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I am an Associate Professor in Information Engineering at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of the University of Trento, Italy, where I founded the Distributed Intelligence and Optimization Lab (DIOL). Previously, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher in Germany (RWTH Aachen, 2017-2018), Switzerland (University of Lausanne and EPFL, 2013-2016), and The Netherlands (INCAS3, 2012-2016), as well as in industry in the areas of software engineering and industrial automation. I am co-PI of the PATHFINDER-CHALLENGE project "SUSTAIN" (2022-2026). Previously, I was co-PI of the FET-Open project "PHOENIX" (2015-2019). I have received two best paper awards (EvoApps 2017 and UKCI 2012). My research focuses on computational intelligence, distributed systems, and explainable AI applied e.g. to medicine. In these fields, I co-authored more than 150 peer-reviewed publications. I am actively involved in organizing tracks and workshops at some of the top conferences on computational intelligence, and I regularly serve as a reviewer for several journals and conference committees. I am an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, Applied Soft Computing, and Frontiers in Robotics and AI.

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