Nicola Bazoli
Data & Analytics Specialist
Trentino – Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy
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Top SchoolNicola Bazoli is a Data & Analytics Specialist with 13 years of experience blending rigorous statistical research and practical data engineering across academia and industry. With a PhD in Statistics from the University of Bologna and a long tenure at FBK-IRVAPP, he has led quantitative analyses and evaluation projects informing public policy while moving into applied analytics at Dedagroup. He brings hands-on skills in data cleaning, coding and LaTeX-based documentation from early research roles and consultancy, plus experience creating educational statistics content for Zanichelli. An active contributor to open-source machine translation tooling, he refactored core components of the widely used Moses decoder to improve feature consistency and add document-level tag handling. Based in Trentino–Alto Adige/Südtirol, Nicola combines academic rigor with practical engineering to turn complex datasets into actionable insights. Colleagues value his attention to reproducibility and the uncommon blend of sociological insight with deep statistical and back-end development experience.
13 years of coding experience
Laurea Magistrale LM in Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale, Laurea Magistrale LM in Sociologia e Ricerca Sociale at Università di TrentoTriennale in Sociologia, Sociologia, 105/110, Triennale in Sociologia, Sociologia, 105/110 at Università degli Studi di TrentoDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Statistics at Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna
Italian, English
Github Skills (9)
machine-translation10
c-language10
refactoring10
cprogramming-language10
software-design9
algorithm9
algorithms9
nlp8
natural-language-processing8
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
moses-smt/mosesdecoder
Sep 2012 - Jan 2016
Moses, the machine translation system
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:159 commits, 6 pushes, 2 comments in 3 years 5 months
Contributions summary:Nicola's commits primarily focused on refactoring and improving the Moses machine translation system. They made significant changes to the PhrasePenalty producer, refactoring its basic feature functions to align with the WordPenalty. This work involved modifying files related to parameter settings, static data, and feature function factories, leading to cleaner and more consistent code. Additionally, the user introduced features to handle Document-Level Translation (DLT) tags, enhancing the system's ability to process and manage metadata.
i18nmachine-translationtranslationlocalizationmoses
irstlm-team/irstlm
Jul 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:5 releases, 232 commits, 137 pushes in 6 months
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