Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer Science
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Born in Erice (Trapani)  in 1979, married, two daughters, Professor Anna Monreale graduated with honors in Computer Science in 2007 and obtained her PhD in Computer Science in 2011 at the University of Pisa. From 2011 to 2014 she worked as a research fellow on two European projects, then becoming a fixed-term researcher at the Department of Computer Science. Since 2020 she is an associate professor in Data Mining and Data Science in the same department. Since 2008 she has been a research associate at the Institute of Information Science and Technologies “A. Faedo” of the Italian National Research Council - CNR. In 2022 she was appointed Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University.

Institutional assignments

Professor Monreale is currently vice-coordinator of the National PhD Programme in Artificial Intelligence for Society of the University of Pisa; since 2017 has been responsible for the "Internships and relations with external bodies and companies" Commission of the Master's Degree Programme in Data Science and Business Informatics; since 2017 is a member of the teaching staff of the Inter-University Research Doctorate in Data Science (Scuola Normale Superiore, University of Pisa, Scuola Sant‘Anna, Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca, CNR).

Among her relevant assignments we highlight: Director of the postgraduate programme Big Data Analytics & Social Mining, promoted by the University of Pisa and the CNR, and which involves the Tuscan schools of excellence (IMT Lucca, Sant‘Anna Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) from 2019 to November 2022, and vice director from 2014 to 2018; Deputy Director of the Interdepartmental Center "Diritto e Tecnologie di Frontiera" (2020-2022); Member of the Scientific Commission of the of "Mathematical and computer sciences" Area (2018-2020).

Attività scientifica e didattica

Professor Monreale is responsible for the teaching of Data Mining in the Master's Degree Programme in Computer Science and Data Science Laboratory in the Master's Degree Programme in Data Science & Business Informatics. She also performed the teaching activity of Databases in the Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Humanistic Informatics and of Databases and Business Intelligence in the Master's Degree Programme in Innovation Management, organized by the University of Trento and the Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna of Pisa.

Professor Monreale's studies address the analysis and extraction of knowledge from Big Data through Data Mining, Big Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence algorithms that respect certain ethical-legal principles, such as privacy and transparency. Her main research fields of interest are Data Analytics, Data Mining, Artificial Intelligence, Privacy-by-Design in Big Data Analytics, Explainable Artificial Intelligence. She spent some research periods at the Stevens Institute of Technology (Hoboken, New Jersey, USA) and the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada.

Professor Monreale is a member of the Editorial Board of the "Journal Transactions on Data Privacy" and of the "Journal of Intelligent Information Systems: Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Database Technologies". She joined the research activities of various national and European projects and is principal investigator for the University of Pisa unit both in a national project financed by PNRR funds and a European project.

Her studies have resulted in more than 90 publications in refereed journals and conferences and several chapters in international books. The number of citations received is over 3200 with an H-index of 20 (as of 2022).