Gianluca Moro received the Ph.D. degree in computer science and engineering from the Department of Electronics, Computer Science and Systems of the University of Bologna, Italy, in 1999. He is professor of text mining, data mining and big data analytics at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering of the University of Bologna and head of the research unit in text mining and natural language processing of the Cesena campus. He co-organized several editions of workshops at VLDB and AAMAS, edited five international books and published more than ninety papers, even in top international conferences such as AAAI, IJCAI, EMNLP, ACL, AAMAS, COLING, etc., also winning some best paper awards. He has led national and international projects on data mining and machine learning research topics and collaborates with several research organizations.