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prof. Vincenzo Loia

Vincenzo Loia graduated in 1985 with a degree in Computer Science from the University of Salerno and in 1989 with a PhD in Computer Science from the Université Paris 6 - France.

He currently serves as full professor of Computer Science at the University of Salerno, where he was a researcher from 1989 to 2000 and an associate professor from 2000 to 2004.

He is Editor-in-Chief of the international journal ‘Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing’ and Co-Editor-in-Chief of the international scientific journal ‘Soft Computing’, both from Springer-Verlag. He is also Associate Editor of the journals IEEE Transaction Industrial Informatics, and IEEE Transaction Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems.

He has held numerous roles within the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, including:

  • Chair of Emergent Technologies Technical Committee (ETTC)
  • Chair of Task Force ‘Intelligent Agents’
  • Chair of Task Force ‘Ambient Intelligence’
  • Chair of IEEE CIS Italian Chapter
  • Vice-Chair IEEE Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee

He has produced more than 200 scientific papers published in proceedings of international conferences, book chapters and journals.

Over the past ten years, he has served as a Committee Member at more than 40 IEEE Society conferences. He has been keynote speaker at various international conferences held in Europe, USA, Taiwan, China.

He has also served as Reviewer in several Committees of the Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research (JTI ARTEMIS, Grandi Progetti Strategici -GPS, Reviewer art. 12 under DM 593/2000, Projects art. 9/6 Law 297/1999, EU FP7 Committees, Reviewer of research projects for the People's Republic of China Hong-Kong region).

His research interests include agent and multi-agent systems, systems for approximate reasoning, systems for automatic diagnosis, fuzzy logic, web intelligence, ambient intelligence, knowledge discovery systems, home automation systems, smart grid, value-added information architectures and services.

Since November 2019, he has been Rector of the University of Salerno.