Stefania is a UX Data Scientist, Strategist & Evangelist. She is director of user experience at Pearson. Before then, she was Sr. Quantitative UX Researcher at Express Scripts and Vice President of Research at Vast, a medium size startup that raised $14 million last year. Previously, she worked as a Statistician and Human Factors Engineer at the Federal Aviation Administration and as a researcher at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She also served as a consultant for Fortune 500 companies, including Southwest Airlines, USAA and Google.

She obtained a doctorate degree in Cognitive Psychology from Sapienza University of Rome in Italy. She loves teaching, spending time with her family, cooking delicious Italian food and playing board games. She also loves music. Fun fact: her graduate school job was at a record store specialized in rare vinyl. She was also a freelance contributor of an Italian music magazine.