Andrea Vanzo
Staff Researcher at AssemblyAI
Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
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Top SchoolAndrea Vanzo is a Staff Researcher based in Lugano with a decade of experience specializing in NLP, NLU, computational linguistics, and human-robot interaction, now leading multimodal and audio-focused AI projects at AssemblyAI. She combines deep academic training (PhD in Computer Engineering) with hands-on research engineering, shipping state-of-the-art ASR and text-formatting systems while mentoring a small research team. Her work bridges rigorous machine learning and practical deployment, steering cross-functional teams from prototyping to production. Notably, she balances research leadership with individual contributions, retaining active technical authorship alongside shaping the company’s research agenda.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Heriot-Watt University Edinburgh CampusDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering at Sapienza Università di RomaMaster's degree in Computer Science Engineering, Computer Science, Master's degree in Computer Science Engineering, Computer Science at University of Rome Tor Vergata
Italian, English
Github Skills (18)
corpus-linguistics7
robot6
corpus6
robotics6
interaction5
conll5
natural-language-processing4
natural-language-understanding4
slot3
converting3
coco-ssd2
annotations2
coco2
semantic-segmentation1
pytorch1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
andreavanzo/LU4R_android_app
Sep 2016 - Feb 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 12 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
andreavanzo/lu4r_ros_interface
Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:15 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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