He is Director of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Calabria and President of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence. His research activities have received numerous international awards, including the EurAI Fellowship, the IJCAI Distinguished Paper Award, the Kurt Gödel Fellowship Award, the Marco Somalvico Award, and the IJCAI-JAIR Best Paper Award. He is Associate Editor of the Artificial Intelligence Journal. Since October 2023, he has been the coordinator of the Committee set up by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers to update the national strategy on the use of Artificial Intelligence.