Vincenzo Loia
received the PhD in Computer Science from the University of Paris VI, France in 1989, and the bachelor degree in Computer Science from the University of Salerno in 1984. From 1989 he is Faculty member at the University of Salerno where he teaches Neural Network & knowledge Discovery and Multi Agent-based Systems. His current position is as Full Professor and Chair of Computer Science Department.
He was principal investigator in a number of industrial R&D projects and in academic research projects. He is author of over 300 original research papers in international journals, book chapters, and in international conference proceedings. He edited four research books around agent technology, Internet, and soft computing methodologies. He is co-founder of the Soft Computing Laboratory and founder of the Multi Agent Systems Laboratory, both at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. He is founder of the CO.RI.SA. (Research Consortium on Agent System). Then, he is Co-Editor in Chief of Soft Computing, and Founder and Editor in Chief of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing, both published from Springer-Verlag. He serves as Associate Editor / Editor in other fifteen international Journals. He has been Chair of Emergent Technologies Technical Committee (ETTC) , IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, from Jan 2007 to Dec 2008, now he is chairing the of Task Force "Intelligent Agents", inside ETTC. His current research interests focus on merging soft computing and agent technology to design technologically complex environments, with particular interest in Web Intelligence applications.