Lorenzo Thione

Current

• Advisor at Dolores Labs
• Advisor at 8coupons.com
• Founder & Board Member at StartOut

• Principal, Producer at Sing Out, Louise! Productions
• Principal Program Manager, Powerset/Bing at Microsoft

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Past

• Founder & Product Architect at Powerset, Inc.
• Sr. Research Scientist at Commercenet Consortium
• Research Scientist at FX Palo Alto Laboratory

• Research Assistant at University of Texas

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Education

• University of Texas at Austin
• Politecnico di Milano

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Computer Software

Websites

• My Company
• My Blog

Lorenzo Thione’s Summary

Lorenzo Thione’s Specialties:

Computational Linguisitics ( Discourse Processing, Parsing, Statistical Language Processing) ; Search & Information Retrieval ; Data Mining

Lorenzo Thione’s Experience

• Advisor

  Dolores Labs

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  2009 — Present (less than a year)

• Advisor

  8coupons.com

  (Privately Held; Information Services industry)

  July 2009 — Present (5 months)

• Founder & Board Member

  StartOut

  (Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  June 2009 — Present (6 months)

• Principal, Producer

  Sing Out, Louise! Productions

  (Performing Arts industry)

  October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  A theatrical production and investment company involved in several Broadway and national productions (Catch me If You Can, Addams Family, West Side Story, Xanadu National Tour, Slava Snowshow on Broadway) and developing new musical theater works (Worlds Apart, Allegiance).

• Principal Program Manager, Powerset/Bing

  Microsoft

  (Public Company; MSFT; Computer Software industry)

  September 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

• Founder & Product Architect

  Powerset, Inc.

  (Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Internet industry)

  September 2006 — September 2008 (2 years 1 month)

  I started Powerset with an exciting vision to change online search, based on a better understanding of documents and users' intent. In August 2008 Microsoft acquired Powerset with the vision of bringing its team and technologies together to help Microsoft Live Search become the world's best search engine.

• Sr. Research Scientist

  Commercenet Consortium

  (Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Venture Capital & Private Equity industry)

  March 2006 — September 2006 (7 months)

• Research Scientist

  FX Palo Alto Laboratory

  (Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

  January 2003 — March 2006 (3 years 3 months)

• Research Assistant

  University of Texas

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

  September 2001 — December 2002 (1 year 4 months)

Lorenzo Thione’s Education

• University of Texas at Austin

  MSE , Computer Engineering , August 2001 — December 2002

• Politecnico di Milano

  BSE Equivalence , Computer Engineering , 1997 — 2001

  Transferred to University of Texas for direct continuation on to a Master Degree in Engineering.

Additional Information

Lorenzo Thione’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Blog

Lorenzo Thione’s Groups:

Association of Computational Linguistics, American Association for Artificial Intelligence, Linguistic Society of America

•    Microsoft - Current and Former Employees
•    Natural Language Processing People
•    Broadway Producers and Investors
•    Active Broadway and Theater Finance Network for Producers and Investors
•    TEDxSV

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