
Director of Search Technology at OneRiot
Greater Denver Area

Director of Search Technology at OneRiot
Greater Denver Area
Question Answering, linear/discrete optimization and heuristics, machine learning, artificial intelligence, classification, ranking, compression, natural language processing, cryptography, clustering.
C/C++, Perl, JavaScript, SQL, Python, Java • Prototypes in Perl, development in C/C++ • Extensive knowledge of STL, Boost, network and system programming on Linux environment.
(Privately Held; Internet industry)
November 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)
Invent new technologies for crawling, indexing and search. Innovate and design new products. Discover what is hot on the web right now.
(Public Company; IACI; Internet industry)
January 2008 — November 2008 (11 months)
Question Answering, Natural Language Processing, Structured/Unstructured Data, Wikipedia Search and Normalization, Query and Web Classification, Name Tagging, Ranking Optimization, Specialized Search for Recipes,TV and Events.
(Public Company; IACI; Internet industry)
January 2006 — January 2008 (2 years 1 month)
Query and Web Classification, Porn/Product/Health Query Filtering, Ranking Optimization, News Parsing and Classification, Name Tagging.
(Internet industry)
2006 — 2008 (2 years )
(Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)
August 2004 — December 2005 (1 year 5 months)
Teaching Assistant for graduate Computer Science courses with both grading and teaching assignments.
(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Euronext: CU; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)
May 2003 — September 2005 (2 years 5 months)
Summer Job Only. Optimization of routes, scheduling and capacity of taxis, buses, boats and flights for 2 of their Italian villages and airports.
(Self-Employed; 1-10 employees; Internet industry)
January 2000 — September 2005 (5 years 9 months)
Creative Director, Web Design and Development.
PhD , Computer Science , 2008 — 2008
Currently writing my thesis on "Query Log Analysis: Diseases Surveillance and Outbreaks Prediction"
PhD , Computer Science , 2006 — 2008
Took 3 courses while working at Ask.com to complete my PhD course requirement at University of Iowa.
Master , Computer Science , 2004 — 2006
Laurea , Informatica , 2002 — 2004