Giuseppe "Pino" Di Fabbrizio is a principal research scientist and a group leader in the Rakuten machine learning and natural language processing research team in Boston. Before joining Rakuten, he was a senior research scientist with the Amazon Alexa team in Cambridge, MA. Prior to Amazon, he was a lead research scientist at AT&T Labs - Research. His research interests include information extraction, information retrieval, natural language understanding, natural language generation, opinion mining, sentiment analysis, conversational agents, text summarization, multimodal and speech system architectures. He was one of the early team members on the Amazon Echo device project and a main contributor for natural language understanding modeling, new domains expansion, and context dialog modeling. He published more than 70 papers and was awarded 27 patents. As a senior IEEE member, he regularly contributes to international scientific committees and editorial boards.