Marco Schaerf

Marco Schaerf is a Full Professor at Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Computer, Control, and Management Engineering. He previously held roles as Associate Professor at the University of Cagliari (1992–1994) and Sapienza (1994–2000). He chairs the Engineering Information Area in Latina and serves on the editorial boards of Artificial Intelligence Journal and Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. His research focuses on artificial intelligence, nonmonotonic reasoning, computational complexity, digital libraries, and bibliometrics. Notably, he received the 1997 AI*IA Award for Best Young Researcher in AI.

Key projects include coordinating the European MAGICSTER project, FIRB 2001 ASTRO, and COFIN grants (2002/2004). He led Sapienza’s participation in Italy’s VQR research assessment program and contributed to digital library systems like the Sapienza Digital Library. His work bridges AI with cultural heritage, including AI-driven visitor experience analysis in museums.

Research interests span AI applications, knowledge representation, and computational methods in cultural heritage. He has published over 60 papers in top journals, with recent work on scientometrics, anomaly detection in infrastructure, and weakly supervised semantic segmentation. His contributions to AI theory, robotics, and bibliometric analysis underscore his interdisciplinary impact.