Davide Bacciu

Davide Bacciu is Associate Professor at the Computer Science Department, University of Pisa.

Previously, he was a research associate at the Advanced Robotics Technology and System Laboratory (ARTS Lab), Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna Pisa (2004-2005), and at the Neural Computation Research Group, LJMU (2007-2008). In 2012 he visited the Cognitive Robotic Systems laboratory, Orebro Universitet.

His current research interests include machine learning for structured data, Bayesian learning, deep learning and its intersection with generative approaches, reservoir computing, distributed and embedded learning systems. Since 2005, he has been involved as leading researcher or principal investigator in a number of national, international and industrial research projects. He has received the 2009 E.R. Caianiello Award for the best Italian Ph.D. thesis on neural networks and was nominated for the AI*IA Marco Cadoli Ph.D. award in 2009. He is the coordinator of the H2020 TEACHING project as well as of Italian national and industrial projects.

Davide serves as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems and as an Academic Editor for PLOS ONE. He is an IEEE Senior Member and a member of the IEEE CIS Neural Network Technical Committee. He is the President and a member of the Executive Committee of the IMT Lucca Alumni and Students association.

He has been serving in the AIxIA board since 2015, from 2017 to 2021 he held the position of Secretary of the association and from 2022 he is Vice President.