# PERSON
Name: Aldo Lipani
Title: Professor of Machine Learning at UCL and the Founder of Eloquent AI
Founder: Eloquent AI

# IMAGES
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# BIOGRAPHY
Aldo Lipani is a Professor (Associate) of Machine Learning at University College London (UCL), where he is a member of the Natural Language Processing group. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from TU Wien in 2018. His academic journey includes a postdoctoral role at UCL and research visits to NIST, NII Tokyo, Microsoft Research, the University of Glasgow, and the University of Amsterdam. In 2025, he founded Eloquent AI, which builds AI operators for financial services.

# RESEARCH INTERESTS
1. Large Language Models - reasoning, post-training learning, collaboration with NVIDIA on browser-use LLMs.  
2. Conversational Systems for Search & Recommendation - user modelling and simulation.  
3. Information System Evaluation - biases, fairness, evaluation metrics, test collections.  
4. Machine Learning - applications in conversational systems, neural point processes, geospatial and environmental modeling.  
5. Bias and Fairness - addressing representation bias, pool bias, and fairness in search engines and LMs.

# EDUCATION
Ph.D. Computer Science, TU Wien, 2014-2018  
M.Sc. Computer Engineering, University of Bologna, 2010-2012  
B.Sc. Computer Engineering, University of Catania, 2007-2010  

# AWARDS
2021 - Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge  
2018 - NVIDIA GPU Grant Program  
2017 - 1st Place, Microsoft One Week Hackathon  
2016 - ACM SIGIR Ambassador, 50th ACM Turing Award  
2014 - 1st Place, Math Wikipedia Task, NTCIR  

# PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
2025- | Co-founder, Eloquent AI  
2018- | Professor (Associate) of Machine Learning, UCL  
2020-2022 | Senior Machine Learning Researcher, Raft  
2019-2020 | Visiting Researcher, Bloomberg  
2017 | Research Intern, Microsoft Research  
2017 | Visiting Researcher, NIST  
2016 | Visiting Researcher, University of Amsterdam  
2016 | Visiting Researcher, University of Glasgow  
2015 | Research Intern, National Institute of Informatics (Tokyo)  
2013-2014 | Software Engineer, IKARUS Security Software GmbH  

# KEYWORDS
Aldo Lipani, Machine Learning, Large Language Models, UCL, Eloquent AI, Conversational AI, Bias and Fairness in AI, Information Retrieval, Natural Language Processing