Pietro Ducange received the M.Sc. degree in Computer Engineering and the Ph.D. degree in Information Engineering from the University of Pisa in 2005 and 2009, respectively. Currently, he is an associate professor of Information Systems and Technologies at the University of Pisa, Italy. He teaches Large Scale and Multi Structured Databases, Intelligent Systems and Big Data Management.
He is a senior member of the AI-R&D research Group at the Department of Information Engineering. Moreover, he is a member of the Big Data, Cloud Computing and Cybersecurity Lab and of the Trustworthy and Embodied Intelligence Lab of the same department. His main research interests include explainable artificial intelligence, big data mining, social sensing and sentiment analysis. He has been involved in several R&D projects in which data mining and computation intelligence algorithms have been successfully employed. He has co-authored over 100 papers in international journals and conference proceedings. He organized several workshops, special sessions, tutorials and special issues on Trustworthy AI and its application in engineering fields.