Pietro Lesci
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolPietro Lesci is a PhD student in Computer Science at the University of Cambridge with six years of experience building NLP and ML solutions across research labs, consulting, and industry. He combines hands-on model development—such as efficient dialogue state tracking at AWS AI Labs and large-scale text classifiers at Bain—with rigorous causal and econometrics-inspired methods to study how training choices affect language model behaviour. Comfortable in production workflows (Docker, CI/CD, MLOps, SQL) and research pipelines, he has shipped annotation systems and tooling while publishing reproducible code and web services during his academic work. Based in Cambridge, he brings a rare mix of quantitative economics training, applied data-science consulting, and deep NLP research, and even complements his technical profile with formal musical training in jazz and piano.
6 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Conservatorio di Musica "S. Giacomantonio"MSc in Economic and Social Sciences, Econometrics and Quantitative Economics, MSc in Economic and Social Sciences, Econometrics and Quantitative Economics at Università BocconiDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of CambridgeClassical Piano, Classical Piano at Accademia delle Arti Dipartimento MusicaBsc in Economics and Management, 110/110 summa cum laude, Bsc in Economics and Management, 110/110 summa cum laude at Università Cattolica del Sacro CuoreScientific High School, 95/100, Scientific High School, 95/100 at Liceo Scientifico PNI
English, Italian, French
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (180)
transformers10
language-model10
python10
flax10
datasets10
deep-learning10
computational-linguistics10
speech10
polars10
memory-mapped-file10
threaded10
rows10
pylance10
acl10
dataframes10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
MilaNLProc/wordify-webapp
Sep 2020 - Jan 2022
Contributions:36 commits, 1 push in 1 year 4 months
pietrolesci/pietrolesci.github.io
Jan 2022 - Mar 2025
A beautiful, simple, clean, and responsive Jekyll theme for academics
Contributions:4 PRs, 73 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 2 months
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