Marco Zaffalon

Marco Zaffalon is a University Professor and Scientific Director at IDSIA (USI-SUPSI).

He has 170 refereed publications on artificial intelligence and machine learning, and his research has overall been supported by 17 million francs in competitive grants. Marco is regularly a Senior Program Committee Member for IJCAI, AAAI, and UAI, and is listed as a top 2% scientist according to Stanford’s science-wide author databases of standardised citation indicators since its inception.

At IDSIA Marco founded the group on probabilistic machine learning that has grown up to 40 researchers. In his applied research he has worked with several companies, such as UBS, Novartis, and Mastercard.

In 2020 he has co-founded Artificialy, a Lugano-based company for products and services in AI, where he works as the company’s Chief Scientist.

Artificialy employs 35 people at the moment.