Marco Valentino
Lecturer In Artificial Intelligence & Applications Of AI
United Kingdom
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Top SchoolMarco Valentino is a Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence and Applications of AI at the University of Sheffield with 11 years of experience bridging academic research and applied AI. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Manchester focused on explanation-based scientific natural language inference and has a background in intelligent robotics and cognitive systems from top Italian universities. Marco’s work spans postdoctoral research at Idiap and hands-on projects in socially assistive robotics and smart tourism, evidencing a strong track record in interdisciplinary, user-centred AI. He combines teaching and curriculum development with active research in NLP and explainability, bringing theory into practical educational and research settings. Notably, his career path reflects a consistent focus on making AI interpretable and usable in real-world human-centred systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at The University of ManchesterMaster of Science - MS, Computer science, Intelligent robotics and advanced cognitive systems, 110/110 cum laude, Master of Science - MS, Computer science, Intelligent robotics and advanced cognitive systems, 110/110 cum laude at Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II
Italian, English
Github Skills (19)
unification8
edward7
acl7
phonetics7
computational-linguistics6
question-answering6
autoencoder6
journal6
science5
natural-language-processing5
information-retrieval5
python4
deep-learning3
generative3
tensorflow3
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ai-systems/unification_reconstruction_explanations
Apr 2020 - Aug 2022
Code for the EACL 2021 paper "Unification-based Reconstruction of Multi-hop Explanations for Science Questions"
Contributions:38 commits, 1 PR, 37 pushes in 2 years 4 months
reconstructionscienceexplanationshopunification
ai-systems/hybrid_autoregressive_inference
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:67 commits, 19 pushes, 2 comments in 10 months
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