Joao Pita Costa
AI Lab, Institute Jozef Stefan
João Pita Costa is a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Ljubljana. He works at the AI Lab of the Institute Jozef Stefan, coordinating the development of the NAIADES Water Observatory. He extends this collaboration as senior researcher in the spin-off Quintelligence, where he took a key role in the MIDAS project using Big Data to support policy-making in public health, and in UNESCO International Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (IRCAI) where he is designing SDG observatories including the focus on health and well-being. He is also a lecturer on AI-related topics at the Barcelona Business School, ENEB. He also collaborates with XLAB as innovation manager, and was head of marketing at the bioinformatics SME Genialis.