Franco Salvetti
c/o Bing Microsoft Powerset
Suite 330
475 Brannan St.
San Francisco, CA 94107 USA
+1 (415) 848-7000

Franco Salvetti
c/o Department of Computer Science
University of Colorado at Boulder
430 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309-0430 USA

Franco Salvetti holds a position as Senior SDE Manager of the Reference Answer team at Bing (previously Natural Language Scientist at Powerset, Inc. now acquired by Microsoft) with responsibility on the scientific aspects related to Web Search Technologies (e.g., Mapz, Factz and Instant Answers), and Human-Computer Interaction. Previously as a research scientist at Umbria Inc. (acquaried by J.D. Power) he worked on projects involving Information Extraction, Sentiment Analysis, Text Analysis and Graph Theory. Prior to this, he worked for Google in the area of Relation Extraction, IBM Research on a project about Social Network Analysis, Bioserve Space Technology and various start-up companies in Italy. Salvetti earned a Masters (summa cum laude) in Information Science at the University of Milan (Italy), and a Masters in Computer Science from the University of Colorado at Boulder (USA). He is currently working on his Ph.D. with Prof. James H. Martin at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Salvetti frequently publishes within different scientific areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, the Semantic Web, Chaos Theory, and Social Network Analysis. He has been invited by HP Labs Palo Alto to present his work about the Semantic Web, and by the Association of Computational Linguistics to present his work on Sentiment Analysis. Salvetti continues to be involved in professional associations such as American Association for Artificial Intelligence and Association for Computational Linguistics and he has been serving in the program committee of numerous international conferences.

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