Alessio Cascardi is an Associate Professor at the University of Calabria (https://dinci.unical.it/storage/teachers/alessio.cascardi/). He is a multi-graduate in Building Systems Engineering and Civil Engineering with a PhD in Materials and Structural Engineering, mainly interested in the field of structural and energy reinforcement and consolidation of the existing built heritage in masonry and/or reinforced concrete with traditional and innovative composite materials. He currently focuses his research on the experimental, analytical, and numerical aspects aimed at defining new predictive formulas for the design and sizing of reinforcement. This goal is pursued through traditional data processing techniques, such as simple and multiple linear regressions, and innovative ones such as artificial neural networks and data mining. He is the author of more than 60 scientific articles published in national and international journals. He is the holder of two patents relating to the S.S.D. ICAR/09 – Construction Technique.