Career

Academic appointments

• 2026–
  Rector's Delegate for Artificial Intelligence, University of Bergamo
• 2025–
  Associate Professor of Computer Science, Department of Economics, University of Bergamo
• 2022–25
  Researcher in Computer Science, University of Bergamo
• 2020–22
  Associate Professor of Operational Research, University of Southampton
• 2016–20
  Lecturer in Operational Research, University of Southampton
• 2019
  Visiting Professor, Université Paris Dauphine
• 2018
  Visiting Professor, Politecnico di Milano & Université Paris Dauphine
• 2012–16
  Postdoctoral Researcher, RWTH Aachen University (Discrete Optimization group, Prof. A. Koster)
• 2011–12
  Postdoctoral Researcher, Politecnico di Milano (Operations Research group, Prof. F. Maffioli)
• 2010
  Visiting Scholar, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University (host: Prof. F. Margot)

Institutional roles & memberships

• 2026–
  Member, Scientific and Technical Committee, RAISE — Research Centre for Responsible Artificial Intelligence, Society and Ethics, University of Bergamo
• 2026–
  Member, ELLIS Society e.V., ELLIS Unit Milan
• 2026–
  Member, Unione Matematica Italiana (UMI)
• 2025–
  Member of the doctoral board and curriculum coordinator, PhD in Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Futures, University of Bergamo
• 2023–25
  Member of the doctoral board, PhD in Economics, University of Bergamo
• 2023–
  Member, Interdepartmental Working Group on Artificial Intelligence, University of Bergamo
• 2023–
  BSc Dissertation Officer, Department of Economics, University of Bergamo; worked on supervisor-allocation procedures and ESSE3/Cineca integration
• UniBg
  Member of the working group that drafted university guidelines for the adoption of AI by students, faculty/researchers, and technical-administrative staff
• UniBg
  Member of technical groups evaluating procurement of university chatbot/LLM licences and a new student-services ticketing system
• 2022–25
  TOLC examination commissioner on three examination sessions, University of Bergamo

Teaching at the University of Bergamo

• 2026–27
  AI lecture, Master LEAD-PA (Management, innovazione, leadership e digitalizzazione delle amministrazioni pubbliche), III edition; AI lecture for a delegation from China, in a training programme on digital transformation, smart manufacturing, and the industrial internet, School of Management (3h, with Italian–Chinese interpretation, 22 Sep 2026)
• 2025–26
  Neural Networks and Deep Learning (48h); Intelligenza Artificiale per la Comunicazione (38h); Informatica 86038 (48h); Soft & Digital Skills (6h); Soft & Computational Skills (6h); AI: evolution, principles, and tools, Master DADS (8h); AI lectures, Master LEAD-PA (Management, innovazione, leadership e digitalizzazione delle amministrazioni pubbliche), including a lecture on AI and data analysis with D. Toninelli; online lecture "Inside Artificial Intelligence: Power, Limits, and Societal Impact" in English for prospective international students, with Docsity (30 Oct 2025, recording)
• 2024–25
  Neural Networks and Deep Learning (48h); Intelligenza Artificiale per la Comunicazione (38h); Informatica 86038 (48h); Soft & Digital Skills (6h); Soft & Computational Skills (6h); AI and generative AI, Master DADS (4h)
• 2023–24
  Informatica 86038 & 87111 (48h, twice); round table on AI with A. Ferramosca and M. F. Murru, CREO LAB Tecnologie digitali e intelligenza artificiale (CREO entrepreneurship programme, Dalmine, 6 Apr 2024)
• 2022–23
  Informatica 86038 & 87111 (48h, twice)

Teaching at the University of Southampton

• 2021–22
  MATH2014 Algorithms (48h, module leader); Combinatorial Optimization, NATCOR (~50 PhD students, course co-leader)
• 2020–21
  MATH1058 Operational Research I and Mathematical Computing (30h, module leader); MATH2014 Algorithms (48h, module leader)
• 2019–20
  MATH1058 Operational Research I and Mathematical Computing (30h, module leader); MATH2014 Algorithms (48h, module leader); Combinatorial Optimization, NATCOR
• 2018–19
  MATH1058 Operational Research I and Mathematical Computing (30h, module leader); MATH2014 Algorithms (48h, module leader)
• 2017–18
  MATH1058 Operational Research I and Mathematical Computing (30h, module leader); MATH2014 Algorithms (48h, module leader); MATH2013 Introduction to Operational Research (module co-leader)
• 2016–17
  MATH2014 Algorithms (48h, module leader)
• 2015–16
  MATH2014 Algorithms (24h, with C. Potts)

Earlier teaching

• 2015–16
  Optimization B (20h, with A. Koster), RWTH Aachen University
• 2011–12
  Foundations of Operations Research (45h, module leader), Politecnico di Milano, Como Campus

PhD supervision & examination

• 2026–
  Supervisor of Arash Abedi and Marco Zubani, PhD in Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Futures, University of Bergamo
• 2025–
  Supervisor of Federico Belotti, PhD in Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Futures, University of Bergamo
• 2016–26
  Supervisor or co-supervisor of seven PhD students at the University of Southampton (see Research Group)
• 2026
  PhD dissertation committee member, Industrial and Systems Engineering, Lehigh University
• 2026
  PhD examination committee member, Information Technologies (38th cycle), University of Parma
• 2024
  PhD final-examination committee member, Mathematics, University of Pavia
• 2024
  PhD final-examination committee member, Computational Mathematics, Learning and Data Science, University of Pavia
• 2024–25
  PhD examination committee member, Mathematics, TU Berlin
• 2023
  PhD final-examination committee member, Computer Science (35th cycle), University of Milano-Bicocca
• 2022–23
  External examiner, PhD in Computational Mathematics and Decision Sciences, University of Pavia
• 2021–22
  External examiner, PhD in Informatics, University of Technology of Compiègne; internal examiner (MPhil, Operational Research) and independent chair (PhD, Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics), University of Southampton
• 2020–21
  Internal examiner, PhD in Operational Research, University of Southampton

Editorial & program-committee service

• 2020–
  Associate Editor, Asia-Pacific Journal of Operational Research
• 2016–26
  Program committee member: AAAI (2016–2018, 2023–2026), IJCAI (2016, 2019), IJCAI-ECAI 2018, NeurIPS 2025, ECAI 2025, EvoApplications (2020, 2021, 2023, 2024, 2026), ICCL (2017, 2018), EvoCOMNET (2017, 2018)
• Referee
  Journals including European Journal of Operational Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Operations Research, Operations Research Letters, Computers & Operations Research, Discrete Optimization, SIAM Journal on Optimization, Journal of the Operational Research Society, 4OR, Annals of Operations Research, TOP, and IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management
• Evaluation
  Grant reviewer for FONDECYT, Chile (2022) and NSERC, Canada (2020); referee for the Italian research-quality assessment VQR 2015–19

Education

• 2008–11
  PhD in Information Technology, Politecnico di Milano (advisor: Prof. E. Amaldi). Thesis: On coordinated cutting plane generation and mixed integer programs with nonconvex 2-norm constraints.
• 2005–07
  MSc in Engineering of Computing Systems, Politecnico di Milano. Grade: 110/110 cum laude.
• 2002–05
  BSc in Engineering of Computing Systems, Politecnico di Milano. Grade: 110/110 cum laude.

Fellowships & qualifications

• 2022
  Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as Full Professor — Operations Research
• 2021–23
  Fellow, Alan Turing Institute, UK
• 2021
  Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as Associate Professor — Computer Science
• 2020
  Italian National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as Associate Professor — Operations Research
• 2017–
  Fellow, Higher Education Academy (UK Professional Standards Framework), ref. PR139371

Honors & awards

• 2021
  Paper selected among the most-cited on EURO Journal on Computational Optimization
• 2017
  Selected for STEM for Britain poster competition, House of Commons, London
• 2008–10
  PhD scholarship, Politecnico di Milano (1st place among 80+ applicants, MIUR)