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General information
Full Name | Pietro Lesci |
Languages | Italian, English |
Education
- 2021 - Present
PhD in Computer Science
University of Cambridge
- 2016 - 2019
MSc in Economic and Social Sciences
Bocconi University
- Dissertation: "Deep Learning: A Statistical Perspective"
- 2013 - 2016
BSc in Economics and Management
Università del Sacro Cuore
- Dissertation: "Market Sentiment and Monetary Policy"
- 2008 - 2013
Scientific High School Diploma
Liceo Scientifico "Enrico Mattei" (Castrovillari)
- Dissertation: "Market Sentiment and Monetary Policy"
Research experience
- Present
Applied Scientist intern
Amazon AWS - AI Labs
- 2022
NLP Engineer
Theia Insights
- Development of NER annotation pipeline
- Development and training of transformer-based models for NER
- 2019 - 2020
Research Assistant
Bocconi Institute for Data Science and Analytics
- Working with Prof Dirk Hovy, as part of the DMI research unit, on the identification of echo chambers and online abuse on Twitter
- Development of machine learning web-apps: Wordify and MACE
Experience
- 2020 - 2021
Senior Associate, Data Science
Bain & Company
- Data-driven quality assurance (industry: mining)
- Pricing optimization (industry: packaging machines)
- Predictive maintenance in hydropower plants (industry: energy)
- Client segmentation (industry: road tolls and telco)
- Development of an internal Python library for NLP
- Deployment of NLP end-to-end solutions for product categorization
- 2021
Software Engineer (part-time contractor)
HDM Group
- Development of a time-sheet management tool (industry: energy)
- 2018
Data Science Trainee
European Central Bank
- Data quality management of private and public sector granular master data for the Directorate of General Statistics
- Database reconciliation: lead of the RIAD-GLEIF project
- Selected member oftheRIAD–AnaCredittask force with experts from the National Central Banks and the financial sector
- Speaker during regular plenary meetings with experts from the National Central Banks (reserved only to a restricted group of trainees)
- Automation of a data ingestion and deduplication procedure (80% efficiency gain) used in the computation of the Euro Short-Term rate
- Development of automated internal reports and dashboards
- Production of statistical reports published on the ECB website
Open-source projects
Reviewer experience
- EMNLP 2022
- ACL 2021
Other interests
- Enrolled in the BSc in Jazz, GPA 29.7/30
- Classical Piano classes (12 years)
- Bass Guitar classes (10 years)
- Sol-Fa degree and Piano and 5th year diploma
- Volunteering at Associazione “Il Sorriso” ONLUS
- Organist and Choir Director
- Singer, bassist, and arranger in jazz ensembles and a rock trio