathematical tools for: extracting keywords in a language independent context, segmentation of text using a probabilistic approach, performing advanced statistical analysis on website data, smart search in databases using graph and statistical techniques, finding key users and affinities in social networks. I have been working on mathematical tools for: extracting keywords in a language independent context, segmentation of text using a probabilistic approach, performing advanced statistical analysis on website data, smart search in databases using graph and statistical techniques, finding key users and affinities in social networks.

Intern

• Jul 2012 - Sep 2012

Experience of Text Mining in the Web 2.0 context: extracting structured data from Social Networks using SAS Enterprise Miner. Experience of Text Mining in the Web 2.0 context: extracting structured data from Social Networks using SAS Enterprise Miner.

Account Assistant

• Jul 2009 - Feb 2011

My duties included assisting in the financial control of 10+ shops and autonomously organizing cash bankings and cash orders.

Management Assistant

• Mar 2008 - Jun 2009

My duties included assisting in the management of 10+ shops and personally advising the company director on online trading/spread betting.