Paolo Traverso
Paolo Traverso is the Director of Strategic Planning at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK), a research center with over 600 people, internationally recognized for its research and innovation in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Microsystems.
Following experience in private companies in Milan, Chicago, and London, and a period at the University of Edinburgh in the Department of Artificial Intelligence, he served as Director of the Information and Communication Technology Research Center at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK) from 2007 to 2020, a center with over 400 people, including researchers, developers, and Ph.D. students.
He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence; Leader of the “Integrative AI” Cluster (Spoke) of the National Project “Future Artificial Intelligence Research”; and Coordinator of the European Project “Artificial Intelligence for Automated Planning – AIPlan4EU.” He has served on the Steering Committee of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA) and the National Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems (CINI, National Interuniversity Consortium for Informatics).
In 2005, he was named EurAi/ECCAI fellow “for his pioneering work in artificial intelligence and outstanding service to the AI community.”
Paolo Traverso has led numerous Artificial Intelligence projects for Digital Industry, Health and Well-being, and Public Administration.
He has published over one hundred scientific articles in international journals and conference proceedings and is also a co-author of three textbooks on Automated Planning and Artificial Intelligence:
- Malik Ghallab, Dana Nau, and Paolo Traverso. Automated Planning: Theory and Practice. Morgan Kaufmann/Elsevier, 2004. Chinese translation by Yunfei Jiang at Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, China
- M. Ghallab, D. Nau, and P. Traverso. Automated Planning and Acting. Cambridge University Press, 2016.
- M. Ghallab, D. Nau, and P. Traverso. Acting, Planning, and Learning. To be published by Cambridge University Press, 2025
Curriculum Vitae | Publication List
INTERESTS
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE | AUTOMATED PLANNING | SOFTWARE SERVICES | AUTOMATED VERIFICATION AND SYNTHESIS OF SOFTWARE SYSTEMS
CONTACTS
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Spotlight's articles
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November 8, 2024AI at the Edge and Sensors: technological opportunities for sustainable Artificial IntelligenceA discussion among researchers and experts to explore challenges and opportunities of the integration between state-of-the-art microelectronic devices and AI algorithms. -
June 12, 2024OPEN Trento x3What is meant by open artificial intelligence? Openness in AI not only has to do with the availability of software, but also with key issues such as transparency, reusability and sustainability of systems, while respecting essential ethical constraints imposed by standards. -
May 24, 2024Artificial intelligence: the strategies of Big TechThis afternoon, Palazzo Geremia hosted the panel organized as part of the Trento Festival of Economics with the participation of Paolo Traverso -
July 5, 2023Paolo Traverso’s interview with Nello CristianiniA novel and original video dialogue on Artificial Intelligence and its disruptive applications -
May 27, 2023“ChatGPT, when machines replace humans in processing thoughts”A Palazzo Geremia la tavola rotonda organizzata nell’ambito del Festival dell’Economia di Trento -
May 6, 2023Wired Next Fest Trentino: the empathy of algorithmsTonight the talk by Paolo Traverso and Paolo Benanti in Piazza Malfatti at Rovereto -
March 10, 2023The newly established “Fair” foundation will manage 114 million from the PNRR on artificial intelligence.FBK is leading the spoke dedicated to integrative AI. -
March 17, 2022Law and power in the era of Artificial IntelligenceRisks and benefits of the pervasive use of Artificial Intelligence technologies, especially in the medical field. -
December 30, 2020A new organization for the Bruno Kessler FoundationStarting from January 1, 2021, the statute of FBK has changed: there are now 6 new Research Centres and a Management dedicated to Marketing and business development will be soon inaugurated. -
November 24, 2020FBK to coordinate the AIPLAN4EU project: artificial intelligence for European small and medium-sized enterprisesWith a total funding of 5 million euros, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, in partnership with 15 international partners, will bring "automated planning" to the AI4EU platform -
June 12, 2020Law, medicine and new technologies: artificial intelligence supporting human beings.Risks and benefits of using artificial intelligence in medicine: the perspectives of law and technology. -
December 16, 2019Artificial intelligence, facts and dream, overcoming fearsPaolo Traverso a speaker at TEDxTrento 2019 -
October 11, 2019AGRIOT: artificial intelligence applied to agricultureOn SKY TG 24, within the NOW show, the story on the FBK project aimed at water saving in agriculture -
July 10, 2019Human + machine, rethinking workThe Italian edition of the book written by Paul Daugherty and James Wilson, and published by Guerini Next is out. The preface is signed by Paolo Traverso, FBK-ICT director -
June 18, 2019The narrow path of artificial intelligenceThe Italian brains behind the world of robots. When it comes to the spread of artificial intelligence in businesses and in the public administration, our country is lagging. But it shines with Germany in research worldwide. This is the snapshot after the study by Ahk Italia and Deloitte
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January 7, 2019FBK and Ferrara together for the development of Smart CitiesSigned a memorandum of understanding with the Municipality of Ferrara and the Provincial Development Agency Sipro Spa -
June 27, 2018Will social media managers be replaced by Artificial Intelligence?For some time now, we have been hearing that Artificial Intelligence will replace most human jobs. However, talking to a hi-tech marketing guru like Guy Kawasaki (former Apple chief evangelist), we had the impression that this was not necessarily the case -
March 26, 2018MAIA: Artificial Intelligence is not only for robotsMAIA stands for Advanced Model of Artificial Intelligence and is the robot from which FBK initiated some of the main strands of its research in the field: speech recognition, digital visualization, natural language analysis and planning -
August 9, 2017HEALTH AND IT IN THE SERVICE OF CITIZENSFBK research will be aired on RAI3 on Sunday, August 13, in the "VivinTrentino" show -
May 26, 2017Unequal health. FBK at the Festival of Economics 2017Paolo Traverso, director of Fondazione Bruno Kessler’s ICT Center, will introduce the topic of the round table "Heathcare and new technologies" -
March 22, 2017Is Artificial Intelligence stealing our jobs? FBK tries to answer the big question at G20Paolo Traverso, ICT Center Director was the co-chair of the panel “Digitising Manufacturing” dealing with AI application in future industries. Outcomes of the panel will be officially transmitted to G20 ministers and discussed during the G20 Summit in Berlin April 6-7th '17.