I am a Senior Backend Engineer @ Duckduckgo.
I previously worked as:My areas of interest comprise (Distributed) Information Retrieval, Web Search, Web Mining, Big Data, Machine Learning and NLP.
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Load-Sensitive Selective Pruning for Distributed Search
Broccolo, D., Macdonald, C., Orlando, S., Ounis, I., Perego, R., Silvestri, F., & Tonellotto, N.
CIKM 2013.
Query Processing in Highly-Loaded Search Engines
Broccolo, D., Macdonald, C., Orlando, S., Ounis, I., Perego, R., Silvestri, F., & Tonellotto, N.
(pp. 49-55). Springer International Publishing. SPIRE 2013.
Generating suggestions for queries in the long tail with an inverted index
Broccolo, D., Marcon, L., Nardini, F. M., Perego, R., & Silvestri, F.
Information Processing & Management. IPM 2011.
Incremental algorithms for effective and efficient query recommendation
Broccolo, D., Frieder, O., Nardini, F., Perego, R., & Silvestri, F.
String Processing and Information Retrieval 13-24. SPIRE 2010.
Refreshing Models to Provide Timely Query Recommendations
Broccolo, D., Nardini, F. M., Perego, R., & Silvestri, F.
IIR 2010.
Query Log Based Techniques to Improve the Performance of a Web Search Engine
Broccolo, Daniele.
Ph.D. Thesis 2013.
[IT] Studio e Comparazione di Algoritmi per Query Recommendation in Motori di Ricerca Web
Broccolo, Daniele.
Master Thesis 2009.
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[May 2019 - Now] - Senior Backend Engineer
@ DuckDuckGo - Remote
[Jan 2017 - Apr 2019] - Software and Data Engineer
@ Cliqz GmbH - Munich
[Dec 2013 - Dec 2016] - Senior Software Developer
@ Tiscali S.P.A. - Pisa
[Sep 2009 - Dec 2013] - Research Fellow
@ Italian National Research Council (CNR) of Pisa, Italy.
[Jan 2010 - Dec 2013] - Ph.D. Student
@ Department of Computer Science - Ca’ Foscari University of Venice.
[Sep 2012 - Dec 2012] - Research Intern
@ School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow.
[March 2014] Doctor of Philosophy degree (Ph.D.) in computer science
Thesis title: Query Log Based Techniques to Improve the Performance of a Web Search Engine.
@ Department of Computer Science, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
[June 2009] Master's Degree in Computer Science.
Thesis title: Evaluation and Comparison of Query Recommender Algorithms for Web Search Engines.
Final Mark: 110/110 cum laude. Average Mark 28.9 out of 30. GPA: 3.8
@ Department of Computer Science, University of Pisa, Italy.