Summary
Daniele Di Mitri is a professor and AI researcher with 11 years of experience building multimodal learning technologies and applied research in AI for education. He founded a web startup early in his career and progressed through research roles—PhD work on wearable learning analytics and postdoc projects on smart cities—before leading an AI-in-Education group at the Leibniz Institute (DIPF). Now appointed Univ-Prof at the German University of Digital Science, he is establishing a research group and shaping an online master's in Advanced Digital Realities that blends MOOCs, sensor-driven learning, and affective computing. His work bridges hands-on engineering (IoT, AR, time-series ML) and educational psychology, producing practical systems from prototypes to institutional programs. Based in Cologne, he combines academic leadership with entrepreneurial roots and a consistent focus on making multimodal AI actionable in real-world learning contexts.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc), Artificial Intelligence, 8.1/10 GPA, Master of Science (MSc), Artificial Intelligence, 8.1/10 GPA at Maastricht University
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Digital Communication, 106/110, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science and Digital Communication, 106/110 at Università degli Studi di Bari
Scientific lyceum "A. Scacchi"
Italian, English, French, Dutch, German, Spanish