Author of more than 300 papers; Coordinated tens of European projects and industrial collaborations; Former coordinator of SoBigData, the European research infrastructure on Big Data Analytics and Social Mining; Recipient of a prestigious ERC Advanced Grant entitled XAI – Science and technology for the explanation of AI decision making.
Research Experience
Visiting Scientist at MCC, Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation, Austin (USA) from 1989-1990; Visiting Scientist at CWI Amsterdam in 1993; Visiting Scientist at UCLA in 1995 and 2006; Visiting scientist at Barabasi Lab (Center for Complex Network Research) of Northeastern University, Boston (USA) from 2009-2010; National Coordinator of the ICT Department of CNR, Area Data Mining and Semantic Web from 2006-2009.
Education
Master Degree in Computer Science at the University of Pisa with 110/100 cum laude in 1982.
Background
Fosca Giannotti is a Full Professor at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy. She is a pioneering scientist in mobility data mining, social network analysis, and privacy-preserving data mining. Her research focus is on social mining from big data: smart cities, human dynamics, social and economic networks, ethics and trust, diffusion of innovations.