Elias Bassani
Member Of Technical Staff at Seltz
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolElias Bassani is a Member of Technical Staff based in Milan with a PhD in Computer Science and a decade of experience building search and AI systems. He currently develops a next-generation search engine for AI agents at Seltz, after researching robustness and guardrail evaluation for the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre. His background spans full-stack development, search prototypes with Elasticsearch, deep learning for finance, and production backends in Node.js and Python. Elias combines research rigor with practical product delivery—authoring GuardBench, a large-scale benchmark and library for evaluating guardrail models. He’s drawn to neural networks, efficiency tricks like einsum, usability, and the occasional improperly used emoji, signaling a blend of technical depth and playful curiosity.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Github Skills (200)
parallel10
python10
metasearch10
optimization10
nlp10
numba10
information-retrieval10
natural-language-processing10
tf-idf10
pytorch10
buffer10
evaluation10
machine-learning10
fusion10
mime9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
AmenRa/retriv
Nov 2022 - Feb 2023
A Python Search Engine for Humans 🥸
Contributions:1 release, 19 commits, 1 PR in 3 months
bm25dense-retrievalhybrid-retrievalinformation-retrievalnumba
AmenRa/a-multi-domain-benchmark-for-personalized-search-evaluation
May 2022 - Oct 2022
A Multi-domain Benchmark for Personalized Search Evaluation
Contributions:26 commits, 5 pushes in 5 months
benchmarkingdatasetevaluationpersonalizationbenchmark
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