Prof Giulia De Masi

Giulia De Masi is currently Associate Professor at Sorbonne University Abu Dhabi and Principal Investigator at Sorbonne Center for Artificial Intelligence and Ocean Institute in Abu Dhabi. 

She is also affiliated with Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Istituto di BioRobotica (Pisa, Italy), centro di Ricerche Enrico Fermi (Rome, Italy), Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics in Sorbonne (Paris, France). 

After her Ph.D. and PostDoc in Complex Systems, she started working in the R&D field for the Marine Industry in 2008, joining the Department of Advanced Engineering Services and Technology Innovation Projects of Snamprogetti. 

Previously, she worked in several academic institutions in the United Arab Emirates, as a Principal Scientist and Adjunct faculty. 

She has more than 130 publications, 4 patents, and 40 reports for the Industry. She has been WiDS (Women in Data Science) Ambassador for UAE in 2018 and Women Propel for IEEE-OES in 2020. She has been nominated IEEE OES Distinguished Lecturer. 

Her research interests include Collective Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Data Science, mainly with applications to the Ocean environment and multi-robot systems.