Simona Ester Rombo

Simona is Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Palermo. Her research interests focus on the design of algorithms for the analysis and knowledge extraction from large amounts of data, in various application contexts. She has served as Principal Investigator for many, also big-size, national and international research projects. She is Associate Editor for Journal of Big Data and serves on several editorial boards, including those of BMC Bioinformatics and Journal of Computational Biology. She is CEO and co-founder of an innovative startup working on Artificial Intelligence for the support to Precision Medicine. Among the other awards, in 2023 she won the ITWIIN “Capacity Building” Prize, granted by the Italian Association of Women Inventors and Innovators “for demonstrating remarkable ability to coordinate a research group and an academic spin-off, capable of achieving significant scientific results and highly useful applications in the current historical and social context.”

At ELICSIR, she is a mentor for the Orthogonal School.