[1] Her research interests include explainable artificial intelligence, computational logic, argumentation theory, and applications in public health.
Initially intending to go into mathematics, she switched to computer science in her last year of high school.
[2] She has a laurea (the Italian equivalent of a master's degree) from the University of Pisa, earned in 1990, and completed a doctorate from Imperial College London in 1995.
[3][4] Her dissertation, on abductive logic programming, was supervised by Robert Kowalski.
[5] After working as an intern in Japan and as a postdoctoral researcher in Greece,[2] she returned to Imperial College as a lecturer in 2000.