Hi, I’m Silvia
I build machine-learning systems that have to work outside the notebook.
I’m a Senior Lead Machine Learning Engineer at Upwork, working on search, recommendation, and matching for a marketplace with millions of active freelancers.
I started in research, with a PhD in Computer Science focused on NLP, representation learning, and topic models. I care about the assumptions behind a model, whether an evaluation really measures the thing we care about, and what the results are telling us—not just whether a metric went up.
Today, I work closer to the product: designing ranking and recommendation systems, running experiments, and bringing ML into production.
I also like making knowledge reusable. That has led to papers at ACL, EACL, and EMNLP, and to open-source projects used by researchers and practitioners around the world.
Explore
- Research & Open Source — PhD research and projects including OCTIS, Contextualized Topic Models, and FashionCLIP.
- Talks — selected presentations and workshops.
- Contact — ways to get in touch.