April 22, 2026
From research to business: Marcello Federico’s journey between leadership and innovation
A pioneer in speech recognition and a leading figure in the global machine translation landscape, after a long career at FBK (1990–2017), he is now a Senior Principal Scientist at Amazon, where he has led scientific teams in both AWS AI Labs and the European technology hub of Amazon Stores. We met with him to hear lessons learned over the course of his long experience at the forefront of scientific innovation.