Barbara ScalviniAssistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of the Faroe Islands

AI Meets the Islands: Shaping the Future of Faroese in the Digital World

Barbara Scalvini was born in Chiari, Italy in 1992. After studying Physics (Bachelor and Master) in Milan, she completed her Master thesis at TU Delft’s Delft Center of Systems and Control, focusing on adaptive optics. She then pursued a PhD at Leiden University in Computational Life Sciences, where she developed computational methods for analyzing biomolecular topology. Currently, she lives in the Faroe Islands, where she applies her Natural Language Processing expertise to develop Faroese language technology as an Assistant Professor in Computer Science at the University of the Faroe Islands, contributing to the Language Technology Centre (Máltøknidepilin) as Technical Lead. Here, she also teaches Introduction to AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning in the Master in Data Science. Passionate about the intersection of technology and language preservation, Barbara is deeply committed to revitalizing low-resource languages, believing that language and identity are intertwined.