Michele Mazza is a Data Science Technical Project Manager with 10 years of experience blending academic research and hands-on engineering to turn AI prototypes into production-ready cyber intelligence tools. Based in Tuscany, he leads multidisciplinary teams of 10+ engineers and data scientists, specializing in social media scraping, deep learning for text, and novel topic modeling using sentence embeddings to detect disinformation. His background as a web developer and graphic designer gives him a rare sensitivity for usable interfaces alongside strong backend and data-pipeline skills. He has supported public safety and journalism projects—building scrapers and analytics used by Italian authorities and a Google-funded newsroom initiative—demonstrating impact beyond academia. Currently completing a PhD in Computer Engineering, Michele keeps a practitioner’s focus on scalable data collection and actionable visual analytics.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Engineering at Università di Pisa
:cool: A simple python scraping tool that downloads video lessons from Linkedin Learning
Contributions:10 PRs, 64 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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