I am Docente-Ricercatore (maître d'enseignement et de recherche MER/Lecturer-Researcher) at the Institute of Digital Technologies for Communication (ITDxC), Faculty of Communication, Culture and Society,
Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), Lugano, Switzerland.
My research interests are in the area of Artificial Intelligence, in the field of
Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (MAS), in particular in Normative Multiagent Systems and
Artificial Institutions for the specification of Open Interaction Systems by using Semantic Web Technologies.
Upcoming events
- Co-Organizer of the Dagstuhl Seminar 25271, Policy Modeling and Reasoning in Sociotechnical Systems (Jun 29 - Jul 04, 2025)
- Invited to the Dagstuhl Seminar 25051 Trust and Accountability in Knowledge Graph-Based AI for Self Determination ( Jan 26 - Jan 31, 2025 )
Projects
- In 2024 I am co-supervisor of the project Generative AI in education @ USI funded by Università della Svizzera italiana Category: USI Internal calls / Projects for Innovation in Teaching .
- The list of my projects funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation is
available here.
- From 2015 to 2016, I was principal investigator of a project funded by the Hasler Foundation.
- From 2013 to 2015, I was the principal investigator of a project funded by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education Research (SERI) within the COST Action IS1004 WEBDATANET.
- In the initial part of my doctoral studies, I was supported by a FP4 EU project at IDISA (Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence).
Teaching
- Since 2000, I have been teaching assistant and lecturer of courses on digital technologies for communication at Università della Svizzera italiana, Faculty of Communication Science.
- From 2005 to 2020 I was teaching assistant and lecturer of database courses at Politecnico di Milano (Faculty of Computer Engineering).
- In 2010 and 20111 I was lecturer in the Degree of Advanced Studies in Internet Applications at Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana (SUPSI).
Service: Program Committees and Reviewer
AAA-I, AAMAS, IJCAI, ECAI; EUMAS, PRIMA, COINE, Semantic Web journal (by IOS Press).
Memberships:
- Co-Chair of the W3C ODRL (Open Digital Rights Language) Community Group coordinating the activities of the group defining the semantics of ODRL.
- Steering committee of COIN (Coordination, Organization, Institutions and Norms in agent systems) Workshop series.
- From 2010 to 2012 I was Substitute Member for Switzerland of the Management Committee of the COST Action IC0801 on Agreement Technologies.
- From 2011 to 2015 I was Member for Switzerland of the Management Committee of the COST Action IS1004 on WEBDATANET: web-based data-collection - methodological challenges, solutions and implementations.