Silvia Quarteroni

Silvia Quarteroni is the Chief Transformation Officer and Head of Innovation at the Swiss Data Science Center, a joint venture between EPFL and ETH Zurich whose mission is the enablement of data science and innovation for societal impact.

Silvia heads a team of over 30 scientists collaborating with Swiss companies and organisations to adopt data-driven solutions and integrate data science in their decision-making process.

She is also an Innosuisse Innovation Council member, promoting novelty and value creation in the Swiss economic landscape, and a full member of the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences (SATW).

With a MSc in Computer Science from EPFL and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of York (UK), she has a research background in natural language processing at the University of York (UK), the University of Trento (Italy) and Politecnico Milan (Italy). In her academic career, she has focused on question-answering systems, human-computer dialogue and more generally on machine learning applied to text and audio. During the last 15 years, Silvia worked with several organizations as a technical lead, project manager and strategic partner in data science.