Violetta Laura Cavalli-Sforza
School - School of Science and Engineering Employment Status - Full-Time Office - Building 7, Office No. 110 Office hours - Office hours - See office door for current office hours Office extension - (+212) 535-862-106Violetta Cavalli-Sforza is an Associate Professor of Computer Science in the School of Science and Engineering at Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco. She is the Computer Science Subject Lead. She earned her PhD. in Intelligent Systems from the University of Pittsburgh, U.S.A. She also holds a Master of Science in Computer Science and Computer Engineering and a Master of Science in Civil Engineering from Stanford University.
Before joining AUI in 2008, she was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at San Francisco State Universiyt, a Visiting Researcher at Carnegie Mellon University, and a Fulbright Scholar in Morocco. Her research interests include computer-assisted education and natural language processing, with applications in language learning and text readability particularly for Modern Standard Arabic and Moroccan Arabic. She has published 8 journal papers, 48 conference and 10 workshop papers, and 7 book chapters. She has received funding from the Linguistic Data Consortium (University of Pennsylvania) to construct language resources for Moroccan and Iraqi Arabic dialects, the Fulbright Association, the American Association from the Advancement of Science, the National Science Foundation, and several internal grants from Al Akhawayn University. She has been a member of the Tau Beta Pi engineering honor society since 1977.
Her teaching interests include undergraduate and graduate courses in Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, and Human-Computer Interaction, and undergraduate courses in Programming Languages, Compilers, Data Structures, and beginning Computer Programming.