NATIONAL PHD IN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

email: chiara.cammarota@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649914341
building: Edificio Marconi
room: 115

Chiara Cammarota was born in Rome on the 29th of July 1983.
She completed her studies at La Sapienza, University of Rome, in the following steps
09/2001-11/2004 BSc in Physics cum laude
11/2004-10/2006 Master in Theoretical Physics cum laude
11/2006-10/2009 Ph.D. Student, Physics Department
02/2009-03/2009 Visitor at INIFTA, La Plata, Argentina
02/2010 PhD Thesis discussion, Physics

She continued her research activity as detailed below
11/2009-11/2010 Post-Doc at the Institut de Physique Théorique (IPhT) - CEA - Saclay
11/2010-12/2011 Post-Doc CNRS at Institut de Physique Théorique (IPhT) - CEA - Saclay
12/2011-03/2013 Post-Doc ERC NPRG-Glass project at LPTMC Jussieu - Paris VI
04/2013-09/2015 Research Fellow at “La Sapienza”, University of Rome (Physics Department) - Italy

Her subsequent academic appointments have been
09/2015-08/2019 Lecturer at King’s College London (Mathematics Department) - UK
09/2019-08/2020 Senior Lecturer at King’s College London (Mathematics Department) - UK
09/2020-present Associate Professor at “La Sapienza”, University of Rome (Physics Department) - Italy

All along her career, she gained the following teaching experience (acronyms used: UG Undergraduate, PG Postgraduate, TA Teaching Assistant, KCL King’s College London, IPhT Institut de physique théorique, CEA Commissariat à l'énergie atomique):
2007-2008 TA to UG Computational Physics Laboratory (30 hours), at La Sapienza (Physics)
2008-2009 TA to UG Computational Physics Laboratory (30 hours), at La Sapienza (Physics)
2012 Masterclass Random Pinning Glass Transitions (6 hours) at IPhT, CEA Saclay
2013-2014 Lecturer of UG course Computational Physics Laboratory (30 hours), at La Sapienza (Physics)
2014-2015 Lecturer of UG course Computational Physics Laboratory (30 hours), at La Sapienza (Physics)
2015-2016 Lecturer of UG/PG course Mathematical Biology (35 hours) and PG course Advanced Topics: Aging Dynamics (6 hours) at KCL (Mathematics)
2016-2017 Lecturer of UG/PG course Mathematical Biology (35 hours), PG course Advanced Topics: Aging Dynamics (6 hours) and Masterclass Glassy dynamics, a thermodynamic description (6 hours) at KCL (Mathematics)
2017-2018 Lecturer of UG/PG course Mathematical Biology (35 hours) and PG course Advanced Topics: Aging Dynamics (6 hours) at KCL (Mathematics)
2018-2019 Lecturer of UG course Intermediate Dynamics (35 hours) and PG course Advanced Topics: Aging Dynamics (6 hours) at KCL (Mathematics)
2019-2020 Lecturer of UG/PG course Mathematical Biology (35 hours) and PG course Research Methods and Advanced Topics in Complex Systems (12 hours) at KCL (Mathematics)
2020-2021 TA to UG Computational Physics Laboratory (60 hours) at La Sapienza (Physics) and Lecturer of UG course Physics 1 (90 hours) at La Sapienza (Chemistry)
She also supervised 2 PhD students as first supervisor, 1 PhD student as second supervisor and ~12 master projects within the M.Sc. Complex Systems Modelling at King’s College London. She just undertook the supervision of one master project within the M.Sc. in Physics at La Sapienza.

She took part to the administration of her institutions of affiliation in the following ways: 2013-2015 Organiser of the Statistical Mechanics Seminars (SMS) and Group Discussions (NOAU) Member of “Consiglio di Dipartimento”, “Consiglio Didattico”, and “Consiglio di Facoltà”, at La Sapienza
2015-2020 PhD Admission Tutor of Disordered Systems Group, Dept. of Mathematics KCL
2016-2017 Member of the Athena SWAN Self Assessment Team, Dept. of Mathematics KCL
2016-2018 Deputy Exam Board Chair of the MSc Complex Systems Modelling, KCL
2017-2020 Member of the Equality and Diversity Committee, Dept. of Mathematics KCL
2019-2020 Exam Board Chair of the MSc Complex Systems Modelling, KCL
2020-present Member of “Consiglio di Dipartimento”, “Consiglio Didattico”, “Consiglio. di Facoltà”, Member of the committee responsible of “Percorsi di Eccellenza” for UG and PG students, Member of the Human Resources Strategy for Researchers (HRS4R) at La Sapienza, Member of the Academic Board of "Dottorato Nazionale in Intelligenza Artificiale" (ciclo XXXVII)

Among her society memberships, titles and research funding we list:
2011 Eligibility to become Researcher of third level at CNR, Italy (Idoneità CNR) 2014-2015 Sapienza Atheneum Fund (value 12 000 EUR)
2016 King’s Worldwide Partnership Fund (value 2 000 GBP)
2017 Fellow of the British Higher Education Academy
2018 Eligibility to become Associate Professor in Theoretical Physics (Abilitazione Nazionale)
2016-present Affiliate investigator of the Simons Collaboration “Cracking the Glass Problem” (https://scglass.uchicago.edu) (value 10 000 000 USD)

In her scientific career she mainly focuses on a theoretical physics approach to the study of disordered systems. She works on disordered materials such as glass formers, developing classical statistical mechanics tools and dynamical approaches to face the challenges peculiar to the description of glassy dynamics. She also investigates similar phenomenology arising in other realizations of disordered systems, such as well-mixed ecological systems, models of opinion formation in modern societies, inference problems and machine learning applications.

She published 33 papers on international scientific journals, 3 conference papers in top-rated conferences on Machine Learning and 1 preface to a special issue devoted to conference proceeding.
Her works have been cited
989 times for an h-index of 17 according to Google Scholar Citations (GSC) (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=vsLT1BIAAAAJ&hl=en),
and 604 times for an h-index of 14 according to ISI Web of Knowledge (WOK) (http://www.researcherid.com/rid/C-5038-2014 https://publons.com/researcher/2555749/chiara-cammarota/)
Among the publications there are 3 Physical Review X (IF: 14.4), 1 PNAS (IF: 9.5), 5 Physical Review Letter (IF: 8.8), 1 SciPost Physics (IF: 5.05), 4 Physical Review B (IF: 3.8), 1 New Journal of Physics (IF: 3.6), 2 Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications (IF: 2.9), 3 Journal of Chemical Physics (IF: 2.8), 1 Journal of Physics: Condensed matter (IF: 2.6), 1 Proceedings of Machine Learning Research (IF: 2.5), 2 Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 1 Physical Review E Rapid Communication (IF: 2.3), 5 Journal of Statistical Mechanics (IF: 2.4), 3 Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical (IF: 2.0), 4 Europhysics Letter (IF: 1.8), 2 preprints

She works as referee for the following peer-review international journals: Nature Communications, Physical Review Letters, Europhysics Letters, Physical Review E, Journal of Chemical Physics, Journal of Statistical Mechanics, Physical Review Materials
She is also Editor and member of the Program Committee of Mathematical and Scientific Machine Learning (MSML) editions 2020 and 2021 http://www.smartchair.org/hp/MSML2020/TOP/ and of the XXXII IUPAP Conference on Computational Physics (CCP2020) https://ccp2020.complexity-coventry.org/index.php

Since her PhD (~2008) she has given more than 50 scientific talks (of which ∼25 invited) in international Conferences, Workshops, Symposia and Lab Meetings.
Only in 2018/2019 she has been invited to give talks in the following international meetings:
- “Using Physical Insights for Machine Learning” University of California Los Angeles (US) November 2019
- “40 years of RSB” Sapienza Rome (IT) September 2019
- “The problem of ecological diversity” The Graduate Center-CUNY New York City (US) April 2019
- “American Physical Sociaty (APS) March Meeting” Boston (US) March 2019
- “At the Crossroad of Physics and Machine Learning” KITP Santa Barbara (US) February 2019
- “Disorder serendipity: a glassy path to discovery” Sapienza Rome September 2018
- “Statistical Physics and Machine Learning back together” Cargese (FR) August 2018
- “High-Dimensional Dynamics” The Graduate Center-CUNY New York City (US) April 2018
- “Stochastic Models in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology” Venice (IT) April 2018
She has organized the following international schools, workshops, conferences and programs
- “Rejuvenating Concepts in Glass Physics V”, IHP Paris, France, March 30, 2012 (http://lptms.u-psud.fr/workshop/rcigp/)
- Every year from 2014 to 2021 (except 2020), “The Beg Rohu Summer School”, French National Sailing School, Saint Pierre Quiberon, Brittany, France (https://www.ipht.fr/Meetings/BegRohu2019/index.html)
- “Unifying Concepts in Glass Physics VII”, Bristol, UK, 10-15 June 2018 (https://ucgp7.wordpress.com)
- “Rough Landscapes: From Physics to Algorithms”, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), Santa Barbara, California, US, Conference 7-11 Jan 2019, (https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/scape-c19)
- “The Rough High-Dimensional Landscape Problem”, Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP), Santa Barbara, California, US, two months program: 7 Jan-1 Mar 2019, (https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/activities/scape19)
- “Glassy Systems and Inter-Disciplinary Applications” that will take place in Cargese (Corsica) from June 28, 2021 to July 7, 2021