Barbara Caputo

Barbara Caputo is Full Professor at Politecnico di Torino, where she serves as the Rector's Advisor on Artificial Intelligence. She earned her PhD in computer science from KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and has built an international research career in artificial intelligence, computer vision and robotics.

In 2014, she became the first Italian researcher to receive a European Research Council (ERC) grant in computer vision. She is a co-founder of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) and an ELLIS Fellow.

She contributed to the design of Italy's National PhD Programme in Artificial Intelligence and led its AI and Industry programme. She was also a member of the expert group convened by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development (MISE) to draft Italy's National AI Strategy.

In 2022, she co-founded FocoosAI, a spin-off of Politecnico di Torino. Since April 2025, she has served as Artificial Intelligence Adviser to the Italian Minister of Defence.