Samsung Electronics Co. – TTS Team Leader

Current Job started in Jan. 2018

TTS Project Leader for Bixby, Samsung personal assistant.
Main responsibilities: team leading; project management; data quality check; data annotation and review; text normalization; handling deployment process.

Google Inc. – Associate Linguist

Sept 2016 – Dec 2017

Joined the team who developed Google Assistant.
Main areas of expertise: TTS; ASR; NLP; error analysis; data annotation and review; labeling text for disambiguation, expansion and text normalization; phonemic transcription of lexicon entries; evaluating current system outputs.

New British Centre – English Teacher

Nov 2015 – Jul 2016

Teaching all levels of English to students of any background and age.

EDUCATION PhD Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” Oct 2012 – Jul 2016 My PhD research deals with the following topic: "Devoicing and Elision of High Vowels in Standard Japanese and in its Variants". New and innovative materials are included, based on research conducted at "La Sapienza" University and at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, where I worked as an International Exchange Student for five months (Jan – Jun 2014). I presented the results from an innovative perceptive experiment at the Italian Acoustic Society (AISV) conference in January 2015, which has been awarded with the Franco Ferrero Prize, and at the ICPhS in August 2015. Master Degree Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza” Oct 2009 – Mar 2012 First class degree, Main topics: Japanese Language and Linguistic, Oriental studies. Thesis title: "Devoicing and Elision of High Vowels in Japanese and in its Dialects". The main part of the thesis research was conducted at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, thanks to a scholarship won in 2011.

LANGUAGES • Italian – Mother tongue • English – Fluent • Japanese – Basics • French – Basics

SKILLS • Acoustic Phonetics – Very good • Communication – Very good • Microsoft Office – Very good • Problem solving – Very good • Computational Linguistics – Good • Project Management (PMP, Agile and Scrum) – Good • Team Leadership – Good • Programming (Bash, Python, JavaScript) – Basics