Role
Full Professor of Computer Science at Sapienza University of Rome and Senior Associate at CNR-ISTC
Bio
Graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1978 from Sapienza University of Rome, she was a visiting scholar at Stanford and an IBM researcher. A full professor of Computer Science at Sapienza University, she chaired the degree program in Computer Science and invented distance learning. She is a Senior Associate at the CNR-ISTC and a pioneer in artificial intelligence , a field she has worked on since 1983.
Her scientific work addresses key topics such as machine learning , natural language processing , and language semantics . Her research ranges from natural language understanding to Large Language Models (LLMs) and the explainability of AI, with important applications to social network analysis and e-health . Author of over 200 publications (h-index 42 and over 8,200 citations), she received the IBM Faculty Award in 2017.
She is strongly committed to promoting women and computer science . She has created national projects to combat the gender gap in STEM (NERD?, G4GRETA, sIAte PROMPTe!, PER-LEI-STEM), and has been recognized by InspiringFifty, awarded the Standout Woman Award at Montecitorio, and included in the 2025 'Women in Science' pavilion of the UNESCO Virtual Museum.