Kyriaki Kalimeri is a researcher at the ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy, while previously she has been a research assistant at the Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy. She received her Ph.D. degree from the University of Trento in 2013, while was a visiting Ph.D. at the Human Dynamics Group at MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, USA. She holds a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Crete in 2008. Her current research interests lie at the intersection of computational social science and engineering, and in particular on employing statistical machine learning and natural language processing for humanitarian response.