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Antonio LIETO Curriculum

Antonio Lieto is Associate Professor in Computer Science at University of Salerno (Italy), where he leads the CIIT LAB (Cognition, Interaction and Intelligent Technologie Laboratory) and a researcher at the ICAR-CNR Institute in Palermo (Italy). His main research topics include commonsense reasoning, language and knowledge technologies, cognitive architectures for intelligent interactive agents (embodied and not). He has been Vice-President of the Italian Association of Cognitive Sciences (AISC, 2017-2022), the recipient of the “Outstanding BICA Research Award” from the Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architecture Society (USA), and is an ACM Distinguished Speaker on the topics of cognitively inspired AI. He has authored the book “Cognitive Design for Artificial Minds” (Routledge/Taylor & Francis, 2021).

Previusly (2012-2023), he was a post-doc, junior-researcher (RTD-A) and tenure-track Researcher/Assistant Professor in Computer Science (INF/01) at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Turin (Italy). He was also (2016-2017) Research Associate and Scientific Consultant at the MEPhI (National Research Nuclear University, Moscow, Russia) and has been Visiting Researcher at the University of Haifa (Israel), Carnegie Mellon University (USA) and Lund University (Sweden).

His research interests are at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science and focuses on the following areas: Knowledge Representation and Automated Reasoning, Commonsense Reasoning, Semantic/Language Technologies, Cognitive Systems and Architectures, Persuasive Technologies. On these topics he has published more than 100 papers in top-tier peer-reviewed international conferences, journals and books.

Since 2015 he is a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Cognitive Robotics and is Associate Editor for the journal Cognitive Systems Research (Elsevier). He regularly serves in the PC of the main AI and Cognitive Science conferences (IJCAI, ECAI, AAAI, AAMAS, COGSCI, ACL).

Home page: https://www.antoniolieto.net