Summary
Stefano Pacifico is a founder and AI researcher with 11 years of experience building applied NLP and multi-agent systems, currently leading Epistemic AI to create the most comprehensive AI-driven information platform for life sciences. He blends hands-on research from roles at Bloomberg, Bridgewater spin-offs, and academic labs with product leadership, turning advanced semantic tech and information extraction into production-grade services. Stefano has a track record of founding and shaping communities—from the City Artificial Intelligence Meetup to AI4Good—and often focuses on transparent, shareable research practices. Trained at Columbia and Sapienza and pursuing a part-time PhD in AI, he pairs formal machine learning expertise with practical startup execution. Under his leadership Epistemic leverages deep NLP, knowledge graphs, and multi-agent coordination to tackle complex domain knowledge problems that are hard to automate.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Liceo Classico (Humanities High School), Liceo Classico (Humanities High School) at Istituto Santa Maria
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) (part time) Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) (part time) Artificial Intelligence at Mednarodna podiplomska šola Jožefa Stefana
MSc Computer Science, MSc Computer Science at Columbia University
MSc Computer Engineering, MSc Computer Engineering at Sapienza Università di Roma
English, Italian, Spanish, French