Matteo Catena
Senior R&D Scientist at Siren
Italy
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Top SchoolMatteo Catena is a Senior R&D Scientist based in Italy with 11 years of experience at the intersection of information retrieval, distributed systems, and data science. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from GSSI and a strong academic record (MS and BS with top honors), and has moved from high-performance research at ISTI-CNR into industry roles focused on applied search and analytics at NTENT, SpazioDati, and currently Siren. Matteo combines deep research rigour with practical product-minded engineering, shipping scalable retrieval and data platforms for real-world use cases. He is comfortable across the stack—from HPC research prototypes to production data science—and often bridges algorithmic innovation with system-level engineering. Less obvious: his career shows a sustained pattern of translating academic results into commercial products, making him effective at turning novel retrieval ideas into deployable systems.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MS), Computer science, 110/110 cum laude, Master of Science (MS), Computer science, 110/110 cum laude at Università degli Studi dell' AquilaDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer science at GSSI - Gran Sasso Science Institute
Italian, English, Spanish
Github Skills (32)
porting9
cognitive-services9
lucene8
pyspark8
apache-spark7
spark7
scala7
http7
information-retrieval7
lightgbm7
opencv7
azure7
compression6
mojibake6
deep-learning6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
catenamatteo/eliasfano
Oct 2016 - Feb 2018
Contributions:45 commits, 42 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
catenamatteo/groupvarint
Aug 2014 - Feb 2018
Contributions:30 commits, 2 PRs, 15 pushes in 3 years 5 months
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