Francesco Marcelloni is full professor of Data Mining and Machine Learning at the University of Pisa. He is member of the Management Board of the Circle U. European Universities Alliance and is the coordinator of the Research and Development Lab “Intelligent Techniques for Process Automation and Optimization” (IT2PAO). His main research interests include explainable artificial intelligence, federated learning, data mining for big data and streaming data, sentiment analysis and opinion mining, genetic fuzzy systems, fuzzy clustering algorithms. He has co-edited three volumes, four journal special issues, and is (co-)author of a book and of more than 240 papers in international journals, books and conference proceedings. Recently, he has received the 2021 IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems Outstanding Paper award and the 2022 IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine Outstanding Paper award. He has been invited speaker to a number of conferences and workshops. He has coordinated various research projects funded by both public and private entities.