Summary
Paolo Lucchino is a Lead Data Scientist with 15+ years combining data science, economics and public policy to build production-ready ML systems and evidence-driven interventions. He has led end-to-end projects from real-time social media monitoring and demand prediction for 40k+ attractions to cost-saving adaptive sampling for crowdsourced data that cut costs by 55%. Comfortable in client-facing and cross-functional leadership roles, he mentors data science learners and has taught MSc modules while supervising numerous applied projects. His work spans text and network modelling, geospatial clustering, randomized trials in rural Kenya and open-source contributions (gmplot), demonstrating a rare blend of academic rigour (PhD in Economic Geography) and product-focused engineering. Based in Italy, Paolo bridges government, NGO and commercial settings, turning noisy, heterogeneous data into actionable, scalable solutions. He particularly excels at designing bespoke algorithms that encode domain priorities into practical deployment pipelines.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
International Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at St. Stephen's School
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Economics and Social Anthropology, Bachelor of Arts (BA), Economics and Social Anthropology at School of Oriental and African Studies, U. of London
Master of Science (MSc), Economics, Distinction, Master of Science (MSc), Economics, Distinction at London School of Economics and Political Science
Graduate Certificate, Mathematics, Distinction, Graduate Certificate, Mathematics, Distinction at Birkbeck, University of London
Italian, Spanish, Arabic, English, Serbian