Francesco Marcelloni

Professor of Data Processing Systems at the Department of Information

Francesco Marcelloni was born in Terni on 9th January 1966. He graduated in Electronic Engineering in 1991 and gained his Ph.D. in Electronics, Information and Telecommunications Engineering in 1996, both from the University of Pisa. After a period of time spent at the University of Twente (the Netherlands), his academic career has continued at the University of Pisa first as a researcher, then an associate professor and finally as a full professor in the 09/H1 sector – Data Processing Systems. Professor Francesco Marcelloni is married and has a daughter.
Institutional roles
Professor Francesco Marcelloni has covered the following roles within the University of Pisa: From 2012 to 2016, he was a member of the Academic Senate. From 2009 to 2012, he was the coordinator of the European Didactic Area for the Faculty of Engineering. From 2004 to 2010, he was the vice-president of the Master’s degree course in Computer Engineering for Management. Since 2014, he has also been a member of the Board of Directors of Pisa University Press.

Scientific and teaching activities

Professor Francesco Marcelloni’s teaching activities have been centred around the core subjects of the degree course in Computer Engineering and the advanced courses in Data mining for the Master’s degree course in Computer Engineering and Bionics Engineering. From 2003 to 2007, he headed three educational projects, financed by the Tuscan Region, for vocational modules in new university degrees.
Professor Marcelloni’s research interests are aimed principally at computational intelligence and its engineering applications, with original and innovative contributions relative to fuzzy classification, multi-objective evolutionary algorithms, genetic fuzzy systems and fuzzy clustering algorithms. Recently, his research focused on Big Data, proposing new classifiers on the Spark and Hadoop platforms, on smart cities, with new approaches to the identification of traffic accidents, monitoring energy consumption in the home and on data compression in sensor nodes.

Professor Marcelloni has co-edited three volumes, four special issues of International journals, and is co-author of a book and of more than 200 papers in international journals and conference acts. At present, he is the associate editor for the journals Information Sciences and Soft Computing and is a member of the editorial board of other international journals. He has chaired international conferences and workshops and has been invited to speak at numerous events. He has coordinated various research projects and has headed numerous company conventions.

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