Francesco Ricca (www.mat.unical.it/ricca) is Full Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Mathematics of the University of Calabria, Italy.
He received his Laurea Degree in Computer Science Engineering (2002) and a PhD in Computer Science and Mathematics (2006) from the University of Calabria, Italy.
Francesco Ricca research interests belong to the AI area of knowledge representation and reasoning. His particular research focus lies on Answer Set Programming.
He is member of the Executive Board of the Association for Logic Programming, member of the steering committee of the Rule and Reasoning Association (RRA), and member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Association for Computational Logic (GULP). He was program (co-)chair of ICLP20, RuleML+RR18 and is general chair of ICLP25.
He was a lecturer in many editions (2023-2024-2025) of the ESSAI Summer school.
Francesco Ricca is co-author of more than 150 refereed research articles published in international journals (40+), collections, and conference proceedings.
A list of Francesco Ricca's scientific publications can be found at https://dblp.org/pid/r/FrancescoRicca .