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Andrea Ponti

I am a Data Scientist with a Master's degree in Computer Science. I combine academic rigour with hands-on industrial experience, using cutting-edge technologies at the intersection of research and practice.

My research focuses on the optimisation of black-box functions using advanced Bayesian methods. From an industrial perspective, I specialise in the development of versatile machine learning solutions, with a focus on foundation models and Large Language Models (LLMs, aka what's behind ChatGPT).

I am fluent in Italian and English and can converse with AI models.


Company/Organisation

OneOffTech

LinkedIn

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-ponti-7a6106177/


Session

06-17
09:30
20min
Contexts & Machines: How Document Parsing Shapes RAG results
Alessio Vertemati, Andrea Ponti

How different document parsing and chunking strategies impact RAG pipeline performance? Using real-life documents and LLM-generated question/answer pairs, we assess multiple methods – both open-source and commercial – showing that parsing quality significantly affects response accuracy and that the best approach may depends on the question type.

Maschinenhaus