Fausto Giunchiglia

Fausto Giunchiglia is a Full Professor in the Faculty of Science at the University of Trento, Italy, where he has served since 1999. Previously, he was an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economics, University of Trento (1992-1999), and held positions at Stanford University, University of Genoa, ITC-IRST, and University of Edinburgh. He is a Fellow of EurAI, AAIA, and ECCAI, and a member of the Academia Europaea.

Education:

• PhD in Computer Engineering, University of Genoa, Faculty of Engineering (1987)
• Master in Computer Science, University of Genoa, Faculty of Engineering (1983)
• Laurea (Master) in Electronic Engineering (specialization in Computer Engineering), University of Genoa, Faculty of Engineering (1981)

Professor Giunchiglia's research spans Artificial Intelligence with a focus on social computing, logics and formal methods, knowledge management and representation, agent-oriented software engineering, and semantics. His current research explores computational models of the mind and how the known is grounded in the unknown. He has made significant contributions to both theoretical foundations and practical applications of AI, with particular emphasis on enabling worldwide diversity-aware data-driven social innovation.

Throughout his career, Giunchiglia has received numerous honors including being named an Honorary Professor at Jilin University, winning the IBM Shared University Research Grant, and receiving multiple innovation awards for EU-funded projects including WeNet, WhiteRabbit, InteropEHRate, and Smart Society.

Professional Leadership:

• Member of the Panel "Computer Science and Informatics" of the European Research Council (ERC)
• Chair of the International Advisory board of SICSA (Scottish Informatics and Computer Science Alliance)
• Coordinator of the task-force for the Italian National Research Program in ICT
• Scientific Coordinator of the Italian Platform for the Future Internet
• Co-founder and first Head of the Department of Computer Science at University of Trento
• Vice-rector of the University of Trento in charge of ICT and innovation

Giunchiglia has advised over 50 PhD and Master's students throughout his career and has been deeply involved in academic leadership, serving as President of IJCAI, President of KR, Inc., and on editorial boards of numerous prestigious journals including the Journal of Data Semantics and Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research. He leads the Knowdive research group and the DataScientia social innovation initiative at the University of Trento.