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Basics
| Name | Vittorio Perera |
| Label | Applied Scientist |
| 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
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2026.07 - present Senior AI Research Engineer
EMBL
Leading development of AI agents that combine multimodal reasoning, tool use, and knowledge retrieval to accelerate scientific discovery. Collaborate with research scientists and PhD students to design and evaluate models on real-world multi-omics data, improving robustness and performance, and publish results to the broader scientific community.
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2024.10 - 2026.07 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.
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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.
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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
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2013.09 - 2018.06 Ph.D.
Carnegie Mellon University
Computer Science
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2009.09 - 2013.06 Master of Science
Sapienza University
Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
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2005.09 - 2009.06 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 | |
| Basic |