Prof. Flora Amato

Flora Amato, Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technologies of the University of Naples Federico II, where she has been carrying out her research and teaching activities since 2006 in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Machine and Deep Learning, Knowledge Management and Big Data Processing.

She teaches Artificial Intelligence for the Degree Course in Computer Engineering, Hardware and Software Architectures for Big Data and Text Mining for the Degree Course in Data Science, at the University of Naples Federico II. Currently Visiting Researcher at VUB in the Digitalisation and Access to Justice (DIKE) Research group. 

She was a visiting researcher at the Dipartimento de Ciències de la Computació of the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain) in 2013 and at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Maryland (Washington DC, USA) in 2015. She was appointed Full Professor s.c. 09/H1 "Information Processing Systems" on 14/4/2021. 

She is a member of the Scientific Committee of the master’s degree Course in Artificial Intelligence and Ethics and of the Board of Lecturers of the PhD Course in Computational and Quantitative Biology at the same University.