Luca Oneto, born in 1986 in Rapallo, Italy, completed his BSc and MSc in Electronic Engineering at the University of Genoa in 2008 and 2010, respectively. In 2014, he earned his PhD in Computer Engineering from the same institution. From 2014 to 2016, he worked as a Postdoc in Computer Engineering at the University of Genoa, where he then served as an Assistant Professor from 2016 to 2019. Luca co-founded the company ZenaByte s.r.l. in 2018. In 2019, he became an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Pisa, and from 2019 to 2024, he held the position of Associate Professor in Computer Engineering at the University of Genoa. Currently, he is a Full Professor in Computer Engineering at the University of Genoa. He has been coordinator and local responsible in numerous industrial, H2020, and Horizon Europe projects. He has received prestigious recognitions, including the Amazon AWS Machine Learning Award and the Somalvico Award for the best young AI researcher in Italy. His primary research interests lie in Statistical Learning Theory and Trustworthy AI. Additionally, he focuses on data science, utilizing and improving cutting-edge machine learning and AI algorithms to tackle real-world problems.
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