Senior assistant professor affiliated to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Bologna
Roberto Casadei is a senior assistant professor affiliated to the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Bologna (Italy). He has a PhD in Computer Science & Engineering from the same university, with a thesis awarded by the IEEE TCSC. His research revolves around software engineering for self-adaptive systems, artificial collective intelligence, and swarm robotics, witnessed by more than 90 peer-reviewed publications in international journals and conferences. Contributions to open-source software artefacts like the ScaFi language show his commitment to open science. He received the IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence'24 (ECR), for contributions to "paradigms supporting the engineering of large-scale collective and self-organizing systems". In the scientific communuity, he has organised several workshops (e.g., DISCOLI), has served in the organizing and program committees of many conferences such as ACSOS, SEAMS, AAAI, ECAI, DisCoTec, ICCCI, as a guest editor and reviewer for renowned international journals, and associate editor of Elsevier IoT, JAISCR, and Wiley CCPE. He has been PC chair of COORDINATION'26. Since 2020, he has taught several computer science courses in engineering degrees, and mentored multiple PhD students and research fellows. In 2025, he received, with his project FoMaSE on macro-programming, the prestigious FIS3 Starting Grant for over 1M€.