Biography

Antonio Gulli

Principal Development Manager, STC Europe
Microsoft

Antonio is a Principal Development Manager at STC Europe (Search Technology Centre) and works on Bing Search, Microsoft.  He leads the Dev Team in London, working on Advanced Search Projects such as Realtime Web Search, Classification and Clustering.  

Previously to that, Antonio served as CTO, Europe and UK for Ask.com search engine in 2008-2009. He led and co-led many projects and delivered a number of products on-line, including Image search, News search, Fresh related search suggestions, Realtime q&a, Realtime injection and ranking of news, blog and video into Web search, and News video search. 

Before joining Ask.com, Antonio served as CEO of Ideare S.p.a, one of the earliest Web search companies in Europe. Antonio co-founded Ideare and sold the company to Tiscali, a public ISP quoted on the Italian and France stock markets.  Way back in 1998, Antonio co-developed Arianna, the first Italian search engine. He published over 20 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, 1 book about Web information retrieval, and has over 10 US pending patents in Web search, ranking and clustering.

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