Cristina Cavalleri is a Research Fellow at Osservatori Digital Innovation of Politecnico di Milano, where she contributes to the research activities of the Big Data & Business Analytics Observatory and of the Software & Digital Native Innovation Observatory.

She held her Master of Science in Data Analytics for Business and Economics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan, with a final dissertation on Natural Language Processing titled "Boosting pre-trained language models with structured knowledge".

During her studies, she also spent a semester at Umeå University, in Sweden, studying Big Data and High-Dimensional Data Analysis among other subjects.