Lucia Sacchi is Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering at the University of Pavia, Italy. She has a background in Computer Engineering and a PhD in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics.

She is currently the scientific coordinator of the OHDSI Italian National Node, within the OHDSI EU Chapter. She has been the President of the Italian Society of Biomedical Informatics (SIBIM) and Chair of the IMIA working group on Data Mining and Big Data Analytics.

She is Associate Editor of the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Journal.

Her research interests are focused on AI applications in health care, design and development of clinical decision support systems, and technologies for real world data (RWD) integration and analysis.