Edoardo Barba, PhD - Chief Technology Officer

Short Bio:
Edoardo Barba is Co-Founder of Principled Intelligence, a deep-tech company building principled, safe, and compliant AI systems for high-stakes enterprise environments. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Sapienza University of Rome, where he conducted research on large language models and applied NLP.

Long Bio:
Edoardo Barba is Co-Founder of Principled Intelligence, a deep-tech company focused on building principled, safe, and compliant AI systems for real-world, high-stakes applications. His work centers on bringing large language models into production environments by integrating strong modeling capabilities with governance, safety, and alignment by design.

Before founding Principled Intelligence, Edoardo was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome, where he worked with the Sapienza NLP group led by Roberto Navigli. His research background spans lexical semantics—particularly Entity Linking and Word Sense Disambiguation—and large-scale language modeling. He contributed extensively to Minerva, one of the first families of large language models trained from scratch on Italian data. Edoardo earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Sapienza University of Rome in 2023, with a thesis on semantic modeling and natural language representations in neural systems.