Mauro Martino

Mauro Martino is a principal research staff member and manager with IBM. He is a scientist and artist, who focuses on information technology related to exploration, dissemination and sharing of knowledge. He uses artificial intelligence to explore and enhance understanding of the world, transforming any type of information, whether it is visual, acoustic, or semantic, into interactive tools that are beautiful and simple to use. Martino explores and develops new ways to experience data: creating new techniques to display and visualize data, experimenting with new interaction methods and user involvement, introducing artificial intelligence to help users analyze information, creating transparent and more intuitive machine learning models, and finally, always trying to introduce beauty and elegance in every interactive narrative.

Previously, he was a research affiliate with the SENSEable City Lab at MIT, working on data visualization within the lab’s many projects and his related research project, Urban Interaction Design, while earning a PhD in design and technologies at Politecnico di Milano, Italy.