Scholar
Andrea Vattani
Google Scholar ID: QN_y3qQAAAAJ
ML Leadership at Reddit, Computer Science PhD from UC San Diego
Citations & Impact
Citations
900
H-index
8
i10-index
8
Publications
20
Co-authors
20
list available
Contact
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Research has been published in numerous conferences and journals, including ICML, NeurIPS (NIPS), VLDB, AI-STATS, SPAA, and EC. Research has been applied to commercial machine-learning software (e.g., Cloudera ML/Oryx, Apache Spark ML, H2O.ai) and to DARPA's 'Red Balloon Network' and 'Shredder' challenges.
Research Experience
- Currently co-founder and Chief Scientist for Spiketrap. Prior to Spiketrap, worked as a Senior Lead Software Engineer at Amazon Goodreads, guiding advances in machine learning applications and leading the move of Goodreads infrastructure into Amazon private cloud.
Education
- PhD in Computer Science from the University of California, San Diego, under the guidance of Sanjoy Dasgupta and Mohan Paturi. Also received guidance from Ravi Kumar during research internships at Yahoo!.
Background
- Research interests include machine learning, big data analysis, social networks, and game theory. Born and raised in Italy, loves soccer, cooking, playing the guitar, and reading.
Miscellany
- Graduate of StartX, Stanford's startup accelerator for top entrepreneurs.
