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Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, 1994, Università degli Studi di Firenze. Thesis: Recurrent neural networks and adaptive processing of sequences.
• Laurea degree, Electronics Engineering, 1990 Università degli Studi di Firenze, Cum Laude.

Academic Positions

• Full Professor. Dec. 2010 -- present. Università degli Studi di Firenze.
• Visiting Professor. K.U. Leuven, 2010.
• Associate Professor. Nov. 1999 - 2010. Università degli Studi di Firenze.
• Associate Professor. Nov. 1998 Ott. 1999. Università degli Studi di Cagliari
• Lecturer. Jun 1998Oct. 1998. School of Information Technology and Computer Science, University of Wollongong (Australia).
• Assistant Professor. Jul. 1995 Oct. 1998. Università degli Studi di Firenze (Ingegneria).
• Contract Professor. 1993. Università degli Studi di Siena.
• Visiting Scholar 1992. Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, M.I.T.

Grants

• Main funded research projects:
  • Strumenti di Supporto allAgenzia per la Mobilità Metropolitana (tools in supports of the metropolitan mobility agency); (2008-2009) founded by the Florence Foundation for Research and Innovation.
  • BIOPTRAIN, Bioinformatics Optimization Trining, Marie Curie EST, 20052009; funded by the European Commission.
  • APrIL II, Applications of Inductive Logic Programming, FET, 20032007; funded by the European Commission.
  • BIOPATTERN, Network of Excellence, 20032008; funded by the European Commission.
  • Machine learning tools for text analysis and retrieval, (2003-2004); funded by Italian Ministry of University and Research.
  • Machine learning tools for structural and functional genomics, as National Coordinator, (2002-2003); funded by Italian Ministry of University and Research.
  • Machine learning techniques for quantitative analysis of chemichal compounds, (2001-2002); funded by Italian Ministry of University and Research.

Professional activities

• Journal Special Issues: Journal of Machine Learning Research (2008) [120] (with K. Kersting, H. Toivonen, K. Tsuda), ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (2004) [122;121] (with M. Maggini, C.L. Giles, G. Flakes), Cognitive Systems Research (2002) [123] (with M. Gori, A. Sperduti), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2001) [124] (with M. Gori, A. Sperduti), AIIA Magazine [125].
• Editorial Boards:
  • Associate Editor, Artificial Intelligence Journal, since 2009.
  • Action Editor, Machine Learning Journal, appointed for 20102012.
  • Editorial board member Source Code for Biology and Medicine, 2008present.
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 20002005.
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks 20002004.
  • Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology 20032004.
• Conference Program Committee/Referee: several, including AAAI (2008, and Co-Chair for the Special Track on AI and Bioinformatics, 2010), Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (as Area Chair, 2008 and 2009; as referee 1996-2001,2004), Int. Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (as senior PC member, 2009), International Conference on Data Mining (as Vice-Chair, 2003), International Conference on Machine Learning (2004-2006, 2008), IEEE Int. Conference on Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (2003), European Conference on Machine Learning (2006-2008), IEEE Computer Society Conference on Bioinformatics (2003), European Conference on Evolutionary Computation Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics (2008).
• Organization of scientific events:
  • Languages for Data Mining and Machine Learning (LML 2013), workshop at ECML/PKDD 2013, Co-organizer.
    
  • Second Italian Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM.it 2013), at AI*IA 2013, Torino, December 2013, Co-organizer.
  • 7th Conf. on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2012), Program co-chair
  • First Italian Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM.it 2012), at AI*IA 2012, Roma. September 2012, Co-organizer
  • 20th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming 2010, Program co-chair
  • AAAI 2010 Special Track on Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics, co-chair
  • 5th International Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs, Università degli Studi di Firenze, August 1-3, 2007 (Program Co-Chair, with K. Kersting, K. Tsuda) [3].
  • Special Session Machine Learning in Bioinformatics, 6th Int. Conf. on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems & Allied Technologies (September 2002).
  • Co-director, NATO Advanced Studies Institute Artificial Intelligence and Heuristic Methods for Bioinformatics, San Miniato, 111 Ottobre 2001 (A. Apostolico, P. Baldi, S. Brunak, R. Casadio, A. Covacci, D. Geiger, D. Haussler, N. Kolchanov, S. Muggleton, B. Rost, R. Serra, R. Shamir) [4].
  • Workshop Foundations of connectionist-symbolic integration: representation, paradigms, and algorithms, European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2000.
  • Workshop Learning dynamical data structures: From sequences to graphs, at Neural Information Processing Systems, Denver (CO), December 1997
• Scientific Publications: over 100.
• Invided book chapters: over 10.
• Authored books: 1 [1]. Edited books: 2 [2; 4].
• Invited talks and keynote speaker. Several, including the Workshop on Random Growing, and Infinite Networks (Blaubeuren, Jan 2008), 17th Annual International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP07), Freiburg, Leuven & Friends, Workshop on Advances in Machine Learning (Montreal), 2003, Imperial College London, University of California, Irvine, University of Ulm, University College London, University College Dublin.
• Reviewer for about 25 journals, including Machine Learning, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Bioinformatics, BMC Bioinformatics, Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Journal of Human Evolution.
• Reviewer for several scientific funding bodies including European Commission (STREP evaluator), European Science Foundation, European Research Council, Australian Research Council, Austrian Science Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (Belgium), Science Foundation Ireland, Research Grants Council Hong Kong, Italian Governments Department of Research and Education (MIUR).
• Teachers in tutorials and summer schools: several, including European Science Foundation Workshops, SOCRATES Intensive Programmes, NATO ASI, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), International School on Neural Networks.
• Present Ph.D. Students: Matteo Bertini, Marco Lippi, Marc Vincent.
• Past Ph.D. Students: Alessio Ceroni (Research Assistant, Imperial College London), Fabrizio Costa (Research assistant, K.U. Leuven), Sauro Menchetti, Andrea Passerini (Associate Professor, University of Trento), Alessandro Vullo (Research assistant, University College Dublin).
• Awarded E. Caianiello prize (1996, for the Ph.D. Thesis)

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Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, 1994, Università degli Studi di Firenze. Thesis: Recurrent neural networks and adaptive processing of sequences.
• Laurea degree, Electronics Engineering, 1990 Università degli Studi di Firenze, Cum Laude.

Academic Positions

• Full Professor. Dec. 2010 -- present. Università degli Studi di Firenze.
• Visiting Professor. K.U. Leuven, 2010.
• Associate Professor. Nov. 1999 - 2010. Università degli Studi di Firenze.
• Associate Professor. Nov. 1998 Ott. 1999. Università degli Studi di Cagliari
• Lecturer. Jun 1998Oct. 1998. School of Information Technology and Computer Science, University of Wollongong (Australia).
• Assistant Professor. Jul. 1995 Oct. 1998. Università degli Studi di Firenze (Ingegneria).
• Contract Professor. 1993. Università degli Studi di Siena.
• Visiting Scholar 1992. Dept. of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, M.I.T.

Grants

• Main funded research projects:
  • Strumenti di Supporto allAgenzia per la Mobilità Metropolitana (tools in supports of the metropolitan mobility agency); (2008-2009) founded by the Florence Foundation for Research and Innovation.
  • BIOPTRAIN, Bioinformatics Optimization Trining, Marie Curie EST, 20052009; funded by the European Commission.
  • APrIL II, Applications of Inductive Logic Programming, FET, 20032007; funded by the European Commission.
  • BIOPATTERN, Network of Excellence, 20032008; funded by the European Commission.
  • Machine learning tools for text analysis and retrieval, (2003-2004); funded by Italian Ministry of University and Research.
  • Machine learning tools for structural and functional genomics, as National Coordinator, (2002-2003); funded by Italian Ministry of University and Research.
  • Machine learning techniques for quantitative analysis of chemichal compounds, (2001-2002); funded by Italian Ministry of University and Research.

Professional activities

• Journal Special Issues: Journal of Machine Learning Research (2008) [120] (with K. Kersting, H. Toivonen, K. Tsuda), ACM Transactions on Internet Technology (2004) [122;121] (with M. Maggini, C.L. Giles, G. Flakes), Cognitive Systems Research (2002) [123] (with M. Gori, A. Sperduti), IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering (2001) [124] (with M. Gori, A. Sperduti), AIIA Magazine [125].
• Editorial Boards:
  • Associate Editor, Artificial Intelligence Journal, since 2009.
  • Action Editor, Machine Learning Journal, appointed for 20102012.
  • Editorial board member Source Code for Biology and Medicine, 2008present.
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering 20002005.
  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks 20002004.
  • Associate Editor, ACM Transactions on Internet Technology 20032004.
• Conference Program Committee/Referee: several, including AAAI (2008, and Co-Chair for the Special Track on AI and Bioinformatics, 2010), Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (as Area Chair, 2008 and 2009; as referee 1996-2001,2004), Int. Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (as senior PC member, 2009), International Conference on Data Mining (as Vice-Chair, 2003), International Conference on Machine Learning (2004-2006, 2008), IEEE Int. Conference on Intelligent Systems in Molecular Biology (2003), European Conference on Machine Learning (2006-2008), IEEE Computer Society Conference on Bioinformatics (2003), European Conference on Evolutionary Computation Machine Learning and Data Mining in Bioinformatics (2008).
• Organization of scientific events:
  • Languages for Data Mining and Machine Learning (LML 2013), workshop at ECML/PKDD 2013, Co-organizer.
    
  • Second Italian Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM.it 2013), at AI*IA 2013, Torino, December 2013, Co-organizer.
  • 7th Conf. on Prestigious Applications of Intelligent Systems (PAIS 2012), Program co-chair
  • First Italian Workshop on Machine Learning and Data Mining (MLDM.it 2012), at AI*IA 2012, Roma. September 2012, Co-organizer
  • 20th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming 2010, Program co-chair
  • AAAI 2010 Special Track on Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics, co-chair
  • 5th International Workshop on Mining and Learning with Graphs, Università degli Studi di Firenze, August 1-3, 2007 (Program Co-Chair, with K. Kersting, K. Tsuda) [3].
  • Special Session Machine Learning in Bioinformatics, 6th Int. Conf. on Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems & Allied Technologies (September 2002).
  • Co-director, NATO Advanced Studies Institute Artificial Intelligence and Heuristic Methods for Bioinformatics, San Miniato, 111 Ottobre 2001 (A. Apostolico, P. Baldi, S. Brunak, R. Casadio, A. Covacci, D. Geiger, D. Haussler, N. Kolchanov, S. Muggleton, B. Rost, R. Serra, R. Shamir) [4].
  • Workshop Foundations of connectionist-symbolic integration: representation, paradigms, and algorithms, European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), 2000.
  • Workshop Learning dynamical data structures: From sequences to graphs, at Neural Information Processing Systems, Denver (CO), December 1997
• Scientific Publications: over 100.
• Invided book chapters: over 10.
• Authored books: 1 [1]. Edited books: 2 [2; 4].
• Invited talks and keynote speaker. Several, including the Workshop on Random Growing, and Infinite Networks (Blaubeuren, Jan 2008), 17th Annual International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (ILP07), Freiburg, Leuven & Friends, Workshop on Advances in Machine Learning (Montreal), 2003, Imperial College London, University of California, Irvine, University of Ulm, University College London, University College Dublin.
• Reviewer for about 25 journals, including Machine Learning, Journal of Machine Learning Research, Bioinformatics, BMC Bioinformatics, Journal of Biological Inorganic Chemistry, Molecular Biology and Evolution, Journal of Human Evolution.
• Reviewer for several scientific funding bodies including European Commission (STREP evaluator), European Science Foundation, European Research Council, Australian Research Council, Austrian Science Fund, Research Foundation - Flanders (Belgium), Science Foundation Ireland, Research Grants Council Hong Kong, Italian Governments Department of Research and Education (MIUR).
• Teachers in tutorials and summer schools: several, including European Science Foundation Workshops, SOCRATES Intensive Programmes, NATO ASI, International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), International School on Neural Networks.
• Present Ph.D. Students: Matteo Bertini, Marco Lippi, Marc Vincent.
• Past Ph.D. Students: Alessio Ceroni (Research Assistant, Imperial College London), Fabrizio Costa (Research assistant, K.U. Leuven), Sauro Menchetti, Andrea Passerini (Associate Professor, University of Trento), Alessandro Vullo (Research assistant, University College Dublin).
• Awarded E. Caianiello prize (1996, for the Ph.D. Thesis)