Diego Perino, Dr., is the director of Telefonica Research. Prior to
Telefonica, he worked at Bell Labs, NICTA, Orange Labs. He works boundaries of research and innovation, to advance state of the art in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) areas, and ensure the successful exploitation of research outputs via technology transfer and industrial impact. He leads  a team of researchers and technical experts in Machine Learning/Deep Learning, HCI, Security/Privacy and Networks/Systems. 
He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Paris Diderot-Paris 7, M.S. in Networking engineering at Politecnico di Torino and Eurecom Institute of Sophia Antipolis.