Prof. Paolo Nesi, is full professor of the University of Florence for of Big Data Architectures, Security and Privacy, and of Distributed Systems. His research activities cover: big data analytics, artificial intelligence, explainable AI, IoT, formal models, knowledge engineering; in the domains of Smart city, Industry 4.0.

He has been scientific coordinator of large international research projects such as: Snap4City H2020, Resolute H2020, Sii-Mobility, AXMEDIS, ECLAP, etc., and platform responsible of many others such as Replicate H2020, Trafair CEF, ICARO Cloud, HeritData, Mobimart, Weee, etc. He has been chair of IEEE ICSM, IEEE ICECCS, IEEE SC2, .. and programme chair of many others. He is editor of journals, member of the national center of mobility, member of PhD-AI programme, advisory board member for a number of EC projects in smart city and mobility.