Marco Benedetti

Marco (home, linkedIn, scholar) is the head of the “Applied Research Team” (ART) of the Bank of Italy, which he contributed to establish in 2014.

In this role, he coordinates and oversees (and oftentimes takes part in) all the projects by the Bank involving advanced ICT technologies. Topics range from Machine Learning to Automated Reasoning to Agent-Based Simulations to Cryptoasset technologies.

He doubles as a public speaker for the Bank when disseminating knowledge on complex high-tech matters of interest to central banks.

He has been working at the Bank since 2008: Before ART, he occupied himself with a host of different ICT things: tools for remote collaboration and communication, strong authentication for services exposed to the Internet, online reputation of the Bank, cloud computing, wiki-like systems to share knowledge, policies for the adoption of open-source code, architectures for intranets, models for the representation of knowledge in content management DBs, Enterprise Architecture vision, principles, reference architectures, and more.

Before the Bank of Italy, he worked as a post-doc at the Institute for Scientific and Technological Research (IRST) from 2002 to 2005, within the Bruno Kessler Foundation (formerly “Istituto Trentino di Cultura”). Then, he moved to France and worked at the Université d’Orléans (2006-2007) as a research associate. His research at the time focused on automated deduction, planning, model checking, and formal verification.

Over the years, he (co)authored a number of peer-reviewed publications and a few pieces of scientific software, such as sKizzo (a QBF reasoner), QeCode (a constraint solver), and Black-it (an ABM calibrator).

Marco graduated in Computer Engineering with full marks and honors in 1998, and got a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence (2001) – both of which from La Sapienza in Rome. His master thesis was awarded the “Best Italian AI Thesis” price for the year 1998 by… AIxIA!