

daria loi
about
about
Senior technical leader, with a 20+ years industry and academic experience and the goal and passion to mix design strategy with agile user experience (UX) research and innovation to enrich people’s everyday life and humanize technology.
​My current focus is Artificial Intelligence (AI), with an emphasis on smart spaces, sensor technology and aging in place. Prior to Intel, I worked as architect in Italy and Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University in Australia.
​I am committee member and reviewer for several international journals, institutes and conferences and conducted research and presented in 6 continents. In 2018 I was recognized as one of Italy's 50 most inspiring women in tech (InspiringFifty initiative).
Senior technical leader, with a 20+ years industry and academic experience and the goal and passion to mix design strategy with agile user experience (UX) research and innovation to enrich people’s everyday life and humanize technology.
​My current focus is Artificial Intelligence (AI), with an emphasis on smart spaces, sensor technology and aging in place. Prior to Intel, I worked as architect in Italy and Senior Research Fellow at RMIT University in Australia.
​I am committee member and reviewer for several international journals, institutes and conferences and conducted research and presented in 6 continents. In 2018 I was recognized as one of Italy's 50 most inspiring women in tech (InspiringFifty initiative).
death.
I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
Helen Keller
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Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
Dr. Seuss

Pedaling through sadness, as one
Antique wood container, acrylic, vintage photo, paper, coral, garnets, vintage brass pendant, encyclopedia paper, red obsidian, shells, gold paint, glass beads. 9" x 13" x 7"

They were 50
Custom cardboard suitcase, glass slides, butterflies, wood box, metal thread, paper, felt, bone, metal pellets, plastic jars, perler beads, acrylic container.
This piece was my response to on the 2016 Pulse shooting in Orlando, Florida.

3 and 1/2 accidents
Custom cardboard suitcase, acrylic containers, mice encased in acrylic, paper, felt.
This piece was my response to the prescription drug epidemic, with a focus on famous prescription drugs deaths.

About 35%
Custom cardboard suitcase, ceramic doll hands, paper, sand.
This piece was my response to the Syrian conflict and its young victims.

Uno.Sole.
Custom cardboard suitcase, glass jars, acrylic paint, paper, felt, lichens, cardboard.​
This piece focused on prematurely departing fathers, including my own.

36 fairytales
Custom cardboard suitcase, mica, glass jars, glass, LED lights, paper, vellum, fiber, lace, Swarovski gems, acrylic.
This piece focused on Lady Diana's death and life.