ilaria petreti
INFORMATION RETRIEVAL / MACHINE LEARNING ENGINEER
APACHE SOLR COMMITTER
Data Scientist and R&D Software Engineer, her focus is on integrating Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Search Quality Evaluation into information retrieval systems. She actively contributes to open-source search technologies, and is passionate about exploring new technologies and applying state-of-the-art solutions in search.
Biography
After an initial experience in the healthcare sector, believing strongly in the power of Big Data and Digital Transformation, Ilaria earned a Master in Data Science.
Since joining the Sease team (in 2020), she has gained a diverse range of experiences through projects related to Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing for Information Retrieval systems.
Ilaria has been working on integrating Learning To Rank and Search Quality Evaluation in e-commerce systems. More recently, she’s been involved in projects related to vector search and the integration of LLMs.
Additionally, she is an active member of the information retrieval research community, regularly sharing her knowledge through blog posts and talks, contributing to open source projects, and participating in international conferences (such as Berlin Buzzword and ElasticON).
Expertise
- Information Retrieval/Search
- Python
- Apache Solr
- Machine Learning
- LLMs and Generative AI
Research Topics
✓ Learning to Rank
✓ Natural Language Processing
✓ Neural (vector) search
✓ Search Quality Evaluation
✓ LLMs in Search
