Silvia Quarteroni

Chief Transformation Officer & Head of Innovation

Innovation

Leadership & Administration

(Alumni)

Silvia holds an MSc in Computer Science from EPFL and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of York, UK. She has been a senior research fellow at the University of Trento and later at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. Here, she had the chance to work on Marie Curie and ERC projects relating to natural language processing. From 2012 to 2019, she was a Senior Manager and NLP expert at ELCA Informatique Switzerland, whose AI department she helped create and expand. Silvia joined the Swiss Data Science Center in 2019 and is currently its Chief Transformation Officer, in charge of the team leading organizations to digital transformation.

Projects

SFOE Energy Dashboard

Completed

Modelling the end-user Swiss electricity consumption

Public sector

ICRC: Patterns of violence

Completed

Monitoring patterns of violence with data science

NGO/IO

Publications

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Mari, A.; Remlinger, C.; Castello, R.; Obozinski, G.; Quarteroni, S.; Heymann, F.; Galus, M. "Real-time estimates of Swiss electricity savings using streamed smart meter data" Applied Energy 377 124537 2025 View publication 

Mentioned in

April 30, 2026

Science des données : le SDSC et le Canton de Vaud soutiennent quatre projets appliqués

Le SDSC et le Canton de Vaud ont retenu quatre projets parmi les 57 soumissions reçues lors de leur deuxième appel à projets.

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February 20, 2026

SECO SME Portal | Interview with Dr. Silvia Quarteroni

"The biggest mistake is assuming your company has nothing to do with AI."

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March 3, 2025

Dr. Silvia Quarteroni appointed full member of Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences SATW

Dr. Silvia Quarteroni appointed among 19 new full members of SATW.

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July 23, 2023

Generative AI: Opportunities and Risks

With applications such as ChatGPT gaining traction, many questions are arising about Generative AI, the technology behind those tools, sometimes described as disruptive. How does it work, how can it support organizations today and what are the risks and opportunities associated with its use?

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February 4, 2023

RTS | How to cohabit with ChatGPT? [In French]

What can ChatGPT do for us on a daily basis? "To summarize information automatically, to generate texts, email drafts, to produce computer code.

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January 6, 2023

Tribune de Genève | Will students have their homework written by a robot? [In French]

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April 9, 2019

The "Deep Dive" of natural language processing | Part 2

Deep learning – the area of machine learning generating its models from deep neural networks – has revolutionized the way we think of machine learning problems.While its disruptive force initially hit the field of computer vision with the massive adoption.

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March 29, 2019

The "Deep Dive" of natural language processing | Part 1

Natural language processing, i.e. the automated processing of human language with computers, is certainly not a new discipline. Some date it back to 1950, with Alan Turing’s famous test which a machine would pass by holding a convincingly “human” conversation.

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