Barbara Caputo is Full Professor at Politecnico of Torino, where she leads the VANDAL Laboratory, acts as Rector’s Advisor on Artificial Intelligence and directs the Hub AI@PoliTo, the Interdepartmental Laboratory of Excellence on AI, Learning and Intelligent Systems. Since 2017 she has a double affiliation with the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT).
Since 2017 she has been regularly contributing to National AI policy documents: she is one of the 30 experts of the AgID task force on Artificial Intelligence, and one of the 30 MISE experts who wrote the Italian Strategy on AI. Since 2018 she has been part of the steering committee that has been designing and implementing the Italian National PhD on Artificial Intelligence, acting as coordinator of the vertical dedicated to AI & Industry 4.0, promoted by MUR and CNR.