Main Position

• [Since 2022] Research Director at Centai (Center for Artificial Intelligence), Turin, Italy.

Other Positions

• [Since 2025] Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of The Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
• [Since 2025] Associate Editor of npj Artificial Intelligence .
• [Since 2024] Member of the Governmental Task-Force "Commissione Intelligenza Artificiale per l'informazione" (Italian Government), Rome, Italy.
• [Since 2022] CEO at SOM (Sound of Mind) S.r.l., the holding of researchers owning the 51/% of Centai (Center for Artificial Intelligence), Turin, Italy.
• [Since 2022] Member of the Board of Directors at Centai (Center for Artificial Intelligence), Turin, Italy.
• [Since 2022] Member of the Board of Directors at Anti-Financial Crime Digital Hub, Turin, Italy.
• [Since 2015] (Part-time) Research Director for "Big Data & Data Science" at Eurecat (Technological Center of Catalunya), Barcelona.
• [Since 2018] Member of the Academic Board of the PhD program in "Data Science" at "La Sapienza" University of Rome.
• [Since 2024] Member of the Ethics Committee of the ONCODIR EU project.
• [Since 2024] "Computational Complexity" Section Editor of PLOS Complex Systems.
• [Since 2018] Member of the IEEE DSAA Steering Committee.
• [Since 2018] Associate Editor of International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (JDSA).
• [Since 2010] Member of the ECML PKDD Steering Committee.

Past Positions

• [2020 - 2022] Scientific Director of ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy.
• [2020 - 2022] Coordinator of the "Learning and Algorithms for Data Analytics" Research Area at ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy.
• [2019 - 2022] Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Competence Center Machine Learning Rhine-Ruhr (ML2R) (later became The Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence ).
• [2019 - 2023] Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of RAIS (Real-time Analytics for Internet of Sports) Marie Curie European Training Network
• [2018 - 2020] Deputy Director for the Industrial Research area at ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy.
• [2015 - 2020] Research Leader for "Algorithmic Data Analytics" group at ISI Foundation, Turin, Italy.
• [2017 - 2019] Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Veritone Inc., (NASDAQ: VERI)
• [2014 - 2015] Director of Research at Yahoo Labs, Barcelona.
• [2017 - 2018] Member of the Academic Board of the PhD program in "Data Science and Computation" at University of Bologna (the first PhD program in Data Science in Italy).
• [2018 - 2024] Associate Editor of ACM Transactions on Knowledge Discovery from Data (TKDD).
• [2013 - 2018] Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (TKDE).
• [2015 - 2018] Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Big Data (TBD).
• [2013 - 2016] Member of the Editorial Board of ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology (TIST).
• [2015 - 2018] Member of the Editorial Board of Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery (DMKD).
• [2014 - 2016] Associate Editor of Knowledge and Information Systems: An International Journal (KAIS).
• [2012 - 2015] Head of the Web Mining Research group at Yahoo Labs, Barcelona.
• [2010 - 2014] Senior Research Scientist at Yahoo Labs.
• [2008 - 2010] Researcher at Yahoo! Research Barcelona, Spain.
• [2010 - 2013] Organizer of the Yahoo! Research Barcelona Seminars series.
• [2003 - 2007] Researcher at KDD Lab ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy.