AI, Search and Cloud

AI, Search, Infra Platforms at scale for Cloud

Google Cloud technology solutions across EMEA and Globally

- Technical management of Google Cloud teams. Run Kubernetes, VMs, Borg, Serverless and UX teams.- Warsaw Site Lead. Antonio grew a Google cross-functional site of 450+ engineers working on cloud technologies in strong collaboration with other international sites and sale functions.

Vision: using deep learning and machine learning techniques to early detect cancer so that every patient can survive within this decade

Increasing science culture awareness, Author of "Deep Learning for Keras", three editions in five languages

Transforming the traditional academic publishing with modern data-driven methodologies. The goal is to discover, disambiguate, and benchmark relevant scientific entities (e.g. researchers, institutions, organizations, articles) extracted from heterogeneous streams of scholar and industrial information. Main achievements:- Search platform for ScienceDirect and Scopus - Big-data platforms for ML and analytics- Recommendation engine, “The Spotify of Academia”- Management of Newsflo, a company acquired for benchmarking entities on multiple media sources- Management of global teams located in Amsterdam, London, and New York

Built a worldwide web search infrastructure based on state-of-the-art machine learning and cloud-based techniques. The goal was to provide a compelling user experience competitive with Google. Notable results:- First world-wide scalable combination of ‘knowledge graph’ with suggestion as you type technologies. It “has taken search suggestions, autocomplete, and semantic search to a whole new level”. Lead the integration into both Microsoft properties (Microsoft.com, Bing.com, Xbox.com, and Windows 7) and Facebook.- Double digit increase of UK ads revenues with innovative machine learning technologies- Creation of a real-time clustering platform for processing an evolving stream of news- Golden Star Award for machine learning and AA interviewer recognition for hiring long term talents- Technical management of global teams located in London, Paris, and Wroclaw working with teams in India, China, Europe, and U.SPress Releases:- “Our favourite is Page Zero, which quickly provides you likely answers to your search before loading full pages of results”, refinery- "This is completely amazing. There's always room for accommodating better things. It just goes to show that you can't simply ignore Bing even if you totally revere Google.", crazyenginners- “Bing Autosuggest Expands to Take on Instant Search, Knowledge Graph In One Fell Swoop .. has taken search suggestions, autocomplete, semantic search to a whole new level”, SearchEngineWatch- ”Facebook is a partner with Googles biggest rival, Bing, to handle web searches.”, SearchEngineWatch- ”Bing searchbox now auto-suggests names as you type. Because many people share the same name, this also means that it is now easier to tell Bing who exactly you are looking for before you even hit the return key.", Techcrunch- ”Making it more efficient to search the web from Facebooks search bar will give users an incentive to use Facebook search rather than going to a separate search engine like Google”, insideFacebook

Created a web search competitive web search engine with the goal of increasing the company market share in U.S., Europe, and Japan. Important accomplishments: - Run Ask.com global web search ranking including Web freshness, News, Blog, Video- Delivery of Daily beast, a site winning the “Time, 50 Best Websites News & Info” recognition- Winner of IAC, Horizon Award for being a top performer above and beyond the expectation- Coordination of teams sitting in Italy and London working with NYC, California and ChinaPress Releases- "Five who are changing the face of the Internet", Newsweek - "50 Best Websites 2010", Time- "Ask.com has a pretty original approach to the old-time, old-school, traditional maybe, view of news", Techcrunch- "My vote - thumbs up. Ask.com has done well integrating social media with news in a clean, easy-to-use interface. Features like story history could save me time", Marketingpilgrim

Established the first Ask.com European research center for attracting talent and increasethe innovation within the company. Selected outcomes:- Delivery of Ask.com Image Search engine, a web site considered as “a worthy alternative toGoogle” by PC-World, and delivery of Ask.com news search engine- Winner of Ask.com, Emerging Leader Award

Focused on Web Information Retrieval: Clustering and Ranking. Main achievements:- Published 5 papers at WWW05 about: - Web Classification, the search model nowdays used by Vivisimo/Clusty and Bing; - Real Time news Ranking, the real time search model nowdays used by Twitter; - Size of the Web, about 11.5 billions pages in 2005Press Releases: - http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2062347/Research-Papers-Rankings-Link-Farms-Personalization-and-PageRank-Collusion - http://searchenginewatch.com/article/2062065/New-Estimate-Puts-Web-Size-At-11.5-Billion-Pages-Compares-Search-Engine-Coverage

Co-created one of the first search companies in Europe for organizing web information.A number of activities:- Creation of an index of 150M web pages in 13 countries with additional 40M images, 3Mvideos, 3M audio mp3, and thousands of Usenet groups served to almost all Italian ISPs- Sold the company to Tiscali, the second largest European ISP for 7 million Euro (used forsustaining the company’s growth)

Early research in web information retrieval, parallel computing and distributed systems.Main work:- Co-developed Arianna, the 1st Italian search engine, and provided classification technologiesto Fireball the 1st German search engine.

Developing Arianna, one of the first search engines in the world