CommittEes

Gianluca Zaza is an assistant professor at the University of Bari Aldo Moro and is a member of the Computational Intelligence Laboratory (CILab). He is working on "Understandability of AI systems" within the NRRP project "FAIR - Future Artificial Intelligence Research," Spoke 6 - Symbiotic AI. He is the project coordinator for the research project titled "Computational Models based on Fuzzy Logic for eXplainable Artificial Intelligence," which is funded for one year under the "Research Projects GNCS 2023" grant. He is a Guest Co-Editor of the Special Issue "Computational Intelligence in Healthcare" in Bioengineering (MDPI) and an Associate Editor for the Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems (IOS Press). He is a reviewer for several international journals published by leading publishers, including Elsevier and Springer.

Giovanna Castellano is an Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, where she coordinates the Computational Intelligence Laboratory (CILab). Her research interests are in the area of Computational Intelligence and Computer Vision. She has been responsible for the local unit of several research projects and is currently the Principal Investigator of the WP 6.4 "Understandability of AI systems" in the NRRP "FAIR - Future Artificial Intelligence Research" project, Spoke 6 - Symbiotic AI. She is an Associate Editor of several international journals. She has been a Guest Editor of special issues and participated in organizing scientific events. She is a reviewer for several international journals published by leading publishers, including Elsevier, IEEE, and Springer, and a member of the program committee of several international conferences. She is a member of the IEEE Society, EUSFLAT Society, INDAM-GNCS Society, IAPR Technical Committee 19 (Computer Vision for Cultural Heritage Applications), CINI-AIIS laboratory, CINI-BIG DATA laboratory, CITEL telemedicine research center, GRIN, MIR laboratories. She is also a member of the IEEE CIS Task Force on Explainable Fuzzy Systems.

Gabriella Casalino is an Assistant Professor at the Computational Intelligence Laboratory (CILab) of the Informatics Department of the University of Bari. Her research is focused on Computational Intelligence with a particular interest in data analysis. She is currently working on Computational Intelligence for eHealth, Data Stream Mining, and Explainable Artificial Intelligence. She is active in the computer science community as a reviewer for international journals and conferences. She is also involved in the organizing committees of special sessions/workshops at international conferences such as IEEE EAIS, Eusflat, FUZZ-IEEE. She is Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, Soft Computing, and Journal of Intelligent and Fuzzy System. She is also Guest Editor of several special issues (IEEE SMC Magazine, IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems). She was a visiting researcher at the Universitè de Mons (Belgium), the Polish Academy of Sciences, the Warsaw University of Technology (Poland), and the University of Ghent (Belgium). She is a Senior member of IEEE society and received the FUZZ-IEEE Best Paper award.