Francesca Lazzeri
Senior Director Of Data Science And AI, Cloud AI
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolFrancesca Lazzeri is a Senior Director at Microsoft leading data science and ML teams that build end-to-end AI solutions to drive customer experience and Cloud growth. With over a decade of experience bridging research and production, she has led model lifecycle efforts from feature engineering and algorithm design to deployment, operations, and governance across industries including energy, retail, healthcare, and IoT. Holding a Ph.D. in Economics and Technology Innovation and roles at Harvard, MIT and Columbia, she combines rigorous academic grounding with product-focused engineering leadership. Francesca advises EU AI projects and startups while teaching AI with Python, signaling a commitment to shaping both industry practice and the next generation of data scientists. Notably, she blends deep econometric insight with hands-on ML engineering at scale, making her adept at translating complex statistical research into operational cloud services.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Economics and Institutional Studies, Summa cum Laude - G.P.A. 4.0/4.0, Master’s Degree, Economics and Institutional Studies, Summa cum Laude - G.P.A. 4.0/4.0 at LUISS Guido Carli UniversityPostdoc Research Fellowship, Economics, Postdoc Research Fellowship, Economics at Harvard UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Economics and Technology Innovation, Summa cum Laude - G.P.A. 4.0/4.0, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Economics and Technology Innovation, Summa cum Laude - G.P.A. 4.0/4.0 at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna
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Github Skills (8)
azure10
microsoft-azure9
microsoft9
developer-relations8
machine-learning5
deep-learning4
predictive4
maintenance3
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Azure-Samples/MachineLearningSamples-DeepLearningforPredictiveMaintenance
Nov 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:53 commits, 3 pushes in 1 month
deep-learningmachine-learning
FrancescaLazzeri/FrancescaLazzeriRepo0908162259
Sep 2017 - Jul 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 2 branches, 11 comments in 3 years 10 months
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