Giovanna Maria Dimitri

Brief Bio Sketch

 Giovanna Maria Dimitri is a researcher in Artificial Intelligence at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione e Scienze Matematiche (DIISM), University of Siena, Italy, working in the Artificial Intelligence Group.

Previously she obtained a PhD at the University of Cambridge (UK), supervised by Prof. Pietro Liò, with the dissertation: “Multilayer network methodologies for brain data analysis and modeling”. She graduated in July 2015 with an MPhil in Advanced Computer Science at the University of Cambridge, with distinction. She is a life member of Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge. Previously she received her master’s and bachelor’s thesis (both 110/110 cum laude) in Computer and Automation Engineering at the University of Siena (Italy), supervised by Prof. Michelangelo Diligenti. 

She is lecturing the Business Intelligence course for the master in Engineering Management (DIISM, University of Siena) since A.Y. 2019/2020 and she is Guest Lecturer of Data Science for the Institute of Continuing Education, University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK). 

She has a research publication record of almost 60 papers published in top peer reviewed and international journals, as well as an extensive experience in teaching and supervising. 

In 2023 she won the competitive Ai-Net Fellows Scholarship sponsored by DAAD, and she therefore was selected and visited the lab of Prof. Gemma Roig in December 2023. Since then started the collaboration with Prof. Gemma Roig group (https://www.daad.de/en/the-daad/postdocnet/fellows/fellows/#Dimitri). 

She has been interviewed by several journals and tv shows in Italy for her expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, and she has an extensive experience in terms of science communication events. 

She is an extensive experience and she is associate editor for Neurocomputing journal (Elsevier) and she has been elected Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Society and Technology since May 2024. 

Her research interests concern artificial intelligence, in a wide spectrum of applications, as well as in the development of foundational models.