Lucia Specia
Senior Director Of Research Engineering at Epic Games
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolLucia Specia is a senior research engineering leader with 14+ years bridging academic NLP and industry productization, currently serving as Senior Director of Research Engineering at Epic Games after progressing from Director in 2023. She holds a PhD in Computer Science and maintains concurrent professorships (Imperial College London and past roles at Sheffield and Dublin City), blending deep scholarly rigour with hands-on engineering and startup experience as founder and chief scientist of CONTEX.AI. Lucia’s career spans research roles at Facebook AI, Microsoft Research India and Xerox, reflecting a long track record of translating cutting-edge language technologies into scalable systems. Known for navigating both academia and fast-moving industry teams, she brings a rare mix of leadership, publication-grade expertise and product-minded delivery across large technical organisations.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
M.Sc. Computer Science, M.Sc. Computer Science at UFSCar - AlumniPhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at USP - Universidade de São PauloB.Sc. Computer Science, B.Sc. Computer Science at Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná
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Github Skills (9)
pipeline5
nlp3
natural-language-processing2
translation2
harvest2
delphi1
machine-translation1
pascal1
quest1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ImperialNLP/ReadingGroup
Nov 2018 - Mar 2019
Contributions:22 commits, 19 pushes, 1 comment in 3 months
lspecia/QualityEstimation
Jan 2012 - Sep 2012
Contributions:21 commits in 7 months
estimationquality-estimationqualitywmt
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