MSCA DN Unipd Supervisor: Alessandro Sperduti

Alessandro Sperduti received the degree in computer science cum laude in 1988 and the PhD in 1993 from University of Pisa, Italy. He is a Full Professor at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Padova since March 1, 2002. Previously, he has been associate professor (1998-2002) and assistant professor (1995-1998) at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa. He  is currently director of the Augmented Intelligence Center of Fondazione Bruno Kessler, and director of the Human Inspired Technology Research Center of the University of Padova. His research interests are mainly in Neural Networks, Kernel Methods, and Process Mining. Prof. Sperduti has been General co-chair of IEEE WCCI 2022, Area Chair/PC member of several conferences (such as NeurIPS, IJCAI, ICML, ICLR, ECAI, ECML). He has been associate editor (2009-2012) for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, and other journals, such as Neural Networks. He is currently Action Editor for the Transactions on Machine Learning Research (open access). Starting from 2001 till 2010, he has been member of the European Neural Networks Society (ENNS) Executive Committee, chair of the DMTC of IEEE CIS for the years 2009 and 2010, chair of the NNTC for the years 2011 and 2012, chair of other IEEE CIS committees, and member of the IEEE Frank Rosenblatt Award Committee (2014-2015). He is senior member IEEE. He was the recipient of the 2000 AI*IA (Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence) “MARCO SOMALVICO” Young Researcher Award, and Italian Knowledge Leader for 2022 by ENIT. Prof. Sperduti is the author of more than 250 publications on refereed journals, conferences, and chapters in books.