Carlo Lipizzi (clipizzi)

Carlo Lipizzi

Teaching Associate Professor & Program Lead

School of Systems and Enterprises

Babbio Center 507
(201) 216-5541

Education

  • PhD (2015) Stevens Institute of Technology (Systems Engineering)
  • Other (1996) IMD (Executive MBA)
  • MS (1981) Universita' degli studi La Sapienza Roma - Italy (Mathematics)

Research

My research activities are centered on applied Natural Language Processing using AI & Machine Learning.

I also developed projects based on broader Data Science, with same goal of extracting and evaluate decision elements.

General Information

Data Science professional teaching, researching and consulting on AI, Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing.

Associate Teaching Professor at the Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ, teaching and researching on Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Data Science, using Python and SQL.

Principal Investigator for research projects leveraging on Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning and Data Analytics.
As PI, I manage projects, design systems, develop required algorithms and write the key components, using Python and SQL.

Delivering consulting on Data Science, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. Primary goal of my consulting activities is to bring back to the students real worls experiences.

Experience

Worked for 25+ years in Industry as executive, consultant and entrepreneur.

Current focus on AI, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, C4ISR, Predictive Analytics, Decision Support Systems, Business Intelligence.

Institutional Service

  • Research Enterprise and Technology Commercialization Committee ("RETCOM") Member
  • Academic Teaching & Mentoring (ATEAM) Program Member
  • Faculty & admin hiring Committee Member
  • Communication Member
  • L3Harris Chair
  • Corporate Relations Committee Member
  • Graduate Curriculum Committee (GCC) Member
  • Program Director Chair
  • Program Director Chair
  • EM/ISE Academic Committee Member
  • Dean for the College of Professional Studies Search Committee Member
  • Center for Complex Systems and Enterprises Chair
  • Registrar Search Committee Member
  • Associate Provost Search Committee Member
  • Faculty & admin hiring Member
  • Corporate Education Member
  • Course Scheduling Chair
  • Communication Member
  • Center for Complex Systems and Enterprises Chair
  • Corporate Education Chair
  • Course Scheduling Chair
  • Program Director Chair
  • Program Director Chair
  • Communication Chair
  • Student Success Chair
  • Provost Search Committee Member
  • Intelliboard/Canvas metrics Member
  • WorkDay development group Member

Professional Service

  • Consulting on Natural Language Processing

Consulting Service

Worked in major consulting firms and my own for most of my career.

My consulting is now focused on Data Science, AI & Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing.

Appointments

Director for the Center of Complex Systems and Enterprises.

Director for Engineering Management and Systems Analytics Graduate Programs.

Supporting scheduling and communication for SSE

Member of SSE and Institute GCC

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

As entrepreneur I launched 4 startups, primarily in consulting for product innovation.

Within a European IT conglomerate, I opened and closed companies and subsidiaries in EU, Brazil and US.

Professional Societies

  • SIAM – Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Member
  • NYAC – New York Academy of Science Member
  • IEEE Member
  • NYAC – New York Academy of Science Member
  • IEEE Member

Grants, Contracts and Funds

PI for WRT-1010: ~$4 million over 2 years (2018-2020) for DoD/Picatinny Arsenal.
The project leveraged on Natural Language Processing to develop 2 systems: a Risk evaluation interactive panel and a Technology monitoring system, both based on metrics extracted from vectorized text. The team was composed by about 25 great people.

PI for WRT-1023: ~$500k in 2020 for the Defense Acquisition University. The project - based on Natural Language Processing - was focused on creating a prototype system to classify purchase requests by contract type, using a computational version of the knowledge base of a contracting officer we created.

Co-PI for WRT-1018: ~$750k in 2020-'21 for the Defense Acquisition University. The project was focused on defining educational macro credentials in key areas. My responsibility is on Data Analytics and included 3 seminars for DAU audience.

PI for Accenture project: As 10/1 the project has a residual value of about $450K. The project has both a research and education component.

PI for Subtask WRT-1049.11: About $200K. The project will deliver a recommendation system for the DAU - Extended to mid of '23

Co-PI for Siemens Financial Services project: About $200K. The project will deliver a system to help Siemens select sustainability projects to invest in - Active

Co-PI for WRT1073: About $334K. Started in Sep. '22, ending in Sep. '23 for the Defense Acquisition University. The project is focused on defining educational credentials in AI and Data Analytics

Selected Publications

Book

    Conference Proceeding

    1. Yassine, A. N.; Lipizzi, C. N.. Measuring Patent Novelty using Natural Language Processing. 24th International Conference on Engineering Design - ICED23, July 24-28, 2022, Bordeaux, France.
    2. Lipizzi, C.. GREEN-CONNECT: an AI-enhanced digital platform to identify and match sustainability projects to funding sources.
      https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ssCpy9g8weDVHFcIWbx1TrAOQEQgRc7S/view.
    3. Babvey, P.; Borrelli, D.; Zhao, Y.; Lipizzi, C. (2020). Masking the labels lubricates models for sequence labeling. No. Proceedings of the Fourteenth Workshop on Semantic Evaluation. Barcelona (online): International Committee for Computational Linguistics.
      https://aclanthology.org/2020.semeval-1.88/.
    4. Borrelli, D.; Saremi, R.; Vallabhaneni, S.; Pugliese, A.; Shankar, R.; Martinez-Mejorado, D.; Iandoli, L.; Ramirez-Marquez, J.; Lipizzi, C. (2020). WINS: Web Interface for Network Science via Natural Language Distributed Representations. Communications in Computer and Information Science (vol. 1224 CCIS, pp. 614-621).
    5. Borrelli, D.; Saremi, R.; Vallabhaneni, S.; Pugliese, A.; Shankar, R.; Martinez-Mejorado, D.; Iandoli, L.; Ramirez-Marquez, J.; Lipizzi, C. (2020). WINS: Web Interface for Network Science via Natural Language Distributed Representations. Communications in Computer and Information Science (vol. 1224 CCIS, pp. 614-621).
    6. Babvey, P.; Lipizzi, C.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2019). Dissecting twitter discussion threads with topic-aware network visualization. Proceedings - 6th Annual Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2019 (pp. 1359-1364).
    7. Babvey, P.; Lipizzi, C.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2019). Dissecting twitter discussion threads with topic-aware network visualization. Proceedings - 6th Annual Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence, CSCI 2019 (pp. 1359-1364).
    8. Desai, P.; Saremi, R.; Hoffenson, S.; Lipizzi, C. (2019). Agile and Affordable: A Survey of Supply Chain Management Methods in Long Lifecycle Products. Proceedings of the IEEE International Systems Conference.
    9. Primario, S.; Borrelli, D.; Zollo, G.; Iandoli, L.; Lipizzi, C. (2017). Measuring polarization in Twitter enabled in online political conversation: The case of 2016 US Presidential election. Proceedings - 2017 IEEE International Conference on Information Reuse and Integration, IRI 2017 (vol. 2017-January, pp. 607-613).
    10. Lipizzi, C.; Dessavre, D. G.; Iandoli, L.; Marquez, J. E. (2016). Social media conversation monitoring: Visualize information contents of twitter messages using conversational metrics. Procedia Computer Science (vol. 80, pp. 2216-2220).

    Journal Article

    1. Behrooz, H.; Lipizzi, C.; Korfiatis, G.; Ilbeigi, M.; Powell, M. (2023). Towards Automating the Identification of Sustainable Projects Seeking Financial Support: An AI-Powered Approach. MDPI Sustainability. MDPI.
    2. Borrelli, D.; Iandoli, L.; Ramirez-Marquez, J.; Lipizzi, C. (2022). A Quantitative and Content-Based Approach for Evaluating the Impact of Counter Narratives on Affective Polarization in Online Discussions. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (3 ed., vol. 9, pp. 914-925).
    3. Borrelli, D.; Iandoli, L.; Ramirez-Marquez, J.; Lipizzi, C. (2022). A Quantitative and Content-Based Approach for Evaluating the Impact of Counter Narratives on Affective Polarization in Online Discussions. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (3 ed., vol. 9, pp. 914-925).
    4. Babvey, P.; Gongora-Svartzman, G.; Lipizzi, C.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2021). Content-based user classifier to uncover information exchange in disaster-motivated networks. PLoS ONE (11 November ed., vol. 16).
    5. Lucic, M.; Ghazzai, H.; Lipizzi, C.; Massoud, Y. (2021). Integrating County-Level Socioeconomic Data for COVID-19 Forecasting in the United States. No. IEEE Open Journal of Engineering in Medicine and Biology (NA ed., vol. 2, pp. 235-248). IEEE.
      https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9479783.
    6. Babvey, P.; Capela, F.; Cappa, C.; Lipizzi, C.; Petrowski, N.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2021). Using social media data for assessing children's exposure to violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. Child Abuse and Neglect (vol. 116).
    7. Babvey, P.; Borrelli, D.; Lipizzi, C.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2021). Content-Aware Galaxies: Digital Fingerprints of Discussions on Social Media. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems (2 ed., vol. 8, pp. 294-307).
    8. Borrelli, D.; Iandoli, L.; Ramirez-Marquez, J.; Lipizzi, C. (2021). A Quantitative and Content-Based Approach for Evaluating the Impact of Counter Narratives on Affective Polarization in Online Discussions. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems.
    9. Borrelli, D.; Gongora, G.; Lipizzi, C. (2020). Unsupervised acquisition of idiomatic units of symbolic natural language: An n-gram frequency-based approach for the chunking of news articles and tweets. Dario Borrelli. San Francisco, CA: PLOS ONE.
      https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0234214.
    10. Borrelli, D.; Svartzman, G. G.; Lipizzi, C. (2020). Unsupervised acquisition of idiomatic units of symbolic natural language: An n-gram frequency-based approach for the chunking of news articles and tweets. PLoS ONE (6 ed., vol. 15).
    11. Babvey, P.; Borrelli, D.; Lipizzi, C.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2020). Content-Aware Galaxies: Digital Fingerprints of Discussions on Social Media. IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems.
    12. Babvey, P.; Capela, F.; Cappa, C.; Lipizzi, C.; Petrowski, N.; Ramirez-Marquez, J. (2020). Using social media data for assessing children's exposure to violence during the COVID-19 pandemic. Child Abuse and Neglect.
    13. Garcia-Mancilla, J.; Ramirez-Marquez, J.; Lipizzi, C.; Vesonder, G.; Gonzalez, V. M. (2019). Characterizing negative sentiments in at-risk populations via crowd computing: a computational social science approach. International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (3 ed., vol. 7, pp. 165-177).
    14. Lipizzi, C.; Dessavre, D. G.; Iandoli, L.; Ramirez Marquez, J. E. (2016). Towards computational discourse analysis: A methodology for mining Twitter backchanneling conversations. Computers in Human Behavior (vol. 64, pp. 782-792).
    15. Lipizzi, C.; Iandoli, L.; Marquez, J. E. (2016). Combining structure, content and meaning in online social networks: The analysis of public's early reaction in social media to newly launched movies. Technological Forecasting and Social Change (vol. 109, pp. 35-49).
    16. Lipizzi, C.; Iandoli, L.; Ramirez Marquez, J. E. (2015). Extracting and evaluating conversational patterns in social media: A socio-semantic analysis of customers' reactions to the launch of new products using Twitter streams. International Journal of Information Management (4 ed., vol. 35, pp. 490-503).

    Courses

    I'm teaching AI&ML, Data Science Courses at the School of Systems and Enterprises.

    In particular, I created and taught EM 224 - Informatics & Software Development; EM 623 - Data Science; EM 624 - Data Exploration; EM 626 - AI and Machine Learning for Systems; EM 627 - Natural Language Processing for Socio-Technical Systems; EM 800 ("Noodle" version) - Special Projects in Engineering Management; ISE 225 - Data Engineering. I also co-developed EM 570 - Data Storytelling and the Graduate certificate in Computational Social Science