Alessio Benavoli is an internationally recognised researcher in statistics, probabilistic machine learning, and automation. He received his Master’s degree (2004) and his Ph.D. (2008) in Computer and Control Engineering from the University of Florence, Italy. From 2007 to 2008, he worked for the international company SELEX-Sistemi Integrati as system analyst. From 2008 to 2019, he was at the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IDSIA) in Lugano, Switzerland, becoming full professor in 2018. From 2019 to 2021, he was Senior Lecturer in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (ML) at the University of Limerick (Ireland).

Currently, he is Associate Professor in Statistics at the School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin. Alessio has ~115 technical peer-reviewed publications in main scientific journals and conferences in AI, machine learning (ML) and statistics, and his research bridges AI and ML, data science and engineering. He has 15 years experience in developing statistical models and AI-based systems for industry with applications to smart manufacturing, quantitative finance, green energy production forecast and defence sector.