Aldo is a Professor of ML at UCL and the Founder of Eloquent AI
Biography
Aldo is a Professor (Associate) of Machine Learning at the University College London (UCL), where he is a member of the Natural Language Processing group. He earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science from TU Wien in 2018. His academic journey includes a postdoctoral position at UCL and research visits to institutions such as NIST, NII (Tokyo), Microsoft Research, the University of Glasgow, and the University of Amsterdam. In 2025, he founded Eloquent AI, which develops AI operators for financial services.
Research
Interests
Large Language Models
Understanding and improving reasoning and post-training learning techniques. Current projects include a collaboration with NVIDIA to train LLM for Browser Use.
Conversational Systems for Search & Recommendation
Developing and evaluating conversational systems, with a focus on user modelling and simulation.
Information System Evaluation
Focusing on biases, fairness, and evaluation metrics, with contributions to retrieval models, task-based search and the building of test collections.
Machine Learning
Applications in conversational systems, neural point processes, and deep learning for geospatial and environmental modeling.
Bias and Fairness
Addressing representation bias, pool bias, and fairness in search engines and language models.
Education
Ph.D. Computer Science
MSc Computer Engineering
BSc Computer Engineering
Awards and Honors
Alexa Prize TaskBot Challenge
NVIDIA GPU Grant Program
1st Place Microsoft One Week Hackathon
ACM SIGIRÂ ambassador, 50th ACM Turing Award
1st Place in the Math Wikipedia Task – NTCIR
Professional Appointments
Co-founder
Professor (Associate) of Machine Learning
Senior Machine Learning Researcher
Visiting Researcher
Research Intern
Visiting Researcher
Visiting Researcher
Visiting Researcher
Research Intern
Software Engineer
