Filipe Mesquita
Vice President Of Research at Diffbot
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolFilipe Mesquita is a hands-on technology leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling data-driven products and teams, currently serving as Vice President of Research at Diffbot. He blends applied research and production engineering, having helped launch Diffbot’s Knowledge Graph and Natural Language API to extract structured data from the public web at scale. A Ph.D. from the University of Alberta, his research on open relation extraction has been published in EMNLP, NAACL, SIGMOD, TWEB, and SIGIR, underpinning many of Diffbot’s core capabilities. Previously he led data science at Mitre Media, where his team’s models boosted ad revenue by 25%, demonstrating a rare mix of academic rigor and measurable business impact. Based in San Francisco, he excels at hiring and mentoring cross-functional teams to operationalize cutting-edge NLP and knowledge-base technologies. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic researcher who turns complex academic ideas into reliable, production-grade systems.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computing Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computing Science at University of AlbertaTechnical High School, Informatics, Technical High School, Informatics at Fundação Matias MachlineBachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Universidade Federal do Amazonas
Portuguese, English
Github Skills (52)
keyword-extraction10
relation-extraction10
extraction10
relation10
extractor10
diffbot10
latent-dirichlet-allocation9
linguistics9
lda9
cuda9
knowledge-base-population9
nlp8
bit8
gpt8
natural-language-processing8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
U-Alberta/exemplar
Mar 2014 - Nov 2021
An open relation extraction system
Contributions:1 review, 9 commits, 2 PRs in 7 years 10 months
nlpextractionldaexemplarlatent-dirichlet-allocation
diffbot/knowledge-net
Sep 2019 - Jun 2020
KnowledgeNet: A Benchmark Dataset for Knowledge Base Population
Contributions:15 commits, 2 PRs, 13 pushes in 9 months
ldaknowledgeentity-linkingdatasetknowledge-base
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