I am a research fellow at Department of Computer Science. Currently, I am involved in the project "Smart Methods for Big Data" where I am studying the integration between evolutionary algorithms and machine learning techniques to tackle Big-Data challenges. Moreover, I collaborate with the Department of Physics "Ettore Pancini", where I am involved in different research activities based on Computational Intelligence methodologies.

I am also Member of the IEEE CIS Standards Committee and Chair of the Task Force named Datasets for Computational Intelligence.

I am part of the IEEE Standard Association 1855 Working Group for Fuzzy Markup Language Standardization where I also serve as Secretary.