Luigi Portinale
Full Professor of Computer Science

Personal Info 

Born in Alba (Italy) in 1964.
Laurea degree (summa cum laude) in Computer Science from the University of Torino in 1988.
PhD in Computer Science from the University of Torino and Milano Consortium in 1994.

Assitant Professor: 1993-1998, Computer Science Department, University of Torino.
Assistant Professor: 1998-2000,  Associate Professor of Computer Science: 2000-2002, Department of Advanced Sciences and Technologies, U.P.O.
Associate Professor of Computer Science: 2002-2004, Department of Computer Science (Dipartimento di Informatica), U.P.O.
Full professor of Computer Science: 2004-now, Department of Computer Science, U.P.O.

Deputy Chair of the Computer Science Department (2005-2007)
Chair of the Computer Science Department from 2007 to 2011.
Visiting Professor at UNISG (Bra), 2012-2013.
Head of the Computer Science Institute 2012-2018.
Director of the UPO unit of the CINI  Laboratory for Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems   (2018-now)
Director of the Interdepartmental  Research Center on Artificial Intelligence AI@UPO (2020-now)
Co-founder of LIS: Laboratory for Intelligent Systems
Co-founder and CTO of Inferendo srl (spin-off of UPO)
Ellis member (2025-now)

AWARDS

• Sollac prize (best paper award) for the paper Focusing Abductive Diagnosis, 11th International Conference on Expert Systems and their Applications, Avignon, 1991 (with Luca Console e Daniele Theseider Dupre')

• D.J. Groen Prize 2015 of the Safety and Reliability Group, Institution of Mechanical Engineers (UK) for the paper Approaching Dynamic Reliability with Predictive and Diagnostic Purposes by exploiting Dynamic Bayesian Networks,  Journal of Risk and Reliability, 228(5), 2014 (with Daniele Codetta Raiteri)

Download complete  Curriculum Vitae et Studiorum with pubblications here

Pubblications

Contact me  [luigi.portinale@uniupo.it]