Maurizio Gabbrielli is professor of Computer Science at the University of Bologna since 2001 and member of the INRIA project team FOCUS. He has been: Director of the European EIT Digital Doctoral School from January 2015 to December 2016; member of the advisory board of TPLP, member of the Executive Committee of the Association for Logic Programming; president of the Italian association for Logic Programming (GULP); chair of the Steering Committee of the ACM conference PPDP; member of the board of the European association for Programming Languages and Systems; PC member and chair of international conferences; Director of the Ph.D. program in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bologna. He is author of more than 100 scientific publications and his main research interest are: artificial intelligence, in particular portfolio systems and recommender systems; constraint programming; micro services and Service Oriented Computing; languages for IoT.

He received his Ph.d. in Computer Science in 1992 from the Univ. of Pisa. In 1993-95 he was employed at CWI (Amsterdam), from 1995 to 1998 he was assistant professor at the University of Pisa and from 1998 to 2001 he was associate professor at the University of Udine. He is author of more than 100 scientific publications His mail research interest are artificial intelligence, in particular portfolio systems and recommender systems; constraint programming; micro services and Service Oriented Computing; languages for IoT.

He has participated to several European projects and has been: member of the Executive Committee of the Association for Logic Programming; president of the Italian association for Logic Programming (GULP); chair of the Steering Committee of the ACM conference PPDP; member of the board of the European association for Programming Languages and Systems; PC member and chair of international conferences; director of the Ph.D. program in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Bologna..