ProfMassimo Piccardi

Massimo Piccardi is a professor of natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning at the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), that he joined in 2002.

Over his career, Prof Piccardi has been the author or co-author of over two hundred scientific papers in international journals and conference proceedings and several book chapters. Since relocating to Australia from Italy in 2002, he has been the principal investigator of many advanced research projects including two ARC (Australian Research Council) Discovery Projects and an ARC Linkage Project, and a chief investigator in another Linkage Project and four Linkage Infrastructure Projects. Prof Piccardi has also received significant funding from several Cooperative Research Centres (CMCRC, FACRC, DHCRC).

Prof Piccardi serves as a member of the Editorial Board of the Artificial Intelligence In Medicine journal and has served as as an Associate Editor for several other journals in the past (IEEE Transactions on Big Data, CVIU, IVC, MVAP). He is a senior member of the IEEE, a member of its Computer and Systems, Man and Cybernetics Societies, a member of the International Association for Pattern Recognition, a member of the Association for Computational Linguistics, and has served as the 2023-2024 president of the Australasian Language Technology Association (ALTA). In 2022, Prof. Piccardi has been a recipient of the inaugural IEEE Computer Society Distinguished Contributor award.