Valentina Colla graduated and the Engineering Faculty of the University of Pisa in 1994 and got a PhD in Industrial and Information Engineering at Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (SSSA) in Pisa in 1998.
Since 2000 She was researcher at SSSA and She is currently Technical Research Manager and Coordinator of the Research Center “ICT for Complex Industrial Systems and Processes” (ICT-COISP) of the TeCIP Institute of SSSA. She holds more than 20 years of experience in modeling, simulation, monitoring and control of industrial processes, with a particular focus on the steel sector.
She is also an expert in the application of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning techniques for advanced modeling, monitoring and control within the industrial context. She participated as scientific and technical coordinator of the activity developed by SSSA within 59 Projects funded by the EU (13 currently ongoing, 4 as Project Coordinator) and a number of project funded by private industries, mostly on issues related to industrial automation and process monitoring and control. She had several experiences as evaluator of research project proposals submitted in response to EU calls and She is the representative and delegate of SSSA within the SPIRE (Sustainable Process Industry through Resource and Energy Efficiency) Association and the European Steel Technology Platform (ESTEP).
Currently She is lecturer at SSSA for the topic of fundamentals of Neural Networks and other Bio-Inspired approach and UNIPI for the discipline of Structural Materials for Engineering. Valentina Colla is author and co-author of more than 300 papers published in international and national journals, conference proceedings and book chapters. The complete list of Her publications is available at https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Valentina_Colla/ or at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=Gkapa_8AAAAJ&hl=en
