Experience

Causal

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder and CTO

  • Oct 2020 - 3 years 3 months

  Boston, Massachusetts, United States



Institute for Applied Computational Science (IACS) at Harvard University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Advisory Board Member

  • Feb 2019 - 4 years 11 months

  Cambridge, MA



New England Concert Reviews

• Editor / Senior Photographer

  • 2012 - 11 years

  Greater Boston Area Resposible for proofing and posting site content. Photographed and wrote stories on many bands, including 3 Days Grace, 3 Doors Down, Adelita's Way, Alter Bridge, Amaranthe, Art of Dying, Black Stone Cherry, Blackberry Smoke, Bowling for Soup, Brookroyal, Buckcherry, Bullet for My Valentine, Butcher Babies, Camper Van Beethoven, Cavo, Charm City Devils, Cheap Trick, Chevelle, Chickenfoot, Cracker, Creed, Crown the Empire, Daughtry, Device, Dropkick Murphy's, Fear Factory, Five Finger… Show more Resposible for proofing and posting site content. Photographed and wrote stories on many bands, including 3 Days Grace, 3 Doors Down, Adelita's Way, Alter Bridge, Amaranthe, Art of Dying, Black Stone Cherry, Blackberry Smoke, Bowling for Soup, Brookroyal, Buckcherry, Bullet for My Valentine, Butcher Babies, Camper Van Beethoven, Cavo, Charm City Devils, Cheap Trick, Chevelle, Chickenfoot, Cracker, Creed, Crown the Empire, Daughtry, Device, Dropkick Murphy's, Fear Factory, Five Finger Death Punch, Finger 11, Five Knives, Flogging Molly, Flyleaf, Gary Clark Jr, Ghost BC, Glorious Sons, Godsmack, Goo Goo Dolls, Green Day, Sammy Hagar, Halestorm, Heaven's Basement, Hellyeah, Hollywood Undead, Jackyl, Judas Priest, LA Guns, Lamb of God, Less Than Jake, Lez Zeppelin, Megadeth, Muse, Nothing More, Otherwise, Papa Roach, P.O.D., Pop Evil, Purson, Queensryche, Ratt, Red Sun Rising, Reel Big Fish, Rob Zombie, Satriani, Seether, Shinedown, Sick Puppies, Skillet, Slash, Slipknot, Smashing Pumpkins, Steel Panther, The Darkness, The Fray, The Offspring, The Pretty Reckless, The Wombats, Theory of a Deadman, They Might Be Giants, Train, Trivium, Trombone Shorty, Volbeat, X Ambassadors, Yellowstone, and Yes. You can see my galleries at photo.palmucci.net. Show less



Self Employed

• Angel Investor

  • Jan 1998 - 26 years

  Angel investor in several startups. Incentive Targeting, sold to Google in December 2012. Cilk Arts, sold to Intel in July 2009. Vestmark, still going strong. Assisted in technical due diligence for Walnut Venture Associates and Charles River Ventures.



Tripadvisor

• United States
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Director, Machine Intelligence

  • May 2019 - Apr 2020

  Needham, MA

• Director, Machine Intelligence

  • Mar 2014 - May 2019

  Newton, MA Built a top notch team of applied machine learning researchers and practitioners from scratch to form the Tripadvisor Machine Learning group. The group has been responsible for several successful projects across different product areas in the company including review fraud detection, bot detection, natural language processing (classification, keyphrase extraction, entity linking), search result ranking, listing accuracy, machine vision, and personalization. We've grown and now are responsible… Show more Built a top notch team of applied machine learning researchers and practitioners from scratch to form the Tripadvisor Machine Learning group. The group has been responsible for several successful projects across different product areas in the company including review fraud detection, bot detection, natural language processing (classification, keyphrase extraction, entity linking), search result ranking, listing accuracy, machine vision, and personalization. We've grown and now are responsible for TA site search and media (photos and videos) as well.



The Revisionator

• Founder

  • Feb 2011 - Mar 2014

  Brookline, MA Founder of start-up providing online document collaboration with built-in version control. A combination of Google Docs and Git. • Invented and implemented new HTML diffing and merging tools, significantly improving on current state of the art • Wrote front end web interface and back end RDBMS based version control system, making complex version control operations accessible to non-programmers. • Filed patent (pending): “Document Revision Manager”



Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Software Developer

  • Mar 2009 - Mar 2014

  Worked with the Infolab group on the START Question Answering System, a natural language based search engine found at http://start.mit.edu. • Research into natural language processing • Mentor MIT students selected to work with the group



AdKnife LLC

• Founder

  • Sep 2009 - Nov 2011

  Founder of startup providing real time bidding support for display advertising placement. • Developed one of the earliest real time bidders for Google’s display ad exchange • Managed Google relationship, convincing decision makers to let a small startup onto the exchange • Developed web page regression models to predict click rate for pages in real time as they appear on the exchange • Implement retargeting advertising campaigns • Statistical analyses of all ad placement



The Percipio Group

• Founder and CTO

  • May 2005 - Mar 2009

  Founder and CTO responsible for development of financial instrument trading algorithms based on machine learning technology. Deployed 2 systematic hedge funds: a long / short commodity futures fund, and a market neutral domestic equity fund. Sold to Link Ventures in December 2008. • Developed time-series non-linear prediction techniques capable of finding significant signal in extremely noisy financial data. Algorithms ran on massively parallel compute clusters using MPI. •… Show more Founder and CTO responsible for development of financial instrument trading algorithms based on machine learning technology. Deployed 2 systematic hedge funds: a long / short commodity futures fund, and a market neutral domestic equity fund. Sold to Link Ventures in December 2008. • Developed time-series non-linear prediction techniques capable of finding significant signal in extremely noisy financial data. Algorithms ran on massively parallel compute clusters using MPI. • Invented new statistical procedures to avoid data fitting for successive refinement techniques • Developed operational system to handle trading activity • Developed a portfolio risk budgeting system • Developed web page classification techniques for web user intent • Built 3 compute clusters using Condor, Rocks, and Oscar Show less



Machine Insight

• Founder and CTO

  • Jan 2003 - May 2005

  Founder and CTO responsible for researching various machine learning techniques. Invented ECS, a new rule induction technique found to outperform state of the art in several machine learning problems. Also helped raise money for Percipio Capital, which was based on Machine Insight Technology.



i2 Technologies

• Software Development
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Fellow and Lead Architect

  • May 1997 - Oct 2001

  Fellow and Lead Architect, Scheduling Products, leading development of the Optimal Scheduler product, i2's rebranding of the Optimax scheduling product. • Performed research into various scheduling algorithms including assembly line, job shop, foundry batch optimization, outpatient scheduling, and CPG. Applied algorithms to solve many real world problems. • Oversaw the design and implementation of the Optimal Scheduler programming language and constraint modeling features for new… Show more Fellow and Lead Architect, Scheduling Products, leading development of the Optimal Scheduler product, i2's rebranding of the Optimax scheduling product. • Performed research into various scheduling algorithms including assembly line, job shop, foundry batch optimization, outpatient scheduling, and CPG. Applied algorithms to solve many real world problems. • Oversaw the design and implementation of the Optimal Scheduler programming language and constraint modeling features for new client problems. OSL was used successfully by i2 consultants to schedule the manufacturing of hundreds of billions of dollars of product. • Internal research into hardware assisted algorithms using Xilinx FPGAs, speeding up software-only algorithms 100s of times. Show less



Optimax Systems, Inc.

• Founder and VP, Software Development

  • May 1993 - May 1997

  Founder and Vice President, Development. Led software development of a manufacturing scheduling system based around a unique constraint processing system, several different schedule optimizers, and a powerful modeling language. Sold to i2 Technologies in May 1997 for $54 million.



Bolt, Beranek, and Newman

• Staff Scientist

  • Sep 1989 - May 1993

  Staff scientist in the Labs division. Received a 1992 Performance Excellence Award. Coded for 3 different groups simultaneously on the following projects. • Several schedule optimization projects • Electrical circuit routing • Computer vision • Multi-agent computer simulation • Statistical text understanding (parsing, classification, POS tagging) • Several expert systems • Cognitive modeling



Boston Children's Hospital

• United States
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant

  • Feb 1992 - Mar 1993

  Wrote an educational arcade game for children with asthma. Comparable to Super Mario Brothers, but with a protagonist that needed to manage his asthma. Written up in the Boston Globe.



NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory

• United States
• Defense and Space Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Consultant

  • May 1988 - Sep 1989

  Worked on the Voyager II spacecraft project. Wrote an object-oriented extension to a natural language processing system used by the press during the Voyager II flyby to reference Voyager Information.



MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

• Researcher

  • May 1987 - Sep 1989

  Researcher working on several projects: • Developed natural language parser and knowledge base, basis for START system above • Implemented concurrent logic language (GHC) • Developed algorithms for distributed large-scale concurrent system including garbage collection and distributed time, space, and communication allocation



The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc.

• Software Engineer

  • Oct 1986 - May 1987

  Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States Worked with Symbolics 3600 series lisp machines on a tactical planning program based on heuristic learning techniques. Work included a graphic program to chart the flow of variable matrices, and predicting the convergence of same.



Albert Einstein College of Medicine

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Independent Consultant

  • May 1986 - Sep 1986

  New York, New York, United States Wrote educational program in C and assembly designed to inform small children about their asthma condition. The program is a multi-level arcade game that tracks the patient’s medication and current state of health. A database of the child’s progress is maintained on disk. This program was used in research at Yeshiva University and the Bronx Municipal Hospital, and was the precursor of the Children’s Hospital game mentioned above.



Applied Management Systems

• System Analyst

  • Apr 1985 - Aug 1985

  New Haven, Connecticut, United States Worked as a systems analyst and programmer for a computer consulting firm after school and during the summer of my senior high school year. Implemented an industrial routing program for TRW Geometric Tool, a machine parts manufacturing plant in New Haven, CT. Also wrote a program to be used in calculating the costs, labor, and inventory needs for a local steel mill. Implemented on IBM AT computers under MS-DOS and the UCSD P-system.



Connecticut Regional Apple Group

• Founder

  • May 1982 - Aug 1985

  Shelton, Connecticut, United States Started a computer users group for Apple computers my sophomore year in high school. The group started in my house. By the time I left for college, we were meeting in a rented hall in Stratford, CT and had approximately 75 members.



ComputerEase

• Technician

  • May 1982 - Apr 1985

  Milford, Connecticut, United States Worked as a computer technician / programmer through high school. Programmed and repaired Apple, IBM, HP, and Televideo products. Maintained a computer bulletin board system that was written up in Byte magazine.



Yale University School of Medicine

• United States
• Research Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Independent Consultant

  • May 1984 - Aug 1984

  New Haven, Connecticut, United States Co-wrote educational program designed to inform asthma victims of their condition. Appeared in the New England Journal of Medicine. This program was to be the basis upon which the Albert Einstein School version would be written.



Racquetball Plus, Inc

• Independent Consultant

  • Feb 1979 - Sep 1979

  Derby, Connecticut, United States At the age of 11, wrote a membership database system running on an IBM 5100 minicomputer. The system kept track of memberships and court usage. It remained in use until they switched to an IBM PC many years later.