Laura Sanità is a Full Professor in the Department of Computing Sciences of Bocconi. Before, she was an Associate Professor at TU Eindhoven (Netherlands) and the University of Waterloo (Canada).
She received her PhD in Operations Research in 2009 from the University of Rome Sapienza (Italy), and was subsequently a postdoctoral fellow at EPFL in Lausanne (Switzerland).
She is internationally renowned for her contributions to Combinatorial Optimization and Approximation Algorithms. She is the recepient of a VIDI-award (NWO, Netherlands), Discovery supplement award (NSERC, Canada), Early research award (Ontario), and the best paper award at the Symposium on Theory of Computing (STOC) conference in 2010.
She is an associate editor of the journals "Mathematical Programming", "Mathematics of Operations Research", and "Operations Research Letters", and she has been a program committee member and chair of several top-tier theoretical computer science conferences.
Currently, Laura Sanità is the Director of the Bocconi Master's Program in Artificial Intelligence.
