Scholar
Nicola De Cao
Google Scholar ID: CqTR3sIAAAAJ
Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
Citations & Impact
Citations
14,477
H-index
22
i10-index
22
Publications
20
Co-authors
46
list available
Publications
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Resume (English only)
Research Experience
- Oct 2022–present: Research Scientist at Google, London – fundamental research in deep learning for search engines and QA algorithms
- Jan 2022–Jul 2022: Research Scientist at Hugging Face, London – sparse retrieval systems combined with large language models
- Jun 2020–Feb 2021: Research Engineer at Facebook, London – entity linking and retrieval using large-scale multilingual generative models, leading to two publications
- Jun 2019–Sept 2019: Applied Scientist at Amazon, Berlin – unsupervised topic modeling for Amazon Search
- Jan 2017–Jul 2018: Research Assistant at University of Amsterdam – developed GANs for molecular graph prediction (de novo drug discovery) and VAEs in non-Euclidean latent spaces, resulting in three publications
- Jan 2016–Jul 2016: Research Assistant at University of Padua – developed tools and researched botnet detection for SPRITZ Security and Privacy Research Group
- Apr 2012–Jul 2018: Software Developer at SirJo Industrial Automation – full-stack web development and database administration
Background
- Incoming Research Scientist at Google AI in London, UK
- Research focuses on Machine Reading Comprehension (Question Answering)
- Develops neural models that retrieve information from document collections and answer complex questions
- Also works on Entity Linking and Entity Disambiguation
- Interested in (semi-)supervised and unsupervised deep neural networks combined with reasoning and reinforcement learning for Natural Language Understanding
- Former member of EdinburghNLP and AmsterdamNLP research groups
