Leonardo Emili is a Machine Learning Research Engineer with eight years of experience specializing in NLP and deep learning, currently working on Apple Translate after earlier roles at Translated and an Apple research internship. He holds a summa cum laude MSc in Computer Science from Sapienza and has applied unsupervised methods to multilingual named-entity representation and model pruning for ASR language models. Leonardo bridges academic rigor and product-focused research, moving prototypes into production-grade translation and speech models. Based in Aachen, he combines strong theoretical foundations with hands-on engineering across multilingual NLP pipelines—a background that helped him contribute to cross-lingual projects spanning nine languages.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus+, Informatics, Erasmus+, Informatics at Vienna University of Technology
High School Diploma, 100/100, High School Diploma, 100/100 at I.T.T. C. Colombo
Master's degree, Computer Science, 110/110 cum Laude, Master's degree, Computer Science, 110/110 cum Laude at Sapienza Università di Roma
Contributions:1 release, 112 commits, 9 pushes in 8 months
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Leonardo Emili - Machine Learning Research Engineer at Apple