Ludovico Bessi

AI Researcher

Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland5 yrs 2 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Expert in machine learning and recommendation systems.
Contributed to YouTube's ad and shopping optimization.
Developed advanced models for abuse detection.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Machine Learning Engineer specializing in SaaS and advertising technology.

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Skills

Core Skills

Machine LearningRecommendation SystemsAdvertising TechnologyAbuse DetectionJuliaOptimization

Other Skills

PythonMatlabKerasOpenCVProbabilityCC++JavascriptLaTeXTeam-work

About

Machine Learning Engineer @Google. Worked across Abuse detection, YouTube Ads and YouTube Shopping. If you are interested in technical deep dives, my Substack is the best place: https://machinelearningatscale.substack.com

Experience

5 yrs 2 mos

Total Experience

1 yr 10 mos

Average Tenure

4 yrs 2 mos

Current Experience

Google

3 roles

Machine learning engineer

Jun 2025 – Present · 11 mos · Zurigo, Svizzera

YouTube Recommendation System for Shopping.

Machine LearningRecommendation Systems

Software engineer - Machine learning

Nov 2023 – Jun 2025 · 1 yr 7 mos · Zurigo, Svizzera

YouTube Ads: Showing the right ads, to the right users, at the right time, in the right format.

Machine LearningAdvertising Technology

Software engineer - Machine learning

Mar 2022 – Nov 2023 · 1 yr 8 mos · Zurigo, Svizzera

Lead technical efforts to prevent abuse at scale by contributing to a new Transformer based multimodal user behaviour model.

Machine LearningAbuse Detection

Cern

Technical student

Jul 2021 – Dec 2021 · 5 mos · Ginevra, Svizzera

Volvo group

Machine learning engineer intern - Master thesis

Jan 2021 – Jun 2021 · 5 mos · Goteborg, Contea di Vastra Gotaland, Svezia

The alan turing institute

Research engineer intern

Sep 2020 – Dec 2020 · 3 mos

Google summer of code

Google summer of code student

May 2020 – Aug 2020 · 3 mos

Developed "Surrogates.jl" a Julia AD-differentiable library that approximates solutions of Differential equations using state of the art optimization methods and novel surrogates.
https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/organizations/6363760870031360/?sp-page=2#6309785596592128

Vodafone

Vodafone IoT Academy

Feb 2020 – Jul 2020 · 5 mos · Torino, Piemonte, Italia

Selected among other 30 students of Politecnico di Torino to work as a team to leverage big data analysis. The aim is to extract knowledge about customers of a car insurance company to score the customers' driving style and to perform clustering analysis.

Clearbox ai solutions

Machine learning engineer intern

Nov 2019 – May 2020 · 6 mos · Torino,

Julia computing

Julia season of contribution student

May 2019 – Sep 2019 · 4 mos · Remote

Developing new optimization package for the programming language Julia.
The main goal is to accelerate optimization via machine learning based surrogate models.
This new tool can be applied to a wide range of computational problems.