Curriculum

Maria Federico currently is professor with a temporary appointment for two courses at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia and one course at the University of Ferrara.

Her main research interests include bioinformatics, multimedia content accessibility, web accessibility, computational linguistics, combinatorial algorithms and machine learning.

She graduated cum laude in Information Technologies at the University of Pisa in 2006 with a thesis titled "Notions of Maximality for Motifs in Biological Sequences".
She received the PhD on March 2011 at the Doctorate School in Multiscale Modelling, Computational Simulations and Characterization in Material and Life Sciences of Modena and Reggio Emilia University.
From January 2007 to December 2007 she was a research fellow at the Institute of Computational Linguistics of the National Research Council (CNR) of Pisa and her main activity was the development of stochastic models based on the method of Maximum Entropy applied to Natural Language Processing.