Vitor Carvalho

Vitor Carvalho is a Principal Applied Science Manager at Microsoft, based in the San Diego Metropolitan Area. He has been in this role since August 2021, managing teams focused on various advanced topics in artificial intelligence, including Responsible AI, Large Language Models (LLMs), model optimizations (such as fine-tuning and distillation), and multimodal AI applications.1

Professional Background

• Previous Roles:
  • Principal Data Scientist / Group Manager at Intuit (January 2018 - February 2021): Led AI and machine learning initiatives, focusing on personalization and NLP technologies for financial products.
  • Lead Research Scientist / Manager at Snap Inc. (June 2015 - November 2017): Managed teams working on machine learning and NLP technologies for Snapchat, overseeing projects related to semantic search and chatbot development.
  • Principal Scientist and Data Engineering Manager at Intelius (2010 - 2012): Worked on feature architecture and data mining for large-scale systems.
  • Senior Scientist at Microsoft (2008 - 2010): Developed sampling methods for classifier evaluation and improved web search quality metrics.1

Education

Vitor Carvalho completed his PhD at Carnegie Mellon University, where he focused on information extraction and machine learning applications in ranking systems. His academic work includes several publications in prominent conferences such as ACL and SIGIR.1

Contributions to Research

He has authored multiple papers, contributing to the fields of adversarial learning, multimodal named entity recognition, and conversational models, showcasing his expertise in both theoretical and applied aspects of AI.1