Marco Angelini

Prof. Marco Angelini is an Associate Professor in Engineering in Computer Science at Link Campus University of Rome. He achieved his Ph.D. in Engineering in Computer Science at the Department of Computer, Control, and Management of SAPIENZA University of Rome, with the thesis entitled “Predictive Visual Analytics: dealing with Situation Awareness, Prediction and Forecasting” on February 20th 2017, with the final grade of Level A (“Excellent”, top 25%). He previously studied Computer Science and Engineering at SAPIENZA University of Rome, where he obtained a master's degree in a.a. 2010/2011, with the final grade of 110/110.

Since October 2023, Prof. Marco Angelini has been a member of the Italian Government Prime Minister's Office National Commission on Artificial Intelligence, led by Father Paolo Benanti, which informed part of the first Italian Law on Artificial Intelligence.

Prof. Marco Angelini is the leader of the XAIber-lab (https://github.com/XAIber-lab), a research laboratory at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, eXplainability, and their application to cyberspace, including cybersecurity aspects and Human-centered computing, at Link Campus University of Rome.

Prof. Marco Angelini is a member of A.W.A.RE group (Advanced Visualization & Visual Analytics REsearch group). He has been a researcher in the Centre for Cyber-Intelligence and Security of SAPIENZA University of Rome (https://www.cis.uniroma1.it/en), where he participated in several projects, including the EU FP-7 project “PANOPTESEC”, about automatic detection, management and reaction to cyber-threats for Critical Infrastructures protection.

Prof. Marco Angelini is a member of the CINI Cybersecurity National Laboratory (https://cybersecnatlab.it/), where he coordinated national projects to strengthen the Cybersecurity posture of organizations in both the public and private sectors.

He is a co-author of the 2019 edition of the “National Framework for Cybersecurity and Data Protection” (https://www.cybersecurityframework.it/) and has coordinated the “CyberReadiness.IT” project on assessing cybersecurity awareness inside an organization (https://cybersecnatlab.it/cyberreadiness/).

Prof. Marco Angelini is a co-author of a methodology for cyber-risk assessment investigated in conjunction with several Italian Banking Groups.

Prof. Marco Angelini is the scientific director of the Master's in Artificial Intelligence (at its 5th edition) at Link Campus University of Rome.

Prof. Marco Angelini is a member of the Doctoral committee for the Ph.D. program in Human sciences for innovation, inclusion and sustainability of Link Campus University.

Prof. Marco Angelini is a member of the Doctoral committee for the National Ph.D. program in Cybersecurity joint between Sapienza University of Rome and LUISS.

His main research interests include:

·   Visual analytics, the process of combining visualization of information, interaction by user and analytical computation for solving heavy computational problems, with the overarching goal of increasing situational awareness and supporting the decision-making process during the different phases of the cyber-attack kill-chain.

·   Human-centered AI, studying novel ways to design AI models and adapt existing AI models to be used by a Human user, providing fairness, trust and explainability in the process, enabling human intelligence amplification

·   eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI), the process of making understandable and interpretable decisions coming from automatic artificial intelligence algorithms for the human user, in oarticular for deep learning (neural networks) approaches.

·   Cybersecurity, specifically focused on designing solutions for cyber-defense of critical infrastructures, security governance modelling and assessment of cyber-risk, open-source intelligence, malware analysis;

As a result of these activities, Prof. Marco Angelini has published more than 89 papers (see the complete list at the end of the document) in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences. At the current time, he has an h-index of 23 and 1805 citations on Google Scholar and an h-index of 15 and 1020 citations on Elsevier Scopus.