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Marco L. Della Vedova is a computer engineer and scientist with a strong interdisciplinary focus, leveraging computer science to address challenges across diverse fields. He likes algorithms, software, teaching, nature, sports, maps, and orienteering. Father of Lia and Michele. Read more about Marco in bio.
Marco is an Associate Professor of Applied Artificial Intelligence and serves as Director of the Master's Programme in Data Science and AI at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden 🇸🇪. His research focuses on interpretable AI, geo-spatial AI, and orienteering.
Recent news
- 2025-12-04 — Project funded! I've been awarded a grant (420,000 SEK for 2026) from the Swedish Research Council for Sport Science (Centrum för Idrottsforskning - CIF) for the research project "Spatial Intelligence and Performance in Orienteering."
- 2025-11-18 — I'm organizing the 1st International Conference on Orienteering in Scientific Research and Higher Education. It will be in Gothenburg, July 18-19, 2026, just before O-Ringen.
- 2025-11-01 — I started a new collaboration with the national team of the Swedish Orienteering Federation. We have an open position for a master thesis about orienteering data analysis.
- 2025-10-02 — I will be at icSPORTS conference in Marbella, Spain, 20-21 October 2025, to present an abstract titled "How Do Orienteers Know Where They Are? A Web-Based Tool to Study Human Localization Skills" (see video).
- 2025-09-25 — I received the Lanterna d'Argento award by the Italian Orienteering Federation (FISO).
- 2025-07-01 — I've been appointed as Director of the Master's Programme in Data Science and AI at Chalmers.