Dr. Ing. Julia Hoxha

Zana Technologies / Co-founder and CEO

Dr. Ing. Julia Hoxha




Dr. Ing. Julia Hoxha is cofounder and CEO of Zana Technologies GmbH. She is a former postdoctoral research scientist in Medical Informatics at Columbia University, and former research associate at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. Julia is the author of numerous scientific publications in the intersection of machine learning, recommender systems, and semantic technologies.

At 21, Julia cofounded her first company, a software house that she led as CTO. She is also founder of other ventures, one of them with a successful exit. In 2019, Julia was named “Woman of the Year in ICT” from Albanian ICT Awards.