Paper 'Towards the Terminator Economy: Assessing Job Exposure to AI through LLMs' accepted at IJCAI-25; featured in La Repubblica, Radio24, Canadian HRReporter, Wired, RaiNews24
Paper 'ITALIC: An Italian Culture-Aware Natural Language Benchmark' presented at NAACL-25; covered by La Repubblica
Paper on LLM proficiency evaluation using Italian INVALSI benchmark accepted at ECML-PKDD-25
Paper 'RE-FIN: Retrieval-based Enrichment for Financial data' accepted at COLING-25
Developed MERLIN: a model-agnostic, global, contrastive explainer for classifiers, published in Decision Support Systems and available on GitHub
Serving as (Senior) Program Committee member for top-tier conferences including AAAI, IJCAI, EMNLP, NAACL, COLING, ECML-PKDD, CIKM
Research Experience
Mar 2024–present: Full Professor at University of Milano-Bicocca
Oct 2024–present: Deputy Director, Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Milano-Bicocca
2022–present: Director of Master in AI and Data Analytics for Business, University of Milano-Bicocca
2010–present: Member of Scientific Committee, CRISP Research Centre, Milan
Dec 2021–Feb 2024: Associate Professor at University of Milano-Bicocca
2020–Aug 2023: Deputy Director of CRISP Research Centre
2016–Nov 2021: Assistant Professor at University of Milano-Bicocca
2011–2016: PostDoc at University of Milano-Bicocca
2017–2018: Partner at TabulaeX Ltd (now LightCast), working on BI and Big Data Analytics
2015–2016: Visiting Researcher at King’s College London, AI Planning Group, UK
Background
Full Professor of Computer Science at University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Expertise in Artificial Intelligence and Data Science
Research interests include: eXplainable AI (XAI), interpretable models, local and global interpretation, symbolic explanation methods, fairness
Data Science research areas: Big Data Analytics, Ontology Learning, Word Embedding Evaluation, Large Language Models (LLMs)
Formerly focused on AI Planning, including domain-independent planning, temporal continuous planning, and hybrid discrete-continuous domain planning