Summary
Anthony Sicilia is an Assistant Professor in computer science with a decade of research and industry experience at the intersection of machine learning, conversational AI, and applied data science. He completed a PhD at Northeastern and held research roles at AI2 and the University of Pittsburgh, focusing on inference-time and fine-tuning methods that improve language model reasoning about uncertainty. Anthony has industry experience leading ML efforts at Amazon—including a dialogue-system project that placed in the Alexa TaskBot Challenge—and has applied data-driven methods in nontraditional domains such as high-performance baseball analytics. Based in Pittsburgh, he blends academic rigor with product-minded engineering, moving ideas from research prototypes to deployed systems. He maintains a public resume and project portfolio online, signaling a commitment to accessible, reproducible research and interdisciplinary collaboration.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Northeastern University
Mathematics, Mathematics at University of Pittsburgh