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Name Vittorio Perera
Label Applied Scientist
Email vittorio dot perera at gmail dot com
Url https://vdperera.github.io/
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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
Pytorch

Languages

Italian
Native speaker
English
Fluent
French
Intermediate