Invited Speakers
Roberta Sinatra is Assistant Professor at IT University of Copenhagen, and holds visiting positions at ISI (Turin, Italy) and Complexity Science Hub (Vienna, Austria). Her research is at the forefront of network science, data science and computational social science. Currently, she spends particular attention on the analysis and modeling of dynamics that lead to the collective phenomenon of success, with focus on science and art, and on data-for-good applications. Roberta completed her undergraduate and graduate studies in Physics at the University of Catania, Italy, and was first a postdoctoral fellow, then a research faculty at the Center for Complex Network Research of Northeastern University (Boston MA, USA). Her research has been published in general audience journals such as Nature and Science, and has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, The Economist, The Guardian, The Washington Post, among other major media outlets.
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Benedetta Cerruti After graduation and PhD in Physics at 'Sapienza, University of Roma' with a thesis on disordered systems, she headed for a research
fellowship in Spain. Back to Italy, she pursued an academic career in biophysics and bioinformatics of cancer. She left public research to join an insurance company pricing team, and next joined the group of Advanced Analytics at Swiss Re in 2018. Current focus of the group is the automotive telematic development, in a market evolving towards self-driving cars. She focuses on algorithm design aimed at users driving style classification, with an eye on reinsurance, the core company business, and she is an active player in the scientific international debate on Covid-19 data interpretation. |
Elisa Omodei is the Predictive Analytics Lead of the Hunger Monitoring Unit at the UN World Food Programme’s Research, Assessment and Monitoring division. She also serves as Vice-President Secretary of the Complex Systems Society. She holds a BSc and a MSc in Physics and a PhD in Applied Mathematics for the Social Sciences. After her PhD, she spent a few years in academia before joining the United Nations in 2017, first at UNICEF's Office of Innovation and now at the World Food Programme.
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Bea Dobrzynska, Senior Manager – CELI
Born in Poland, moved to Italy in 2004. She has a degree in philology. Since the beginning of her career in Italy, she has been involved in the development of voice-based technology. After some years working on differente areas, with the advent of smart speakers she went bacl to CELI to work on language and voice technology. |