Marco Brambilla

Marco Brambilla is a Full Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. He leads the Data Science Lab within the DEIB (Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering) and serves as director of the Computer Science and Engineering B.Sc. and M.Sc. curricula at the university.

His research focuses on AI Explainability and Transparency, Web Science, Big Data Analysis, Social Media Analytics, and Model-driven Development. He is the co-inventor of the Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML) standard by the OMG and holds 2 patents on crowdsourcing and multi-domain search.

His recent scholarly work demonstrates expertise across multiple domains of computer science, with particular emphasis on graph-based RAG architectures for energy efficiency, human-AI interaction studies, and interpretable network visualizations for CNN-based image classification. His publications show a consistent focus on practical applications of theoretical computer science concepts.

• Co-inventor of IFML standard by OMG
• 2 patents on crowdsourcing and multi-domain search
• GSE Academic Award for Excellence for correlating twitter sentiment analysis and stock price variations
• Author of multiple books including Model Driven Engineering in Practice, Web Information Retrieval, and Model-Driven UI Engineering of Web and Mobile Apps with IFML

Professor Brambilla has been involved in the creation of four startups: WebRatio, Servitly, Fluxedo, and Quantia. He teaches Enterprise ICT Architectures, Systems and Methods for Big and Unstructured Data, Web Science, Digital Innovation Lab, and Model-driven Engineering courses. His Data Science Lab at Politecnico di Milano drives research in multiple cutting-edge areas of computer science and AI.