Alessandra Sala
Alessandra Sala is an Italian computer scientist specializing in distributed algorithms for graph theory, social network analysis, and data privacy. She works for Bell Labs in Ireland, as head of Analytics Research. She is also chief ambassador for Women in AI Ireland, a non-profit organisation working for gender inclusivity in artificial intelligence, and a member of the advisory board of Ireland's National Centre for Applied Data Analytics and Machine Intelligence.
Sala is originally from Amalfi. She earned a laurea in computer science from the University of Salerno in 2004, and completed a doctorate there under the supervision of Alberto Negro and Vittorio Scarano. After postdoctoral research at the University of California, Santa Barbara, she joined Bell Labs in 2012.
