Valerio Basile is an Assistant Professor at the University of Turin. He received his PhD in 2015 from the University of Groningen with a thesis on Natural Language Generation. He has then worked as a postdoc at Inria Sophia Antipolis on the European project ALOOF no AI and robotics. In recent years, his research interests shifted to sentiment analysis, in particular online social media and the modeling of multilingual abusive language and hate speech. He is the author of more than 70 peer-reviewed papers, member of the program committee for several international conferences, and reviewer for many international journals. He has been involved in several national and European projects concerning Natural Language Processing and Artificial Intelligence. He created and contributed to several freely accessible language resources (TWITA, HurtLex, Sentix) and tools (KnEWS, Litescale).