Francesco Iorio is a co-founder and CEO of Augmenta, where he assembles experts from artificial intelligence, advanced computational science and user-centered design to transform the way buildings are designed and built.
Before Augmenta, Iorio served as Director of Computational Science Research at Autodesk Research where he led a group of researchers and engineers in exploring state-of-the-art computational science projects that pioneered modern generative design.
Previously, Iorio was a solution architect for next generation computing systems at the IBM High Performance Computing Group in Dublin, Ireland, specifically focusing on accelerating financial, engineering and digital media workloads using hybrid high-performance computing platforms.
He holds a MSc in information technology from the University of Liverpool and a PhD in computer science from the University of Toronto, published and presented at multiple scientific conferences, and a co-inventor of several patents.