Simone Conia, PhD - Chief Executive Officer

Short Bio:
Simone Conia is Co-Founder and CEO of Principled Intelligence, a deep-tech company building principled, safe, and compliant AI systems for high-stakes enterprise use. He previously served as Assistant Professor at Sapienza University of Rome and as a Research Scientist at Apple, working on multilingual language understanding and large language models.

Long Bio:
Simone Conia is Co-Founder and CEO of Principled Intelligence, a deep-tech company focused on building principled, safe, and compliant AI systems for real-world, high-stakes applications. His work lies at the intersection of large language models, multilingual NLP, robust evaluation, and AI governance, with a strong emphasis on bringing advanced language models into production environments responsibly.

Before founding Principled Intelligence, Simone was an Assistant Professor at Sapienza University of Rome, where he conducted research on language modeling and applied NLP. He also worked as a Research Scientist at Apple, contributing to multilingual language understanding and generation within large-scale, real-world AI systems. Simone was technical co-lead of Minerva, the first family of large language models trained from scratch on Italian data.

He is the author of over 40 peer-reviewed publications at leading AI and NLP venues, including ACL, EMNLP, NAACL, AAAI, and IJCAI, and his work has received multiple awards, such as Outstanding Paper Awards at EMNLP 2024 and NAACL 2021. Simone holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Sapienza University of Rome.