Resume

Bio ( Italian version , shorter bio in my linkedin page )

Marcello Federico currently holds the position of Senior Principal Scientist at EU INTech, the European arm of Amazon Stores' International Technology team. He earned his Laurea degree in Information Sciences with highest honors (summa cum laude) from the University of Milan, Italy, in 1987. Joining Amazon in 2018, he oversees science teams focused on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). Prior to his tenure at Amazon, Marcello served as a researcher at the IRST and FBK research centers in Italy from 1989 to 2017. Additionally, he lectured at the University of Trento, Italy, from 2004 to 2022. Marcello played pivotal roles in various ventures, including as co-founder and scientific advisor of MateCat Srl (2014-2021) and co-founder and former CEO of MMT Srl (2017-2018), which pioneered real-time adaptive neural machine translation technology. He also served as a faculty advisor at Pi School since 2017.

Marcello's research expertise spans machine translation, spoken language translation, language modeling, information retrieval, and speech recognition. He has co-authored 230 scientific publications, contributed to 20 international and national projects as a scientific leader, and co-developed open-source software packages such as Moses for machine translation and IRSTLM for language modeling, widely utilized across research and industry worldwide. Marcello has been actively involved in major international conferences in human language technology, co-founding the International Conference on Spoken Language Translation series in 2004. He has also held editorial roles including editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing, associate editor for Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval and for the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, and senior editor for the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.

Marcello's contributions extend beyond research and academia, as he has served on the board of the Cross Lingual Information Forum and the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT), where he chaired EAMT in 2012. He was a founding officer of the ACL SIG on Machine Translation and currently serves as President of the ACL SIG on Spoken Language Translation. Marcello is recognized as a senior member of both the IEEE and the ACM.

Awards:

2021: Best thesis award by the European Association for Machine Translation - Co-advisor of Mattia Antonino Di Gangi

2017: Best thesis award by the European Association for Machine Translation - Co-advisor of  Josè Camargo de Souza 

2017: Best student paper award at IWSLT, Tokyo, Japan - Co-author and advisor of Surafel M. Lakew 

2015: Best student paper award at ISCA-INTERSPEECH, Stockolm, Sweden-  Co-author and advisor of  Nicholas Ruiz 

2012: META Seal of Recognition   - Main author of IRSTLM open source software 

2011: META Prize  - Co-author of MOSES open source software

2011: Best student paper at IWSLT, San Francisco, USA - Co-author and advisor of Arianna Bisazza and Nicholas Ruiz

Workshop and Conference committees:

2024

• 16th Biennal Conference of the Association for Machine Translation of the Americas (AMTA)-  Program Committee

• 21th  International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (ACL-IWSLT) - Conference co-Chair

• Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) , Area Chair

• IEEE International Conference on Audio Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) - Program Committee

• 25th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) - Program Committee

• 25th INTERSPEECH Conference - Program Committee

• Conference on Language Modeling - Program Committee 

2023

• 24th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT 2023) - Program Committee

• 24th INTERSPEECH Conference - Program Committee

• 20th  International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (ACL-IWSLT) - Conference co-Chair

• Conference on Empirical Methods In Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) - Area Chair for Machine Translation

• IEEE International Conference on Audio Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) - Program Committee

• Machine Translation Summit (MTS 23 ) - Program Committee

2022

• IEEE International Conference on Audio Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) - Program Committee

• 19th  International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (ACL-IWSLT) - Conference co-Chair

2021

• 6th Conference on Machine Translation (WMT21) - Program Committee

• Conference on Empirical Methods In Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) - Area Chair for Machine Translation 

• 18th  International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (ACL-IWSLT) - Conference co-Chair

• 8th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLIC-IT) - Track Chair for Research and Industrial NLP Applications 

• Annual Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL) - Area Chair for Machine Translation

• Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-IJCNLP) - Area Chair for Machine Translation and Multilinguality

• Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) , Program Committee

• IEEE International Conference on Audio Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) - Program Committee

2020

• 5th Conference on Machine Translation (WMT) - Program Committee

• Annual Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the Association of Computational Linguistics (AACL-JCNLP) - Program Committee 

• Conference on Empirical Methods In Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) - Program Committee

• 7th Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLIC-IT) - Track Chair for Machine Translation and Multilinguality

• 1st AMTA Workshop on Post-Editing in Modern-Day Translation (PEMDT) - Workshop Organizer

• Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) - Program Committee

• International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP) - Program Committee

• IEEE International Conference on Audio Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) - Program Committee

• Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) - Area Chair for Machine Translation

• 17th  International Conference on Spoken Language Translation (ACL-IWSLT) - Conference  co-Chair

2019

• IEEE International Conference on Audio Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP) - Program Committee

• Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language - Technologies (NAACL-HLT) - Program Committee

• Multiword Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology Workshop (MUMTTT2019) - Program Committee

• Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) - Program Committee

• 4th Conference on Machine Translation (WMT) - Program Committee 

• Machine Translation Summit  - Program Committee 

• Conference on Empirical Methods In Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) - Area Chair for Machine Translation and Multilinguality

• Amazon Machine learning Conference (AMLC) - Program committee  

• Workshop on Human-Informed Translation and Interpreting technology (HiT-IT) - Program Committee

2018

• International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) - Workshop Chair

• The SIGNLL Conference on Computational Natural Language Learning (CoNLL) - Program Committee

• Conference on Empirical Methods In Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) - Program Committee

• Third Conference on Machine Translation (WMT) - Program Committee

• Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) - Program Committee

• Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language - Technologies (NAACL-HLT) - Program Committee

• AMTA Workshop Translation Quality Estimation and Automatic Post-Editing - Program Committee

• International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP) - Program Committee

2017

• EACL 2017 - Area co-chair 

• Special Issue on Spoken Language Translation  Machine Translation Journal - Guest Editor 

• International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) - Co-organizer

• Interspeech -  Program Committee

• Conference on  Empirical Method  in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) - Program Committee

• Second Conference on Machine Translation (WMT) - Program Committee

• First Workshop on Human-Informed Translation and Interpreting Technology (HiT-IT) - Program Committee

2016

• Workshop on Translation evaluation: from fragmented tools and data sets to an integrated ecosystem - Co-organizer 

• Second Workshop on Natural Language Processing for Translation Memories (NLP4TM) - Co-organizer 

• Special Issue on Natural Language Processing for Translation Memories , Machine Translation Journal - Guest Editor 

• International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) - Tutorial co-chair 

• International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) - Co-organizer

• Interspeech 2016  - Program Committee

• NAACL HLT 2016 - Program Committee

• International Conference on Statistical Language and Speech Processing (SLSP) - Program Committee

• Conferenza Italiana sulla Linguistica Computazionale (CLIC-IT) - Program Committee

2015

• Interspeech 2015 - Area co-chair 

• AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-15) - Senior program committee member 

• International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) - Co-organizer

• Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT) - Program Committee

• Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation (HyTra) - Program Committee

• Workshop on Multi-word Units in Machine Translation and Translation Technology (MUMTTT) - Program Committee

• Second Italian Computational Linguistics Conference (CLiC) - Program Committee

2014

• Special issue on continuous-space and related methods in natural language processing, IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing  - Guest Editor 

• AMTA 2014 Workshop on Adaptive and Interactive Machine Translation - Co-organizer 

• International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) - Co-organizer

• First Italian Computational Linguistics Conference (CLiC) - Area chair 

• Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) - Program Committee

• Workshop on Post-Editing Technology and Practice (WPTP3) - Program Committee

• Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation (WMT) - Program Committee

• International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING) - Program Committee

• Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) - Program Committee

• Workshop on Hybrid Approaches to Translation (HyTra) - Program Committee

2013

• Machine Translation Summit (MTS) - Tutorial chair 

• ACL 2013 Workshop on Discourse in Machine Translation (DiscoMT) - Co-organizer 

• International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) - Co-organizer

• Conference on Empirical Method in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) - Program Committee

• 15 th  Conference of the Spanish Association for  Artificial Intelligence (CAEPIA) - Program Committee

• ACL 2013 Workshop on on Hybrid Approaches to Translation (HyTra) - Program Committee

• 14th Annual Conference of the  International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech) - Program Committee

• Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation - Program Committee

2012

• Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) - Conference chair 

• 50th Annual Conference of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) -Area co-chair 

• International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT) - Co-organizer

• 10 th  Biennial Conference of the Association for Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA) - Program Committee

• AMTA Workshop on Post-Editing Technology and Practice - Program Committee

• Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation - Program Committee

Association and Journal boards:

2021- 2023 : Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research - Association editor

2020- 2025 : ACL's Special Interest Group on Spoken Language Translation - President

2016-            :  Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics  - Advisory Board

2010–2021:  ACL's Special Interest Group on Machine Translation   - Regional officer for Europe 

2013-2017:  IEEE/ACM Transactions for Speech, Audio, and Language Processing  - Senior editor 

2010–2014:  European Association for Machine Translation  - Co-opted board member 

2007-2013:  ACM Transactions for Speech and Language Processing - Co-Editor in chief

2005-           :  International Conference on Spoken Language Translation - Member of the steering committee, co-founder

2005-2007: ACM Transactions for Speech and Language Processing  - Associate editor 

2005-2009: Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval  - Editor  

2002-2005: Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum  (*)  - Member of the steering committee 

(*) formerly known as Cross-Language Evaluation Forum 

Work experience:

2023-             :  Amazon  - Senior Principal Scientist (L8)

2018-2022 :  Amazon Web Services  -  Principal Applied Scientist (L7)

2018-            :  Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento - Visiting Researcher

2017-2018:  MMT Srl, Trento  - Chief Executive Officier 

2002-2022:  ICT Doctoral School, University of Trento - Lecturer 

2002– 2020 :  ICT Doctoral School, University of Trento - Doctoral school committee member

2015-2017:  Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento - HLT-MT research unit - Head of research unit (level F1) 

2008–2014:  Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento - HLT research unit - Head of research unit (level F1) 

2004–2007:  Istituto Trentino di Cultura- IRST, Trento - Hermes unit - Head of research line (level R2) 

1998–2003:   Istituto Trentino di Cultura- IRST, Trento - Multilingual Natural Speech Technology unit - Head of  research line (level R2 since 2001) 

1995–1998:  Istituto Trentino di Cultura- IRST, Trento - Interactive Sensory Systems division - Staff researcher (level R1) 

1991–1994:  Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Trento  Junior researcher (level RE)