Prof. Fabrizio Riguzzi
Full Professor
Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Ferrara
Coordinator
Neuro-Symbolic Integration Lab
Department of Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Ferrara
Via Machiavelli 30, 44121, Ferrara, Italy
Tel: +390532974037
Fax: +390532974792
E-mail: fabrizio.riguzzi@unife.it
Short Bio
Prof. Fabrizio Riguzzi is a Full Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Ferrara since December 1, 2020. Prior to this role, he was Associate Professor from 2014 to 2020 and Assistant Professor beginning in 1999 at the University of Ferrara. He earned both his Ph.D. in Electronic and Computer Engineering (1999) and his Laurea in Computer Engineering (1995) from the University of Bologna. Prof. Riguzzi is currently the Coordinator of the BSc in Computer Science and of the MSc in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Big Data. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of Intelligenza Artificiale, the journal of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, and is an active member of AI*IA, GULP, and the Association for Logic Programming. Prof. Riguzzi has published over 200 peer-reviewed papers, with research interests spanning Machine Learning, Inductive Logic Programming, and Statistical Relational Learning. His work aims to advance intelligent systems by innovatively integrating techniques from artificial intelligence, logic, and statistics.
For a complete list of publications see: Publications on University Webpage; Google Scholar, Semantic Scholar, Microsoft Academic, Loop, DBLP, ORCID, Scopus, Academia, Mendeley, Kudos, Publons, AMiner.
Research
Links to online systems: cplint, TRILL, Online AUC calculator, Belief Propagation
Authored Books
Fabrizio Riguzzi (2022, 2nd edition), Foundations of Probabilistic Logic Programming. Languages, Semantics, Inference and Learning. River Publishers, River Publishers Series in Software Engineering ISBN: ISBN 9788770227193
Fabrizio Riguzzi (2018, 1st edition), Foundations of Probabilistic Logic Programming Languages, Semantics, Inference and Learning. With a Foreword by Agostino Dovier, University of Udine, Italy. River Publishers Series in Software Engineering
Playing with Prolog videos: Map generation with cplint, Playing With Prolog Goes To The Movies (truel)
Editorial and Organizational Activities
Editorial Roles
Editor in Chief, Intelligenza Artificiale (Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence Journal)
Past Editor in Chief, Journal of Computer Science
Editorial Board Member
ACM Computer Surveys
Intelligent Data Analysis
Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Frontier in Big Data (Machine Learning and AI section)
Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction (MAKE)
Conference and Workshop Organization
Co-chair, Research Challenges Track, 36th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2020), (Rende, Italy, September 18-24, 2020)
Conference Chair, ILP 2018, 28th International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming (RAID 2018), (Ferrara, Italy, September 2-4, 2018)
Organizer, ACAI 2018 – Summer School on Statistical Relational AI (RAID 2018), (Ferrara, Italy, August 27-31, 2018)
Program Co-chair, AIxIA 2015, 14th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence, with Marco Gavanelli and Evelina Lamma (Ferrara, Italy, September 23-25, 2015)
Program Co-chair, PLP 2015, 3rd International Workshop on Probabilistic Logic Programming, with Joost Vennekens, part of ICLP 2015 (Lexington, Kentucky, USA, July 7, 2015)
Program Co-chair, ILP 2012, 22nd International Conference on Inductive Logic Programming, with Filip Zelezny, as part of ECAI, (Budapest, Hungary, August 27-29, 2012)
Program Co-chair, CILC 2009, 24th Italian Conference on Computational Logic, with Marco Gavanelli, (Ferrara, Italy, June 25-26, 2009)
Invited Talks
Invited Speaker at the 38th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP2022), (Haifa, Israel, August 1-5, 2022)
Invited Speaker at the 4th Workshop on Probabilistic Logic Programming (PLP2016), (New York, USA, July 9, 2016)
Service
Vice-head, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Ferrara
Director, Ferrara unit of CINI - Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l'Informatica
Leadership in Professional Societies
Member of the Executive Committee, Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence
Past member of the Executive Committee, Italian Association for Logic Programming
Senior Program Committee Member
AAAI2022, IJCAI2021, IJCAI-PRICAI2020, IJCAI2019
Program Committee Member
IJCAI2025, IJCLR2024, PLP2024, IJCAI2024, ECAI2024, ICLP2024, AIxIA2022, IJCLR2022, IJCAI-ECAI2022, KR2022, AAAI2020, ILP2020, and others.
Teaching
Linguaggi di programmazione e laboratorio (Programming languages and laboratory), Laurea triennale in Informatica (BSc)
Ragionamento e apprendimento probabilistici (Probabilistic reasoning and learning), Laurea magistrale in Intelligenza artificiale, data science e big data (MSc)
Tecnologie per le basi di dati (Database technologies), Laurea magistrale in Intelligenza artificiale, data science e big data (MSc)