Dr. Carlo Metta is a researcher at the National Research Council in Italy. He completed his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in Mathematics from the University of Pisa and then went on to earn a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Florence. His primary research focuses are on machine learning, deep learning, and reinforcement learning.

Andrea Beretta is a PostDoc researcher in his first year at CNR. He is currently working on the XAI European Project, and his role concerns both research and project management activities. His background is in social psychology with a special interest in HCI. He has worked with user studies since his master’s thesis in 2012. He earned his PhD in Cognitive Science at the University of Trento. In his research, he is an expert in designing interviews, surveys, and experiments to study human behavior during the interaction with algorithms and AI applications, in the particular case in which these intelligent systems support human decision making. His research focus is on user studies for explainable machine learning techniques and their applications in different fields.

Dr. Roberto Pellungrini is a researcher at Scuola Normale Superiore. He obtained his Master's Degree in Computer Science for Economy and Business from the University of Pisa in 2016 and his PhD in Computer Science from the same university in 2020. His research interests include Data Science, Machine Learning, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, Statistical Data Analysis, Data Analysis, Data Visualization, Predictive Modeling, and Feature Selection.

Dr. Salvatore Rinzivillo graduated in Computer Science at the University of Catania, Italy, in 2001 and was awarded a PhD in Computer Science at the University of Pisa, Italy, in 2007. Since 2009, he has been a researcher at CNR-ISTI. His current main research interest is Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, especially clustering on spatio-temporal data.

Fosca Giannotti is a Full Professor at Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy. She received her Master’s Degree in Computer Science at the University of Pisa in 1982. She is a pioneering scientist in mobility data mining, social network analysis and privacy-preserving data mining. She leads the Pisa KDD Lab—Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining Laboratory, a joint research initiative of the University of Pisa and ISTI-CNR. Her research focus is on social mining from big data: smart cities, human dynamics, social and economic networks, ethics and trust, and diffusion of innovations. She is the former coordinator of SoBigData.