I am an Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam, a member of the SIAS (Socially Intelligent Artificial Systems) research group at the Informatics Institute, part of the Civic AI Lab, and director of the Bachelor in Information Science at UvA since 2023.

My trajectory --- intersecting micro-electronic engineering, organizational consultancy, AI & Law, cognitive systems, digital infrastructures, and co-design --- is perhaps more closely aligned with that of early cyberneticists than the path taken by most AI or CS scholars today. Rather than building upon the centralizing views prevalent in modern computing, I aim to advance approaches and methods to support a "plural" and "ecological" cybernetics, seeking a deeper understanding of the general mechanisms of cognition acting at the individual, inter-individual, and collective levels. Obviously, this means engineers often view me as a philosopher (No, I am not an ethicist), while philosophers view me as an AI engineer (No, I do not build LLM).

More concretely, I have been contributing to tracks such as computational legal theory/norm representation, agent-oriented programming, and computational cognitive models (and particularly on Simplicity Theory, a non-probabilistic model of cognition based on Kolmogorov complexity), including computational models of narratives and of argumentation. In the last few years, I started contributing to lines of inquiry on human and societal aspects of socio-technical systems, ranging from fairness and bias assessment to addressing values, explicit or implicit, as discussed and translated within social assemblages, to co-creation approaches. For further information, you can see my presentations.

Students interested in pursuing a bachelor or master thesis with me are encouraged to review these materials to ensure our interests align, then contact me via email with a brief proposal.

Short bio. I hold a degree in Electronic Engineering (from the Politecnico di Torino and the ENSIMAG in Grenoble, through a double-degree program). Before re-entering academia, I worked as a business analyst at McKinsey & Co., as a freelance software developer, and as a musician. I then earned a PhD in AI & Law at the University of Amsterdam, which I conducted at the former Leibniz Center for Law. Before transitioning to SIAS as assistant professor, I completed two postdoctoral research positions: one at Télécom Paris and Paris Dauphine University focusing on cognitively inspired computational methods, and another at the University of Amsterdam (at the Complex Cyber Infrastructure/CCI group, in the Systems and Network Engineering/SNE cluster) developing computational methods to regulate data-sharing infrastructures.

I am currently serving as the Program Chair of ICAIL 2027, the renowned International Conference of AI & Law, to be held in Vienna, between 5 to 9 July 2027.

I serve as a PC member for conferences like IJCAI, AAAI (AAAI-19 Outstanding PC Award), ECAI, AAMAS, ICAIL, JURIX, and several workshops in related areas. Since 2020, I am also the chief editor for Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence in the Technology and Law section. In 2023, I was the program chair of JURIX, the International Conference in Legal Knowledge and Information Systems, held in Maastricht; since then, I am treasurer and member of the steering committee of the JURIX foundation.