Donato Malerba has been a Full Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, Italy, for over two decades. His research interests include Data Science, machine learning, data mining, big data analytics, and Artificial Intelligence. He leads the Knowledge Discovery and Data Engineering (KDDE) research group and has been involved in numerous European, national, and international research projects since the early EU Framework Programmes, serving as principal investigator of several local research units. He served as Director of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Bari from 2015 to 2022 and as Director of the National Laboratory on Big Data of the Italian Consortium for Informatics (CINI) from 2014 to 2021. He is currently the scientific coordinator of Spoke 6 “Symbiotic AI” within the Future Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) project and has also been co-PI for the transversal project TP7 “Data-Centric AI and Infrastructures”. He has contributed to European research and innovation initiatives as a member of the Board of Directors of the Big Data Value Association (BDVA) and of the Board of the European Big Data Value Public–Private Partnership. He has authored more than 360 scientific publications and has served as General Chair or Program Chair of several international conferences in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data mining. He received an IBM Faculty Award (2004) and is a senior member of the IEEEE CS and ACM.