Luca Naso
Founder And CEO at Etna Hitech
Catania, Sicily, Italy
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Top SchoolLuca Naso is a founder and CEO with a decade of experience turning data science research into customer-facing products, currently leading Koexai to build AI-driven solutions for education from his base in Catania, Sicily. He combines hands-on technical roots—PhD-level training in astrophysics and early career work in numerical simulation and HPC—with product leadership roles spanning Chief Data Officer, Product Development Manager, and Data Innovation Manager. Luca excels at coordinating multi-partner research and development projects, recruiting teams, and translating complex data into simple, impactful experiences embodied by Koexai’s “Data Smile” philosophy. He has a history of community-building (founding Big Data for You) and public-facing initiatives, including an ambitious long-distance running project that demonstrates endurance and discipline beyond the office. This mix of academic rigor, startup grit, and storytelling around data positions him to bridge research, productization, and real-world impact in AI for education.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Liceo Scientifico "Ettore Majorana", CaltagironeDiploma of Licenza Sector of Experimental Sciences, Diploma of Licenza Sector of Experimental Sciences at Scuola Superiore di CataniaPhD Astrophysics, PhD Astrophysics at SISSALaurea Physics, Laurea Physics at Università di Catania
Italian, English, Chinese, French, German, Spanish
Github Skills (31)
data-extraction8
plugin8
six8
extraction8
pdf-files8
seo7
wordpress7
metadata7
pdfminer7
parser7
pdf-parser6
flask6
php6
wordpress-plugin6
meta-tags6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
lucanaso/nlp-intro
Sep 2020 - Dec 2022
Contributions:20 commits, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 3 months
BigDataforYou/movie_recommendation_workshop_1
Mar 2017 - Jun 2017
Recommendtion system (workshop)
Contributions:11 commits, 11 pushes in 3 months
recommenderworkshopmachine-learningsvdrecall
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