Currently Deputy Rector of Artificial Intelligence, Founding Director of the Research Center “AI4Society” and Professor of Computer Science at Luiss University in Rome, Italy. After a PhD in Computer Science from Columbia University, Prof. Italiano was a Research Staff Member at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights (NY, USA). He then went back to Italy as a Full Professor, and has been Visiting Professor in several international universities, including Columbia University (NY, USA), Université Paris-Sud (Francia), Max–Planck–Institut fur Informatik, Saarbrücken (Germania), Hong Kong University of Science & Technology. In 2016 he was nominated Fellow of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. He has been doing research on algorithms, consulting with big international companies and co-founded several tech startups.