Felice Merra
Senior Data Science Manager
Berlin, Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolFelice Merra is a Senior Data Science Manager based in Berlin with eight years of experience building large-scale Information Retrieval, NLP, and Generative AI systems that drive measurable business impact. Currently leading Data Science at Cognism, she translates cutting-edge research—particularly in agentic workflows, multilingual models, and deep learning—into production-grade SaaS features while scaling high-performing teams across time zones. Previously she shaped search and GenAI experiences at Amazon and AWS, acting as a Science Technical Leader on Amazon Q and delivering solutions used by millions. She holds a PhD in Recommender Systems and Adversarial Machine Learning, with award-winning research that improved recommender robustness and informs her pragmatic, security-aware approach to production ML. Known for being technically hands-on and outcome-driven, she combines mentoring and strategic stakeholder alignment to consistently turn research prototypes into revenue-generating products.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Recommender Systems and Adversarial Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Recommender Systems and Adversarial Machine Learning at Politecnico di Bari
Github Skills (28)
evaluation10
feature-extraction10
keras10
matrix-factorization10
content-based-recommendation10
collaborative-filtering10
recommender-system10
slim10
k-nearest-neighbours10
recommender10
recall10
adversarial-attacks9
defense9
machine-learning9
adversarial-machine-learning9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
merrafelice/Adversarial-Machine-Learning-in-recommender-Systems
Apr 2020 - Feb 2021
Contributions:5 commits, 1 push in 10 months
sisinflab/TAaMR
Apr 2020 - Sep 2020
Targeted Adversarial Attack against Multimedia Recommender Systems (TAaMR) at DSML2020
Contributions:34 commits, 34 pushes in 5 months
pytorchrecommenderdeep-learningadversarialmachine-learning
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