Cezar Sas

Teaching Assistant

University of Copenhagen

Biography

Teaching Assistant, I graduated in Computer Science from University of Milano-Bicocca. I’m interested in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing. Investigating methods and models for extracting knowledge from semi-structured and unstructured data is the general goal of my research. I also enjoy photography, biking, and practice martial arts.

Interests

Artificial Intelligence
Natural Language Processing
Knowledge Extraction
Information Retrieval

Education

MSc in Computer Science, 2019

University of Milano-Bicocca
BSc in Computer Science, 2016

University of Milano-Bicocca

Experience

Teaching Assistant

University of Copehagen

Feb 2020 – Present Copenhagen, Denmark

TA for two courses (Data Science and Elements of Machine Learning). Main responsibilities include: Responsibilities include:

Hold weekly lectures focused on exercise and aid the students with topic related to questions;
Analyze the difficulty of the assignments before releasing them to the students;
Assist students on the discussion forum;
Correct, grade, and give feedback on the weekly assignments;

Intern

University of Copenhagen

Oct 2018 – Jan 2019 Copenhagen, Denmark

Investigating the problem of relation extraction for low resource languages using transfer learning techniques.

Multi-lingual learning was used to transfer knowledge from high resource languages to low resourced ones;
The problem was framed as question answering (QA) allowing zero-shot learning for predicting unseen relations;
The experiments were performed on a newly created multilingual dataset using Wikidata and Wikipedia

Research Assistant

University of Milano-Bicocca

Feb 2018 – Apr 2018 Milan, Italy

Responsible of the design and development of an application for automatic suggestion of SEO keywords and website classification. Moreover, the creation of a training dataset for a classification model.

Design and implementation the application;
Customization and implementation of keyword extraction algorithms;
Implementation of a scraping tool that exploits search engines for the creation of the dataset.

Research Assistant

Consorzio Milano Ricerche

Jul 2017 – Oct 2017 Milan, Italy

Worked on a project for analyzing the opinion of users from Twitter on the Brexit. My tasks included:

Data engineering and modeling to suit the task;
Collection of tweets from Twitter’s streaming API;
Community detection and opinion mining;
Data visualization for the detected communities.