Alessandra Sala is an Italian computer scientist specializing in distributed algorithms for graph theory, social network analysis, and data privacy. She works for Shutterstock in Ireland, as the director of AI and Data Science. Formerly, she worked for Bell Labs in Ireland, as head of Analytics Research. She is also chief ambassador for Women in AI Ireland, a non-profit organisation working for gender inclusivity in artificial intelligence, and a member of the advisory board of Ireland's National Centre for Applied Data Analytics and Machine Intelligence (CeADAR).