Digital Festival 2017 / Sara Colantonio

Sara Colantonio is currently a Researcher at the Institute of Information Science and Technology “A. Faedo” of the Italian National Research Council (ISTI-CNR) in Pisa, as a member of the “Signals and Images” Lab. Her academic career started with a M.Sc. degree (Hons.) in Computer Science and a Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering, both from the University of Pisa. In 2008 and 2009, she received a grant funded by FINMECCANICA for investigation in the field of diagnostic imaging. Her research interests also include machine learning, image understanding, decision support theory, and personal informatics. She has co-authored over 70 scientific papers, and worked in several national and international projects. She conceived and coordinated the EU FP7 Project SEMEOTICONS, whose main outcome is a smart mirror, called Wize Mirror, for self-monitoring individuals’ risk of cardio-metabolic diseases.