Francesco Marcelloni

FRANCESCO MARCELLONI received the Laurea degree in Electronics Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Pisa in 1991 and 1996, respectively. He is currently a full professor at the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Pisa. He is the director of the Knowledge Hub on AI of the European Alliance Circle U.. Further, he is the founder and coordinator of the IT2PAO laboratory, jointly managed by the University of Pisa and the LogObject AG (Switzerland) company. Finally, he is the coordinator of the multi-disciplinary “Good AI Lab” of the University of Pisa. He has been a member of the Academic Senate of the University of Pisa from 2012 to 2016 and Vice-Rector for International Cooperation and Relations of the University of Pisa from 2016 to 2022. During this period, among the various initiatives, he has promoted and coordinated the opening of the branch of the University of Pisa at Tashkent (Uzbekistan) and the membership of the University of Pisa to the European Alliance Circle U.. Further, he has activated the Visiting Fellow program and re-designed the Foundation Course program.

His main research interests include federated learning, explainable AI, data mining for big data, multi-objective evolutionary algorithms, genetic fuzzy systems, fuzzy clustering algorithms, pattern recognition, signal analysis, mobile information systems, and data compression and aggregation in wireless sensor networks. He has co-edited four volumes, four journal special issues, and is (co-)author of a book and of more than 280 papers in international journals, books and conference proceedings. Recently, he has received the 2021 IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper award and the 2022 IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine Outstanding Paper award. He is listed among the top 2% scientists in the world in a global list released by the prestigious Stanford University.
He has been TPC co-chair, general co-chair and tutorial chair of some international conferences and has held invited talks in a number of events. Currently, he serves as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems (IEEE), Information Sciences (Elsevier) and Evolving Systems (Springer), and is on the editorial board of a number of other international journals. He has coordinated various research projects funded by both public and private entities.