There's a lesson here, and I'm not going to be the one to figure it out.
Educated in several acronyms across the globe (UNISR, SFI, MIT), I was co-founder and CTO of Tooso, a NLP / IR startup in San Francisco acquired by TSX:CVO.
I led Coveo’s A.I. and MLOps roadmap from scale-up to IPO, and built out Coveo Labs, an applied R&D practice rooted in collaboration (e.g. Stanford, Outerbounds, Netflix, Farfetch, Microsoft, NVIDIA), open source and open science.
Having built end-to-end data pipelines at garage, growth and IPO scale, I happily shared all my mistakes at Reasonable Scale in a series of articles.
I’m a proud NLP advisor for Plural, and Adj. Professor of ML at NYU, which is mostly notable because it is the only job I ever had that my parents (sort of) understand.
I’m building a new company now and I’m always happy to chat about DataOps, MLOps and NLP.
I occasionally share code, ideas and teaching materials; if you have no intention of selling me anything, you can also try me on Linkedin.
I talk a lot, and I’m sometimes asked to do so by friends in industry - from startups to Fortune 500 - and academia: popular projects and papers are highlighted (for readers with insomnia) at the end of this page.
My recent research sits at the intersection of language, learning and retrieval.
I am co-organizer of SIGIR eCom, Industry Sponsorship Chair for CIKM 2022, and I’ve been involved in many NLP and IR events (COLING, ECONLP, ECNLP, EMNLP, SIRIP). My work has been presented in venues such as NAACL, WWW, RecSys and Nature journals: our paper on cognitively-inspired query embeddings won the Best Paper Award at NAACL 21.
As a true SFI alumnus, I am an old-fashioned generalist, and I gave tiny contributions to other fields mostly as a way to spend more time with old friends: computational social sciences, networks, philosophy of mind, political science.
In previous lives, I managed to get a Ph.D., simulate a pre-Columbian civilization, document biases in national elections and give an academic talk on videogames. For some reasons, few of my improbable “achievements” received ample press coverage in national outlets.
Some time before Brad Pitt’s movie, I led one of the first attempts of running sophisticated analytics for a professional basketball team.
I also led the first data analysis and vizualization effort on Milan’s bike-sharing service. No bikers (and no bureaucrats) were harmed for the project.
The content of jacopotagliabue.it are released under the BY-NC-ND license; my chibi has been designed by the incredibly talented wisesnail.
Last update: February 2023.
Quick links to selected projects, talks, papers, datasets: if there’s a paper, talk, deck you know I have, but you can’t find it (here or elsewhere), please do get in touch directly.
Aside from research and tutorials, our datasets have been successfully used by dozens of master students to defend their thesis at Tillburg University and Politecnico in Milan.