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Roi Blanco
Principal Scientist at Amazon
Roi Blanco is a Principal Scientist at Amazon, based in Madrid, Spain. He has a strong academic background, having previously worked as an Assistant Lecturer at the University of A Coruña from 2007 to 2012. His research interests primarily focus on natural language processing, information retrieval, web search, and large-scale information access.156
Blanco has contributed to various academic publications and workshops related to information retrieval and has been involved in enhancing customer experiences at Amazon through advancements in generative AI.23 His expertise is recognized within the field, and he maintains an active presence on platforms like LinkedIn and ResearchGate, where he shares insights on his work and research findings.47
Highlights
This week we've released our cool, tech-savvy customer experience that utilizes machine learning models for summarizing reviews that I've developed with my sidekicks Diego Marcheggiani, Nikos Voskarides, David Martínez Martínez and Fran Valero (from an idea that spawned ages ago with Hugo Zaragoza and Lluis Marquez). I can't count the amount of sleep I've lost over this, but it's all worth it seeing how proud I am of this team for making it happen.
A big shout-out to Vaughn Schermerhorn and Hani M.M. Al-Shater for your leadership, strategic guidance, and for providing a perfect home for this technology.
While creating a demo these days using LLMs might sound like a piece of cake, getting them into production is a monster task. This milestone could not have been achieved without the countless contributions from a host of colleagues (my apologies if I've missed someone) - big kudos to everyone for making this epic project come to life: Radu Moiceanu, Sara Yadegari, Alina Gryaznova, Melecio Ponte, Volodymyr Pronyshyn, Homer Lin Dong, Ebram Mitry, Elizabeth Mansfield, George Petre, Yehya Abouelnaga, Salma Kheiravar, Laura Ujereh, PMP, Amornthip Rakkwamsook, Zhi Hong, Saurabh Dagia, Brian Thurston Bralczyk, Ben Pahnke, Luca Agostino Rubino
A special thanks goes to Jesús Díaz Gandía, Filippo Squillace, Gustavo Muenz, Max Blekhter and Alexandre Klementiev, who were involved in building the tech when it was a mere wacky idea with a Sci-Fi feel.
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