Simone Romano

AI scientist and engineer with experience in academia and industry. I enjoy exploratory analysis and surfacing business insights from data, and building theoretically sound AI pipelines that are ready for production. AWS is my favourite cloud platform, with 8 certifications.

10 roles, 0 posts, since 2005.

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Experience

• 2020-05 to now
  AI consultant, Independent

  Lead ML scientist and engineer on machine learning, NLP and computer vision projects, from roadmap definition to end-to-end deployment.

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  • Introduced novel NLP techniques to startups and defined their machine learning roadmaps
  • Built, deployed and maintained end-to-end machine learning pipelines and fully functional products
• 2018-07 to 2020-05
  Scientific Advisor, SciAR

  Advised on AI for augmented and mixed reality tools that support scientific discovery in laboratories.

• 2019-04 to 2020-04
  Principal Scientist, Huawei

  Researched and implemented deep learning NLP solutions for Huawei Cloud products, from proof of concept to production.

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  • Led the effort to identify hate speech and illegal activities in text across several languages
• 2018-06 to 2019-04
  Founder, Tywai

  Built AI tools that automatically add objects to photos and videos.

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  • Built a team of scientists and engineers and developed a deep learning platform and cloud APIs
• 2016-05 to 2017-10
  Applied Scientist 2, Microsoft

  Worked across data science, machine learning and information retrieval for Windows and Bing.

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  • Analysed petabytes of Windows and Bing data
  • A/B tested new machine learning techniques for production deployment
• 2016-01 to 2016-04
  Research Scientist, National Institute of Informatics

  Estimated the true dimensionality of high dimensional datasets to improve machine learning techniques.

• 2014-02 to 2015-12
  Teacher, NLP and Data Mining, The University of Melbourne

  Taught structured and unstructured data methods, information retrieval and NLP-based data mining.

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  • Ran internal Kaggle-style competitions on Twitter data
• 2011-05 to 2012-01
  Data Analyst, Euromonitor International

  Applied data mining to national market data to produce business insights.

• 2011-01 to 2012-01
  Research Scientist, University of Padova

  Developed machine learning prediction models for medical applications.

• 2006 to 2008
  Web developer, Ewebb

  Built business e-commerce sites, including web design and client-side and server-side scripting.

Education

• 2015
  The University of Melbourne, PhD, Machine Learning
• 2010
  University of Padova, MSc, Computer Engineering
• 2009
  University of Padova, BSc, Biomedical Engineering

Skills

• machine-learning
• deep-learning
• nlp
• computer-vision
• information-retrieval
• python
• pytorch
• tensorflow
• aws
• mcp
• agentic-engineering
• data-analysis
• mlops
• docker
• terraform

Languages

• en

Links

• website: https://simoneromano.com
• linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simoromano
• scholar: https://scholar.google.fi/citations?user=Th6Fr-8AAAAJ
• github: https://github.com/simoroma unverified
• other: https://medium.com/@ialuronico
• other: https://stats.stackexchange.com/users/2719/simone
• x: https://twitter.com/ialuronico
• other: https://www.slideshare.net/SimoneRomano1