Alessandro Manzotti
Senior Data & Applied NLP Scientist
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
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Top SchoolAlessandro Manzotti is a Senior Data & Applied NLP Scientist with 12 years of experience blending academic rigor and production ML, currently advancing speech-to-text, NLU and sign-language recognition at Microsoft. Previously he led Italian and Spanish Alexa language models as a Research Scientist at Amazon, bringing product-focused research to voice assistants. His background includes a PhD in Astrophysics and impactful work on Bayesian signal extraction and cosmological inference—skills he translates into robust uncertainty-aware ML systems. Comfortable moving between Julia, Python and deep learning tooling, he has a track record of reducing noise and improving estimators in complex scientific pipelines. Based in Turin, he uniquely combines large-scale conversational AI expertise with a strong foundation in probabilistic modeling from astrophysics research.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
college degree, Physics, 110/110 lode, college degree, Physics, 110/110 lode at Università degli Studi di ParmaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Astrophysics at University of Chicago
Italian, French, English
Github Skills (15)
machine-learning2
deep-learning2
python2
statistics2
cuda1
automatic-differentiation1
autodiff1
high-energy-physics1
bayesian1
cosmology1
physics1
tensorflow1
gpu1
julia1
neural-network1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
amanzotti/galaxies_delensing
May 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:138 pushes, 1 tag in 10 months
amanzotti/amanzotti.github.io
Sep 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:17 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 11 months
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