Federico Cabitza
Federico Cabitza is a professor at the University of Milan Bicocca, where he teaches human–computer interaction and decision support. He leads the Laboratory of Uncertainty Models, Decisions, and Interactions in the Department of Computer Science and coordinates the local unit of the national laboratory Informatica e Società (Computer Science and Society). Since 2016, he has collaborated with several hospitals, including the IRCCS Galeazzi-Sant’Ambrogio Hospital in Milan, with which he holds a formal affiliation. After serving as an associate editor of the International Journal of Medical Informatics, he is currently Section Editor-in-Chief of the Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction Journal and a member of several editorial boards, including that of Mondo Digitale, the official journal of AICA. His research focuses on the design and evaluation of artificial intelligence systems to support decision-making processes, particularly in healthcare. To date, he has authored more than 300 research publications in international conference proceedings, books, and scientific journals, and has been consistently ranked among the top 2% of researchers worldwide by citation impact in the Stanford/Elsevier ranking since 2020. He is also co-author, with Luciano Floridi, of the book “Intelligenza Artificiale: L’uso delle nuove macchine” (Artificial Intelligence: The Use of New Machines), published by Bompiani (2021).
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February 4, 2026AI becoming “normal”: Federico Cabitza’s vision for the future of digital healthAs he begins his term as head of the Center for Digital Health and Wellbeing (DHWB), Federico Cabitza outlines a clear mission: to take artificial intelligence out of the lab and turn it into an established, everyday practice.