Paola Mello (born 1958) is an Italian computer scientist whose research in artificial intelligence concerns topics including process mining, event monitoring, and logic programming, with applications in health, transportation, and business.
She is a professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bologna, and the former president of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence [it].
[1] She was president of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA) from 2010 to 2014.
[1][2] Mello was named to the Academy of Sciences of the Institute of Bologna in 2016.
[1] She is a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence,[3] elected in 2017.