Nicola Gatti

Nicola Gatti is an Associate Professor in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano. He serves as Co-director of the Observatory Artificial Intelligence of Politecnico di Milano and holds board positions at the Italian National Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems (CINI AIIS) and the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA).

His research spans the intersection of Computer Science, Microeconomics, Optimization, and Machine Learning, with specific focus on Algorithmic Game Theory, Mechanism Design, and Online Learning. He has made significant contributions to areas including negotiation, security games, equilibrium computation, sponsored search auctions, online advertising, election manipulation, and regret minimization in economic problems.

Gatti's recent publications demonstrate strong trends in applying game-theoretic and learning approaches to practical problems in advertising, contract design, and constrained decision making. His work frequently appears in top AI venues including AAAI, AAMAS, NeurIPS, and ICML, reflecting his standing as one of the most prolific AI researchers in Italy.

He has received notable recognition including being awarded as the best Italian young researcher on Artificial Intelligence in 2011 by AIxIA. His research is supported through competitive projects like PRIN2017 Algadimar and industrial collaborations with companies including lastminute.com, DoveVivo, MMM group, AdsHotel, Analisi e Valore, and the Italian Navy.

In addition to his research, Gatti is actively involved in education, teaching courses on Systems Informatics, Economic and Computation, Data Intelligence Application, and specialized industry courses on Online Machine Learning and Algorithmic Game Theory for companies including lastminute.com, Niuma, and Ferrari GES Scuderia F1. Since 2018, he has chaired the Honours Programme in Scientific Research in Information Technology at Politecnico di Milano.