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Name	Vittorio Perera
Label	Applied Scientist
Email	vittorio dot perera at gmail dot com
Url	https://vdperera.github.io/
Summary	I am an applied researcher and software engineer passionate about building in the speech/NLP space. I love finding simple and elegant solutions to complex problems. In my day-to-day I strive to write readable, maintainable code. I also run rigorous, reliable evaluations to ensure models and experiments truly reflect their performance. My goal is to create systems that are not only powerful, but also built to last.

Work

2024.10 - present
Lead Member of Technical Staff

Salesforce, Inc.

Enable voice interaction for Agentforce. Integrate the technology developed at Tenyx into Salesforce existing stack to deliver a fully configurable voice assistant to all the existing Salesforce customers.
2022.07 - 2024.09
Founding Machine Learning Engineer

Tenyx, Inc.

Realized the initial idea of a voice agent natively powered by LLMs into a product serving hundreds of calls every day. De-risked initial technology. Built first POC and developed it into a full-fledged product. Deployed and maintained Tenyx voice agents to serve live traffic.
2018.11 - 2022.06
Applied Scientist

Amazon - Lab126

Developed a deep learning-based approach to dialog management empowering developers to create natural, human-like voice experiences on Alexa. Trained and evaluated generative model enabling the automated generation of Alexa prompts, lifting the need for human authored inputs.

Education

2013.09 - 2018.06
Ph.D.

Carnegie Mellon University

Computer Science
2009.09 - 2013.06
Master of Science

Sapienza University

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
2009.06 - 2005.09
Bachelor of Engineering

Sapienza University

Artificial Intelligence and Robotics

Skills

	Machine Learning
	Deep Learning
	Neural Networks
	LLMs
	Transformers

	Programming
	Python
	Pytorch

Languages

	Italian
	Native speaker

	English
	Fluent

	French
	Intermediate