Angelo Cafaro
Data Scientist
Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
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Top SchoolAngelo Cafaro is a data scientist and project-management professional with eight years of experience applying NLP and AI to real-world regulatory challenges. He currently leads NLP and AI initiatives at the European Food Safety Authority, focusing on automated systematic reviews and dietary cumulative risk assessment of pesticide residues. His academic career includes postdoctoral roles and a PhD in AI and HCI, with worldwide recognition for work on embodied conversational agents and natural human-computer interfaces. He combines hands-on data science with end-to-end project delivery, having steered multi-site migrations, security programs, and large European research grants. Based in Parma, Italy, he is fluent in English, French, and Italian, and excels in public speaking, stakeholder engagement, and human-centered design. He brings a rare blend of research excellence and industry execution, turning cutting-edge AI research into practical tools for policy and safety.
8 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Informatica, 110/110 with honors, Master of Science (MSc), Informatica, 110/110 with honors at Università degli Studi di SalernoDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), AI and HCI, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), AI and HCI at Reykjavik University
Italian, English, French
Github Skills (4)
french6
horizon5
audio4
language-models1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
angelcaf/datasciencecoursera
Sep 2020 - Sep 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
ARIA-VALUSPA/AVP
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
This is the ARIA-VALUSPA Platform, or AVP for short. Use this platform to build your own Virtual Humans with audio-visual input and output, language models for English, French, and German, emotional understanding, and many more. This work was funded by European Union Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, grant agreement No 645378.
Contributions:3 commits, 3 pushes in 4 days
europeaninnovationunderstandingariaaudio-visual
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