Silvia Quarteroni is the Head of Innovation unit 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 25 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.
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 Universities of York (UK) and Trento (Italy) as well as 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 10 years, Silvia worked with several organizations as a technical lead, project manager and strategic partner in data science.