Piero Molino, PhD is CEO and co-founder of Studio Atelico, a company building generative AI video games and technology that runs on device. He was also the Chief Scientist and co-founder of Predibase (acquired by Rubrik), a company that specializes in LLM/SLM fine-tuning and serving. He previously worked as a research scientist exploring machine learning and natural language processing at Yahoo!, IBM Watson, Geometric Intelligence (acquired by Uber), Uber (where he was a founding member of the Uber AI organization), and Stanford University. At Uber he worked on research topics including Dialogue Systems, Language Generation, Graph Representation Learning, Computer Vision, Reinforcement Learning and Meta Learning. He also worked on several deployed systems like COTA, an ML and NLP model for Customer Support, Dialogue Systems for driver hands free dispatch, on the Uber Eats Recommender System with graph learning, and on collusion detection. He is the author of Ludwig, a Linux-Foundation-backed open source declarative deep learning framework with more than 12k stars on GitHub. His favorite game is UFO: Enemy Unknown.