Luca Mocerino
Research Scientist II at Microsoft
Turin, Piedmont, Italy
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Top SchoolLuca Mocerino is an AI research scientist and Ph.D. in Computer Engineering with nine years of experience building efficient deep learning systems and production-grade NLP models. Currently a Research Scientist II at Microsoft, he leads large-scale experiments, mentors junior researchers, and patents novel algorithms in language modeling and Retrieval Augmented Generation for both small and large language models. His background spans academia and industry—developing sparsity, quantization, and custom encoding schemes during a PhD at Politecnico di Torino and shipping efficient ASR and AI models at Nuance. Based in Turin, he also mentors startups through Microsoft for Startups, helping founders translate research-driven ideas into scalable products. Notably, his work combines low-level model compression techniques with practical deployment pipelines, enabling state-of-the-art models to run on constrained hardware.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Engineering at Università degli Studi di Napoli 'Federico II'Liceo Classico Scientifico Statale "Vittorio Imbriani"Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Torino
Italian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (19)
rank6
keras6
floating-point6
deep-learning6
sparse-matrix6
machine-learning6
math6
matrix6
python6
reduce6
mlp2
cpu2
pytorch2
efficientnet2
visual-recognition2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
lucamocerino/Fog_contest
Oct 2016 - Jun 2017
Contributions:161 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
lucamocerino/Binary-Neural-Networks-PyTorch-1.0
Aug 2020 - Jan 2022
BNNs (XNOR, BNN and DoReFa) implementation for PyTorch 1.0+
Contributions:26 commits, 2 PRs, 12 pushes in 1 year 6 months
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