Andrea Asperti is full professor of Machine Learning and Deep Learning at the University of Bologna. He currently represents the University of Bologna for the area of Data Science and Artificial Intelligence within the UnaEuropa Alliance. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pisa in 1989. Throughout his career, he has held various positions, including working at the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris and at INRIA-Rocquencourt. From 2005 to 2007, he held the position of Director of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bologna. From 2000 to 2007, he was a member of the Advisory Committee of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). He is authors of hundreds of publications in international peer reviewed journals and conferences; and a few books. Over time, he has coordinated several National and European projects. He is fascinated by all aspects related to machine intelligence. Currently, he is mostly working on Deep Learning, Generative AI, Diffusion Models. He is also interested in Deep Reinforcement Learning.