Simone Conia
Founder & CEO at Principled Intelligence
Italy
Summary
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Top SchoolSimone Conia is a founder and CEO building trust-focused AI at Principled Intelligence, with a decade of experience bridging academic research and industry. Former Assistant Professor and senior member of Sapienza's NLP group, she holds a PhD in AI & NLP and authored 40+ papers, earning Outstanding Paper awards at EMNLP and NAACL and leadership roles on major conference PCs. Her work centers on multilingual LLMs, knowledge graphs, and structured representations—especially how to integrate symbolic KGs into large language models for more reliable reasoning. She has research collaborations and research scientist experience at Apple focused on multilinguality and information intelligence, bringing product-minded rigor to foundational research. Based in Italy, Simone combines deep theoretical expertise with practical startup leadership, uniquely blending academic distinction with a founder’s drive to make AI dependable.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Liceo Scientifico Statale PNI (Progetto Nazionale Informatica), Liceo Scientifico Statale PNI (Progetto Nazionale Informatica) at Augusto Righi RomaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Sapienza Università di Roma
Italian, English, Japanese
Github Skills (24)
word-sense-disambiguation10
disambiguation9
phonetics8
computational-linguistics8
acl8
multilabel-classification7
lda7
natural-language-processing7
react7
sentence-similarity6
topic-modeling6
javascript6
word2vec6
nlp5
allennlp5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
SapienzaNLP/multilabel-wsd
Feb 2021 - Mar 2022
A multi-labeling model for knowledge integration into Word Sense Disambiguation (EACL 2021).
Contributions:9 commits, 4 pushes, 2 comments in 1 year 1 month
nlpldaknowledgesenseentity-linking
c-simone/VerbAtlas-readability
Jun 2019 - Aug 2019
Readability experiment for VerbAtlas
Contributions:360 pushes, 2 branches in 2 months
readability
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