Alina Sîrbu is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the university of Pisa and a member of the KDD LAB. She holds a PhD in Computer Science (2011) from Dublin City University in Ireland. After her PhD she was a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Scientific Interchange in Turin, Italy, and at the University of Bologna, Italy. In 2014 she was Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science at New York University Shanghai, and in 2017 Visiting Assistant Professor of Computer Science at New York University Abu Dhabi. He research is in complex systems modelling, machine learning and data science with applications in a wide variety of fields: social systems to study migration, opinion dynamics, sentiment, voting systems, biological systems to analyse gene regulatory networks and disease pathways, technical systems to predict failures.
