Associate Professor at the Faculty of Informatics of the Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) in Lugano, Switzerland. She previously held appointments as Assistant Professor at TU Darmstadt and as Associate Professor TU Dresden, Germany, as well as senior researcher at ETH Zurich, Switzerland. She holds a master’s degree (with honors) in telecommunication engineering from the Sapienza University of Rome and a PhD in Computer Science from ETH Zurich. Silvia’s research focus is on mobile and wearable computing and in particular on the design of novel models and systems for modelling human behaviour and supporting well-being and productivity at work. Silvia is one of the founding Editors and the current Editor-in-Chief of the Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Computing Technologies (PACM IMWUT), the leading journal for research on ubiquitous and wearable computing systems. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the UbiComp conference series and has served on the Technical Program Committees of several leading venues in the fields of mobile computing, ubiquitous and wearable computing, internet of things and cyber-physical systems, including MobiSys, SenSys, IPSN, InfoCom, and more. Silvia is also a member of USI’s University Senate and of USI’s University Council, and an engaged promoter of an inclusive leadership culture within academia and beyond.

Associate Professor in Computer Engineering, doing research since 2004 in the artificial intelligence domain, focusing on perceptual computing and human sensing. Her researches have been devoted to the development of biopsychosocial models aiming at understanding human identities and affective expressions, cognitive and emotional states and, more generally, non-verbal behaviors. She has been author of more than 60 papers on international conferences and journals, and she has been principal investigator or participant of several projects focused on human wellbeing.