Role
Full Professor of Computer Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome; Director of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) of the National Research Council (CNR).
Bio
After graduating in Electronic Engineering from Sapienza University of Rome in 1987, Tiziana Catarci earned a PhD in Computer Science from the same university. Since November 2000, she has been a Full Professor of Information Processing Systems at the Faculty of Information Engineering, Computer Science, and Statistics at Sapienza University of Rome.
Since May 2025, she has been Director of the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) of the CNR.
She has previously held numerous management positions: from 2009 to October 2014, she was President of the InfoSapienza Center and from 2010 to 2014, Vice Rector for Infrastructure and Technologies. She directed the Interuniversity Center ECONA from 2014 to 2020 and Sapienza Design Research from 2015 to 2018. From 2018 to 2024, she also directed the Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering at Sapienza.
Her research focuses on computer engineering, human-computer interaction, databases, user interfaces, usability, information visualization, data management, and data quality. She has contributed to the development of interfaces for retrieving, integrating, and manipulating multimedia data and heterogeneous information sources, making them accessible even to users without specialized technical skills.
In recent years, she has also been involved in artificial intelligence and ethics. She is the founder of SIpEIA, the Italian Society for the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, of which she has been president since 2024. She has published over 200 articles and more than 20 books, has received the IBM Eclipse Innovation Award, the honor of Commander of the Italian Republic, and the international Le Tecnovisionarie award; she is also active in promoting STEM disciplines among female students.