Alessandro Sperduti

Alessandro Sperduti, director of the Center for Augmented Intelligence, is a full professor at the “Tullio Levi-Civita” Department of Mathematics at the University of Padua. He also serves as director of the Human Inspired Technology Research Interdepartmental Center at the same university.  His research interests lie in Machine Learning, and mainly Neural Networks (Deep Learning), Kernel Methods, and Process Mining. Prof. Sperduti has been a member of many program committees of international conferences (such as NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, IJCAI, ECAI, ECML, SIGIR,…), program chair of a number of IEEE symposia in Deep Learning, general chair of ICPM 2020 and WCCI 2022, and guest editor of special issues of international scientific journals. He serves or has served on the editorial board of international scientific journals, such as the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, Neural Networks Journal, the European Journal on Artificial Intelligence, IEEE Intelligent Systems Magazine.
He has been a member of the European Neural Networks Society Executive Committee. He is an IEEE senior member and has served as chair of the IEEE CIS DMTC and the IEEE CIS NNTC. He received the “MARCO SOMALVICO” award from the Italian Artificial Intelligence Association AI*IA in 2000 and was designated 2022 Italian Knowledge Leader by ENIT. He has been an invited speaker in the international conferences ICANN 2001, WSOM 2007, CIDM 2013, WSOM 2019, ICANN 2021. He is a member of the Regional Scientific Technical Committee of Veneto Sviluppo. Prof. Sperduti is the author of more than 300 scientific publications.