Dr Giovanna Maria Dimitri

 Giovanna Maria Dimitri is a tenure track assistant professor at the University of Milan (Statale), Italy and Guest Lecturer in Data Science at the University of Cambridge. Previously she obtained a PhD at the University of Cambridge (UK) from the Department of Computer Science, supervised by Prof. Pietro Liò, with the dissertation: “Multilayer network methodologies for brain data analysis and modeling”. She also graduated in July 2015 with an MPhil in Advanced Computer Science at the University of Cambridge, with distinction. The thesis of her MPhil “Predicting Drugs Side Effects from a Combination of Chemical and Biological profiles” was then released as an R package named DrugClust. She is a life member of Clare Hall College, University of Cambridge. During her staying at the University of Cambridge she was selected for the first fencing team, and she was awarded a Full Blue for Fencing (2015) and later two Half Blues for fencing (2016 and 2019). She also won several scholarships, for academic and sport reasons. 

She has published more than 70 papers in top peer reviewed conferences and journal on development on novel deep learning applications, and she has an extensive experience as associate editor and reviewer for top journals in computer science. She has also organized international conferences (among the last ones WIVACE 2026 at the University of Cambridge in September 2026, and ANNPR 2026 at the University of Milan in October 2026).

She has a vast experience in teaching, having taught courses in deep learning and machine learning, which she currently teaches at the University of Cambridge and the University of Milan.