Meet the author

Sylvia Naples is the Technical Lead on Detect, Ocrolus’ fraud detection solution. The team leverages Ocrolus’ expansive collection of financial documents and advanced ML models to offer contextualized file tampering detection. Before focusing on fraud, Sylvia was a Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Ocrolus. She worked on integrating language models like BERT and BERT NER, developed a classification model that works on mixed documents, and significantly improved the accuracy of Ocrolus’ classification and extraction models.

Before Ocrolus, she worked as a Machine Learning Engineer to automate online eye exams. Formerly a mathematician, Sylvia loves finding creative and elegant solutions to challenging problems and passing on that passion to the next generation. She has also worked as a mathematics and programming tutor for over 15 years.