Lorenzo Porcaro
Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Sapienza Università di Roma
Rome, Lazio, Italy
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Top SchoolLorenzo Porcaro is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow and interdisciplinary research scientist with 10 years of experience at the intersection of recommender systems, music information retrieval, and science policy. He holds a PhD from Universitat Pompeu Fabra and has combined academic roles at the Music Technology Group with industry positions at SoundCloud, BMAT, and MonkingMe, giving him a rare blend of research depth and product-focused engineering. Lorenzo also served as a Scientific Project Officer at the European Commission, translating technical research into funded, policy-relevant initiatives. Based in Rome, he mentors emerging tech talent and advises on diversity-focused programs, reflecting a commitment to widening participation in tech. Notably, his career moves show consistent focus on applied music tech—turning signal processing and ML research into deployable content identification and recommendation systems.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at Universitat Pompeu FabraBachelor’s Degree, Bachelor’s Degree at Sapienza Università di Roma
Catalan, French, Spanish, Italian, English
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Github Skills (21)
popularity10
music-information-retrieval9
yelp8
entity7
espn7
social-network-analysis6
sentiment-analysis6
twitter6
nlp5
semantic5
nodejs4
natural-language-processing4
ubuntu3
named-entity-recognition3
metadata3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
LPorcaro/longterm-musdiv
Jul 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:85 commits, 17 pushes in 1 year 4 months
LPorcaro/music-diversity-analysis
Oct 2020 - Oct 2022
Contributions:21 commits, 14 pushes in 2 years
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