Mattia Ciollaro
Senior Director, Artificial Intelligence at Carnegie Mellon University - Tepper School of Business
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMattia Ciollaro is a Senior Director of Artificial Intelligence and experienced educator who blends a decade of hands-on ML research and product-focused engineering to deliver practical AI solutions. With a PhD in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon and leadership roles at PayPal, Amazon Alexa, and startups, he excels at turning statistical rigor into reliable, production-ready systems. He co-founded Data Captains and Touchdown Coaching, combining consulting and talent guidance to help organizations and international STEM graduates succeed in the U.S. market. Mattia teaches graduate-level AI, data engineering, and statistics at Carnegie Mellon and Duke, reflecting a passion for mentorship alongside product delivery. He favors pragmatic product and engineering decisions over chasing model novelty, and is known for aligning deep technical expertise with business outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
MA Statistics and Applied Mathematics, MA Statistics and Applied Mathematics at Collegio Carlo AlbertoMA-equivalent Statistics, MA-equivalent Statistics at Università degli Studi di TorinoPhD Statistics, PhD Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Italian
Github Skills (64)
visualization10
python10
luigi10
orchestration-framework10
batch10
workflow-management10
dependency-resolution10
hadoop9
sentence9
json9
gaussian-processes9
rest9
api9
scheduling9
optimization9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
spreemohealth/style
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
Code style management and enforcement
Contributions:1 release, 198 commits, 18 PRs in 5 months
enforcementcode-style
mattiaciollaro/luigi_tutorial
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:38 commits, 21 pushes, 1 branch in 21 days
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