Aldo Gangemi

Aldo Gangemi is a Full Professor at the University of Bologna and Director of the Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies (ISTC) at the Italian National Research Council (CNR). He co-founded the Semantic Technology Lab (STLab) in 2008 and currently coordinates the Horizon 2020 SPICE project. His academic career spans interdisciplinary research at the intersection of semantic technologies, cognitive science, and data science.

• Affiliations: University of Bologna, CNR-ISTC, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca (Board of Directors)

Research Interests: Semantic Technologies integrating Knowledge Engineering, Web Science, Cognitive Science, and NLP. Applications span Cultural Heritage, Robotics, Medicine, Law, eGovernment, Agriculture, and Business. His theoretical focus includes hybrid symbolic/sub-symbolic methods for knowledge pattern representation and discovery across data, ontologies, language, and cognition.

Scientific Leadership: He has served as Editor-in-Chief or editorial board member for journals like Semantic Web and Web Semantics, chaired major conferences (EKAW2008, WWW2015, ESWC2018/9), and coordinated 8 EU projects.