Barbara Pes is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Cagliari, Italy, where she taught/teaches foundations of computer science and database and data mining courses.

She has participated in several research projects on web-based information systems, service-oriented architectures, data integration, high-dimensional data analysis, and bioinformatics. She is the author/coauthor of more than 80 papers published in international conferences, books, and journals. Her current research interests include the fields of data mining and machine learning, classification of high-dimensional data, and advanced feature selection methods.