Alessandro Oltramari

Alessandro Oltramari is president of the Carnegie Bosch Institute and a senior research scientist at Bosch Research Technology Center in Pittsburgh (USA). As an industry mentor at CBI for two years, Oltramari has dedicated himself to helping to shape the CBI fellowship program and continues to serve as a guide and mentor to the first cohort of CBI fellows.

Oltramari joined Bosch Research in 2016, after working as a research associate at Carnegie Mellon University, funded by public agencies like DARPA, NSF, ARL. At Bosch Research, he focuses on neuro-symbolic AI. His primary interest is to investigate how knowledge systems can be integrated with learning algorithms, and help humans and machines make sense of the physical and digital worlds. He holds a Ph.D. in cognitive science from the University of Trento (Italy). He had a ten-year tenure at the Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council (ISTC-CNR), where he maintains an associate researcher position. He spent two semesters at Princeton University in 2005 and 2006 as a visiting scholar. His research record lists about 100 publications. He received the Army Research Lab's Above and Beyond award, received multiple best paper awards and has been featured in major news media outlets such as CNET and The New Scientist.