Ignacio Iacobacci
Senior NLP Researcher at Elm Company
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolIgnacio Iacobacci is a Senior NLP Researcher and ELLIS Society member with over 15 years in NLP and two decades of software development experience, currently based in London. He has led research teams and projects that produced state-of-the-art code generation models used as the backbone of Huawei’s first Code AI assistant, and has co-authored 30+ papers in top NLP venues including ACL, EMNLP and TACL. As a tutor and course lead in Textual Data Analysis, he blends academic rigor from his PhD on neural-grounded distributional models with practical industry impact across roles at Huawei, Google, and startups. His work spans dialogue systems, QA, commonsense reasoning, and LLMs for code and autonomous agents, reflecting both deep linguistic insight and production-grade engineering. Less obvious is his long arc from early Java enterprise development to cutting-edge deep learning, giving him rare fluency across legacy systems and modern ML stacks.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Licentiate degree, Computer Science, Licentiate degree, Computer Science at Universidad de Buenos AiresDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Natural Language Processing, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Natural Language Processing at Sapienza Università di Roma
English, Portuguese, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Arabic
Github Skills (4)
phonetics7
acl7
computational-linguistics6
natural-language-processing5
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
iiacobac/LSTMEmbed
Jul 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
iiacobac/iiacobac.github.io
Jan 2025 - Feb 2025
Github Pages template for academic personal websites, forked from mmistakes/minimal-mistakes
Contributions:80 pushes in 1 month
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