Alessandro Benedetti is an Apache Lucene/Solr committer and Solr PMC member.
Director and R&D Software Engineer at Sease Ltd.
His focus is on R&D in Information Retrieval, Information Extraction, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Learning. He firmly believes in Open Source as a way to build a bridge between Academia and Industry and facilitate the progress of applied research.
Experience with a great variety of clients has taught him to be a proficient and professional consultant.
When he isn’t on clients’ projects, he is actively contributing to the open-source community and presenting the applications of leading-edge techniques in real-world scenarios at meet-ups and conferences such as ECIR, the Lucene/Solr Revolution, Community Over Code (ex ApacheCon), Haystack, FOSDEM, Berlin Buzzword, and Open Source Summit.