Iacopo Testi

Iacopo Testi is an italian data scientist and urban technologist. His professional and academic interests revolve around the development and applications of data science methodologies to transform urban environments into sustainable and senseable cities.

He is research affiliate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Senseable City Laboratory) where he conducts research at the intersection of urban sustainability, data science and artificial intelligence. In 2021, Iacopo was nominated “Spatial Data Scientist of the Year” by Carto, one of the global leaders in location intelligence. In October 2020, he was sponsored by the European Space Agency within its Network of Resources (NoR). He is currently associate at TSCAI (The Smart City Association Italy), advisor at the Rome Municipality Smart City Laboratory, and earth observation data scientist at RHEA Group.

He holds a Master of Science in Sustainable and Resilient Cities at KU Leuven University and a master in Data Science at Tor Vergata University. In 2019 he won national funding to investigate on urban science at the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC).