Leonardo Apolonio

Leonardo Apolonio is a highly experienced Staff Machine Learning Engineer currently at Qualtrics, specializing in machine learning solutions for customer experience with a focus on conversational data. Prior roles include Applied Research Engineer at Clarabridge, Course Instructor for a Data Analytics Boot Camp at The George Washington University, and Principal Machine Learning Engineer at Oracle, where contributions involved enhancing the Oracle Data Cloud platform. Leonardo has also served as a Senior Data Scientist at DARPA, developing deep learning techniques for anomaly detection in network data, and as a Senior Data Science Engineer and Agile Development Manager at The Advisory Board Company, building model creation frameworks and data pipelines. A former Senior IT Consultant at IBM Global Services, Leonardo has a robust technical foundation established through early roles, including Computer Vision Researcher at the University of Maryland. Educational credentials include an MS in Computer Science from Georgia Institute of Technology and a B.S. in Computer Engineering from University of Maryland.