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Academic Achievements
2023 INFORMS (The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) Test of Time Paper Award winner; IEEE Fellow (class of 2009); Publications: THE LION WAY, Machine Learning plus Intelligent Optimization, Reactive Search and Intelligent Optimization.
Research Experience
Leading the LION (machine Learning and Intelligent OptimizatioN) initiative; Teaching courses: Machine learning for data science, Intelligent optimization for data science.
Education
Received Laurea in Theoretical Physics from the University of Trento, Italy in 1985; Ph.D. in Computer Science and Neural Networks from the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in 1990.
Background
Research Interests: machine learning and intelligent optimization (LION), reactive search optimization (RSO); Professional Field: Computer Science; Brief Introduction: Using data to build flexible models and extract actionable knowledge, exploiting knowledge to automate the discovery of improving solutions, connecting insight to decisions and actions.
Miscellany
Member of the advisory committee for the future Telecommunications Plan of the Autonomous Province of Trento; Member of the Faculty Commission for Teaching Evaluation; Representative of the Faculty of Science in the PhD 'future strategies' commission of the University of Trento; Member of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.