Gabriele Modena

Sat 28 December 2024

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I’m a software engineer with a quantitative background and experience in machine learning, distributed systems, backend development, performance engineering, and the algorithmic aspects of data science.

Notes

No-frills vector search on the JVM December, 2024
Building the OpenJDK/HotSpot disassembler with Nix June, 2024
Async I/O with PyFlink May, 2024
Differential Privacy with Apache Spark October 2022
Probabilistic Nearest Neighbours March 2022
Course notes on differential privacy June 2021
Exploratory analysis of Prebid auctions April 2021
Python bytecode analysis January 2021
The Overland Track December 2020
Advent Of Code 2020, Day 5: binary boarding December 2020
My DIY mechanical keyboard project July 2018
Factorization Machines with Tensorflow February 2017
Bayesian changepoint detection with R and Stan September 2016
Learning rugby world rankings May 2016
2015 Rugby World Cup predictions October 2015
Bobo the amoeba September 2015
Ensemble learning - stacked generalization August 2015
Feature ranking with CART and Random Forests in sklearn June 2015

Publications

Publishing Wikipedia usage data with strong privacy guarantees September 2023
Learning Hadoop 2 February 2015
Analyzing Grid log data with Affinity Propagation June 2013
Estimating mental states of a depressed person with Bayesian Networks June 2013
Ict4depression: SoA applied to the treatment of depression Dec 2012
Product extraction from wikipedia (preprint) June 2009
A Metric for Software Vulnerability Identification (preprint) Jan 2009
Providing QoS by scheduling interrupt threads August 2008

Talks

Flatpaks the Nix way NixCon 2025, September 2025
The structure of CPython bytecode ING.py #1, September 2020
Machine Learning in AdTech TU/e May 2018
Bid dynamics in RTB auctions (ITA)IAB Forum Milan, December 2015
Resilient Distributed Datasets Papers We Love Amsterdam, August 2015
Approximation algorithms for stream and batch processing Search Engines Amsterdam, March 2015
Moving towards a streaming architecture Strata + Hadoop World, November 2014
Full stack analytics with Hadoop 2 Invited talk at Spaziodati, September 2014