Bio: She got her Ph.D. at the University of Rome La Sapienza, in a collaboration with Max Planck Institute in Dresden and City University in London. She was a Post-doctoral Researcher at the Polytechnic University of Marche and Visiting Researcher at Hitachi Research Laboratory, in Nara, Japan. In 2008, she started working in the R&D field for the Marine industry (Snamprogetti Center of Excellence, Italy), joining the Department of Advanced Engineering Services and Technology Innovation Projects. She worked in several academic institutions in UAE, before joining the Technology Innovation Institute in Abu Dhabi as Principal Scientist, leading the Marine Robotics Projects. She is also affiliated with Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, within the College of Engineering. She has 60+ peer-reviewed publications (including journals and conferences) and 40+ reports for Industry. Her main fields of expertise are Collective Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Deep Learning, with applications to underwater multi-robot systems.