Autilia Vitiello was born in Nocera Inferiore (Salerno), Italy, on December 12th, 1984.
She took the master degree cum laude in Computer Science at the University of Salerno (Italy) in July 2009, defending a thesis entitled Time Sensitive Fuzzy Agents: formal model and implementation.
From November 2009 to October 2012 she attended Ph.D. Program at Department of Computer Science of the University of Salerno.
From September to December 2012, she was a visiting student at the School of Industrial Engineering, Information Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands.
She got Ph.D. in Computer Science on April 15th, 2013, defending a thesis titled Memetic Algorithms for Ontology Alignment.
From July 2013, she is research fellow at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Salerno. Currently, she is working on the project Smart Methods for Big Data.
She is also Member of the IEEE CIS Standards Committee and Chair of the Task Force named Datasets for Computational Intelligence. She is part of the IEEE Standard Association 1855 Working Group for Fuzzy Markup Language Standardization where she also serves as Secretary.
Her main research area is Computational Intelligence, and in particular, Fuzzy Logic and Evolutionary Algorithms. More in detail, she addresses topics such as memetic algorithms, fuzzy sets and fuzzy controllers, type-2 fuzzy controllers, fuzzy cognitive maps, multi-objective optimization. She also has been working on knowledge representation theories, and, in particular, on ontologies and semantic interoperability problem. Her recent interests include the integration between Computational Intelligence and Computer Vision to address Bloodstain Pattern Analysis and the integration between Evolutionary Algorithms and Machine Learning techniques to tackle Big Data Challenges.