Alessandro Cheli

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Research and Development Scientist, building the core of Planting Space

I focus on applied category theory, functional programming, symbolics, and the theory and design of programming languages.

I manage two record labels through which I release my music:

Music is Logic is Geometry and Linea Records

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Experience

Present

R&D Scientist

· Remote

Planting Space

Research and development in symbolic AI, applied category theory, compilers and programming languages. Building the core infrastracture, working on interdisciplinary problems since the early stages of the company. Contributing to UI and infrastructure. We’re building an AI system which accurately represents knowledge and uncertainty, to enable the discovery of insights and transparent problem solving.

Oct 2021
Sep 2023

Product Development Consultant

· Bologna, Italy

Plasive Technologies

Provided a complete consultancy from the design to the deployment of a web radio streaming application implemented in Go and Vue.js.

Jun 2023
Sep 2021

Google Summer of Code Intern

· Remote

Julia Symbolics

During GSoC 2021, I was awarded a stipend from Google for an experiment involving the integration of Metatheory.jl , my thesis project, with the high performance Computer Algebra System (CAS) Symbolics.jl developed at MIT. The project focused on automatically applying user-defined high-level compiler optimizations , defined via equational rewrite rules, to preemptively choose the symbolic representation of a system of differential equations that performs best when compiled and solved numerically. The projects are still being maintained and there is still room for exploring and researching the topic.

Jun 2021
Dec 2021

Computer Science Student

· Pisa, Italy

University of Pisa

I completed my undergraduate studies in Computer Science at the University of Pisa. My thesis proposes an advanced, generic and high-level code rewriting and analysis system for the Julia programming language , and was supervised by Professors Gian-Luigi Ferrari , Andrea Corradini and Dr. Christopher Rackauckas

Sep 2018
Feb 2019

Full Stack Development Intern

· Pisa, Italy

3Logic

High school sponsored internship, focused on the development of full stack backoffice applications in Node.js and React.

Sep 2018
Aug 2017

Computer Vision Intern

· Belfast, UK

Knight Systems

Short intership, sponsored by the Erasmus program for high school students. I focused on development of various visual detection systems for embedded computers with OpenCV, and a mobile application in React Native

Jun 2017

Publications

2022

Gowda, Shashi, Yingbo Ma, Alessandro Cheli, Maja Gwóźzdź, Viral B. Shah, Alan Edelman, and Christopher Rackauckas. “ High-performance symbolic-numerics via multiple dispatch ” ACM Communications in Computer Algebra 55, no. 3 (2022): 92-96.

Iravanian, Shahriar, Carl Julius Martensen, Alessandro Cheli, Shashi Gowda, Anand Jain, Yingbo Ma, and Chris Rackauckas. “ Symbolic-Numeric Integration of Univariate Expressions based on Sparse Regression ” ACM Communications in Computer Algebra 56, no. 2 (2022): 84-87.

2021

Cheli, Alessandro. “ Automated Code Optimization with E-Graphs - Bachelor Thesis in Computer Science, University of Pisa” arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.14714 (2021).

Cheli, Alessandro. “ Metatheory.jl: Fast and Elegant Algebraic Computation in Julia with Extensible Equality Saturation ” Journal of Open Source Software 6, no. 59 (2021): 3078.


Music

I release music under “Contraddizione” .

I collaborate with my friend Michele Mucci , professional mastering and sound engineer.

You can listen to our music projects on

Linea Records and Music is Logic is Geometry .

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Published Albums

2023

Contraddizione - Punto Album Cover

Contraddizione - Punto - Spotify

Slow, ethereal soundscapes, hyperactive and deconstructed IDM compositions.

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Live Shows

2023

March 2023 - Eki Magazine Issue Launch 03 - Artiglieria , Firenze

Hybrid live coding session with audio-reactive light installations by Monogrid .

2022

August 2022 - Linea Records Showcase - Bridge48 Studios , Barcelona

Label showcase with a visual and live painting installation “Nucleosynthesis” by Denny Baco .


Contact

You can send me an email at the following address

alessandro -at- cheli.dev

or you can find me on Github @0x0f0f0f .