Domenico Diacono is a senior technologist at the National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN), Bari section, where he currently works on machine learning and explainable artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on applications in medical physics. He holds a degree in Physics from the University of Bari (1996) and has long-standing experience in advanced computing infrastructures, including the design and management of Linux clusters, high-availability services, distributed file systems and virtualized environments for scientific computing. Since 2001, he has been with INFN, where he served for many years as Head of the Computing and Networking Service, leading projects on email security, centralized authentication, cloud and HPC resources for large-scale data analysis. His recent research activity concentrates on deep learning and machine learning methods for medical imaging and clinical decision support, contributing to multidisciplinary projects and scientific publications in these fields.