Giancarlo
Succi

Giancarlo Succi is Professor at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Bologna – Alma Mater Studiorum, where he also serves as coordinator of the BSc and MSc programmes in Computer Science; in parallel, he is Interim Dean of Computer Science and Engineering at Constructor University, Bremen.

Before joining the University of Bologna, he was Tenured Professor at Innopolis University, Russian Federation (where he served as Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering), Professor with Tenure at the Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy (where he directed the Center for Applied Software Engineering, served as Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science, and acted as the Rector’s delegate for ICT), Tenured Professor at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta (where he was also Director of Computer Engineering and of ASERC, the Alberta Software Engineering Research Consortium), Associate Professor at the University of Calgary, Alberta (where he was also Director of the Graduate Program in Software Engineering), and Assistant Professor at the University of Trento, Italy.

Dr. Succi holds a Laurea degree in Electrical Engineering (Genova, 1988), an MSc in Computer Science (SUNY Buffalo, 1991), and a PhD in Computer and Electrical Engineering (Genova, 1993). He has been a registered Professional Engineer in Italy since 1991 and later obtained full professional registration also for the Province of Alberta, Canada, during his residence there.

The research interests of Giancarlo Succi span multiple areas of artificial intelligence, data science, and software engineering, including applications in the economics, finance, and management sectors.

Prof. Succi has been involved in the creation of several startups, has secured more than €20M in research funding, is the author of over 500 research publications, has chaired and co-chaired numerous international conferences and workshops, has served on the editorial boards of several top-ranked international journals, and has an h-index of 61 on Google Scholar and 44 on Scopus.

Giancarlo Succi has also acted as a consultant for numerous public and private organizations worldwide in the areas of artificial intelligence and data science applications, software systems architecting, design, and development, strategy for software organizations, and training of software personnel.