Nico Montali
Member Of Technical Staff at Cohere
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolNico Montali is a research-driven machine learning engineer with 11 years of experience focused on reinforcement and imitation learning for autonomous vehicles, most recently conducting RL/IL research at Waymo and now a Member of Technical Staff at Cohere. He combines strong academic foundations from Politecnico di Milano and Università degli Studi di Parma (both with top honours) with hands-on industry work spanning AV research, dynamic pricing ML at BCG, and rapid prototyping roles in startups. At Waymo he progressed from Research Scientist to Senior Research Scientist, contributing to long-horizon decision-making and learning-driven autonomy solutions. Known for translating advanced RL theory into production-aware models, he brings both rigorous research instincts and pragmatic engineering discipline. Based in Zurich, he thrives at the intersection of academic rigor and product-focused ML research.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, 110 con Lode, Master's degree, Computer Science, 110 con Lode at Politecnico di Milano1° livello - Laurea L, Ingegneria informatica, 110 con Lode, 1° livello - Laurea L, Ingegneria informatica, 110 con Lode at Università degli Studi di Parma
Italian, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (27)
gymnasium10
reinforcement-learning10
deep-reinforcement-learning10
q-learning10
autonomous-driving10
pytorch9
californium9
deep-learning9
openai9
machine-learning8
openai-gym8
mathematics8
deploying8
trading7
backtesting-trading-strategies7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nicomon24/roadto-worldmodels
May 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:75 commits in 11 months
nicomon24/reinforcement-learning
Jul 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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