Francesco Paolo Gentile is the Tech Lead for the Generative AI business unit at Oròbix,  focussing on developing cutting-edge AI solutions. He is based in Bergamo, Italy. Previously, he was a data scientist at Lumoa, a text analytics SaaS company based in Helsinki. From 2020 to 2021, Francesco was an NLP Engineer at Invitalia, the Italian national agency for inward investment and economic development.

He completed his doctoral studies in Linguistics at McGill University, Montreal, graduating in early 2020. His theoretical research there was on Natural Language Semantics, particularly the study of adjectives and questions. He also holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Nottingham, working on metaphors from a semantic and cognitive perspective.