Francesca Lazzeri, Ph.D., is an experienced scientist and machine learning practitioner with over 12 years of academic and industry experience. She is the author of several publications, including technology journals, conferences, and books. She currently leads an international team of cloud advocates and developers at Microsoft, managing an extensive portfolio of customers in the academic/education sector, and building intelligent automated solutions on the Cloud.

Before joining Microsoft, she was a research fellow at Harvard University in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. She is also an advisory board member of the Global Women in Data Science (WiDS) initiative, a machine learning mentor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Columbia University, and an active member of the AI community.