Workshop Organizers
The organizing team
Vincenzo Moscato
Coordinator of the Master's Degree Program in Data Science and leader of the PICUS research group. His research focuses on Big Multimedia Data Analytics, AI and Social Network Analysis. Director of CINI ITEM Research Lab, with awards from Oracle and Microsoft. Author of about 260 publications.
vincenzo.moscato@unina.it
Francesco Piccialli
Head of the M.O.D.A.L. research lab. Expert in Agentic AI with research on autonomous systems within PNRR FAIR and the TUAI Marie Curie network, focusing on goal-driven, adaptive agents in Industry 5.0 and Smart Cities. Workshop Chair for AAAI, ICDCS, MobiCom, and CCGrid.
francesco.piccialli@unina.it
Qiang Yang
World-renowned pioneer in AI planning and transfer learning. Research on Agentic Reinforcement Learning and LLM-driven autonomous agents. President of IJCAI (2017-2019), General Chair for ACM SIGKDD 2012. Fellow of AAAI, ACM, IEEE, and the Royal Society of Canada.
profqiang.yang@polyu.edu.hk
David Camacho
Head of the Applied Intelligence and Data Analysis (AIDA) research group. His research focuses on Multi-Agent Systems, Swarm Intelligence, Machine Learning, and Computational Intelligence. Editor-in-Chief of Expert Systems (Wiley) and the International Journal of Interactive Multimedia and Artificial Intelligence (IJIMAI). His current research explores agentic aerial intelligence, studying how autonomous UAVs integrate reasoning and memory to cooperate in applications such as disaster response and infrastructure inspection.
david.camacho@upm.es
Valerio La Gatta
PhD from University of Naples Federico II. Research focuses on agentic and generative AI systems for socially relevant domains, including social media, public information, and security. Studies opportunities and risks of deploying autonomous AI in consequential domains.
valerio.lagatta@northwestern.edu
Gian Marco Orlando
Master's Degree in Computer Engineering with honors. Expertise in the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Social Network Analysis. Research interests in Social Network Analysis, Agent-Based Modeling and Big Data Analytics.
gianmarco.orlando@unina.it
Diego Russo
Master's Degree in Computer Engineering from University of Naples Federico II. Expertise in Recommender Systems challenges. Research interests in Recommender Systems, Social Network Analysis and Big Data Analytics.
diego.russo@unibg.it
Daniela Annunziata
Researcher within the M.O.D.A.L. group, specializing in agentic workflows for Scientific Discovery and Smart Urban Mobility. Leverages LLMs to orchestrate autonomous pipelines for drug discovery and intelligent traffic optimization. Workshop Chair for FIDTA at ACM MOBIHOC 2025.
daniela.annunziata@unina.it