Andrea Mocci

Andrea is a Junior Group Leader at CodeLounge, the software engineering R&D group at the Software Institute. His main responsibilities include being the tech lead for CodeLounge team and projects. In the context of the REFLEX project, he has fun with machine learning and natural language processing to support economists and social scientists in their research.
Passionate about programming languages, Andrea has a particular love for functional programming. While he doesn’t publish as often these days, he still enjoys speaking at developer conferences, including Scala Days Seattle (2023) and Voxxed Days Zurich (2024), and Voxxed Days Thessaloniki (2025). In the past, Andrea has been a postdoctoral researcher at MIT and USI Lugano, and his alma mater is Politecnico di Milano, where he’s got a PhD advised by Prof. Carlo Ghezzi.