Carlo Lipizzi (clipizzi)

Carlo Lipizzi

Teaching Associate Professor and Associate Chair for Corporate and Continuing Studies

Charles V. Schaefer, Jr. School of Engineering and Science

Department 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

AI and Data Science expert with extensive experience in teaching, research, and consulting in Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing (NLP).

Currently serving as a Teaching Associate Professor at Stevens Institute of Technology, NJ, specializing in AI, Machine Learning, and Data Science.

As Principal Investigator, I lead research projects in NLP, Machine Learning, and Data Analytics. I design systems, develop core algorithms, write key components in Python/SQL, and oversee the teams executing these projects..

Additionally, I consult on developing data-driven solutions for decision-making using Data Science, NLP, and Machine Learning—building on methodologies, algorithms, and software I’ve created.

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 and Expert Witness
  • 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.

Associate Department Chair

Department representative at the Institute GCC

Member of the Department 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.

Honors and Awards

I received the Stevens award for teaching excellence in May '24

Professional Societies

  • ASEM – American Society for Engineering Management Member
  • 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 Subtask WRT-1049.11: About $200K. The project will deliver a recommendation system for the DAU - Ended in 2023

Co-PI for Siemens Financial Services project: About $200K. The project will deliver a system to help Siemens select sustainability projects to invest in - Ended in 2023

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

PI for Accenture project: As 10/1 the project has a residual value of about $450K. The project is active and focused on creating a career coach using LLM/ML

PI for a child account of the Trusted Artificial Intelligence (AI) Systems Engineering (SE) Challenge research task order (WRT-1085). I have 2 graduate students on this project. It will end in May '25

Selected Publications

Book Chapter, Book Series

  1. Lipizzi, C. (2024). Societal Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning. Synthesis Lectures on Computer Science (vol. Part F2440, pp. 1-149).

Conference Proceeding

  1. Yuan, S.; Yang, J.; Arya, S.; Lipizzi, C.; Wang, Y. (2023). From ambiguity to explicitness: Nlp-assisted 5g specification abstraction for formal analysis. 2023 IEEE 12th International Conference on Cloud Networking (CloudNet) (pp. 229--237).
  2. 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.
  3. Yuan, S.; Yang, J.; Arya, S.; Lipizzi, C.; Wang, Y. (2023). From Ambiguity to Explicitness: NLP-Assisted 5G Specification Abstraction for Formal Analysis. 2023 IEEE 12th International Conference on Cloud Networking, CloudNet 2023 (pp. 229-237).
  4. 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.
  5. 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/.
  6. 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).
  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. Mondal, D.; Lipizzi, C. (2024). Mitigating Large Language Model Bias: Automated Dataset Augmentation and Prejudice Quantification. Computers (6 ed., vol. 13).
  2. 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.
  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. 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).
  5. 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).
  6. 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.
  7. 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).
  8. 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).
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 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).
  12. 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).
  13. 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).
  14. 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).

posted-content

  1. Tounsi, A.; Temimi, M.; Lipizzi, C.. Exploring Social and Geographical Disparities During Hurricane Ida Using Geolocated Social Media Content. Elsevier BV.
    http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4484915.

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