Luca Cagliero

Luca Cagliero is an Associate Professor (L.240) at the Department of Control and Computer Science (DAUIN) at Politecnico di Torino. He serves as Coordinator of the Interdepartmental Center SmartData@PoliTO - Big Data and Data Science Laboratory and Scientific Advisor for the Partnership Agreement with TIERRA. His research spans Data Science, Machine Learning, and Natural Language Processing, with a focus on Financial Data Mining, Generalized Pattern Mining, and Legal AI.

• Scientific Branch: IINF-05/A - Information Processing Systems (Area 0009 - Industrial and Information Engineering)
• ERC Sectors: PE6_7 (Artificial Intelligence), PE6_9 (Human Computer Interaction), PE6_11 (Machine Learning), PE6_10 (Web and Information Systems)

His scientific awards include the GiovedìScienza Award (2013), Working Capital PNI (2011), and Optime. Recognition of Merit in the Study (2008). He is a Fellow of ACM (2010-) and Effective Member of IEEE (2010-).

As an Associate Editor for journals like Expert Systems with Applications and Machine Learning with Applications, he contributes to academic publishing. His conference roles include Program Committee memberships at ACM SIGMOD 2023, IEEE ICDM 2021, and ACM CIKM 2018.

Luca supervises PhD students in areas such as AI-driven Cybersecurity, Conversational AI, and Neural Explainers, including Aurora Gensale, Giuseppe Gallipoli, and Irene Benedetto. His commercial research contracts involve projects like AI for Trend Analysis (Intesa Sanpaolo), Predictive Maintenance, and Legal Document Processing.

Key research trends include Retrieval Augmented Generation for visually-rich documents, Bias Mitigation in speech models, and Shapley Value Estimation for model explainability. His work bridges Natural Language Processing with Cybersecurity in automotive systems.