Michela Milano ‘s research activity concerns Artificial Intelligence with particular interest in decision support systems in which hybrid methods of reasoning, learning and optimization coexist for the construction of descriptive, predictive and prescriptive models. In this area Michela Milano has achieved international visibility and has collaborations with several research, academic and industrial groups.
Michela Milano is a member of the Academy of Sciences and the Academy of Engineering and Technology. She was vice president of EurAI (European Association of Artificial Intelligence) and Executive Councilor of AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence). She is part of the Italian delegation in the Program Committee for Cluster 4 of Horizon Europe of the European Commission. She was a member of the Artificial Intelligence Expert Group appointed by the Government for the definition of a national strategy in 2019 and 2022 and of the working group for the definition of the 2021-2027 National Research Plan. She was a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Constraint Programming and of the Board of Directors of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence AI*IA.
She is Editor in Chief of ACM Computing Surveys, was Area Editor of INFORMS Journal on Computing in the area of Logic, Constraint and Optimization, and was Editor in Chief of the journal Constraints. She has authored more than 180 papers in international journals and conferences.
She has coordinated and participated in numerous Italian and European research projects raising research funds for more than 18 million euros, and is in charge of research collaborations with companies for more than 650,000 euros.
She was awarded the Google Focused Grant Program on Mathematical Optimization and Combinatorial Optimization in Europe in 2012 and the Google Faculty Research Award in 2016 on integration of deep neural networks in combinatorial models.