Dr.  Federico Cerutti

Dr Cerutti is a Rita Levi-Montalcini Fellow at the University of Brescia (Italy). The Rita Levi-Montalcini programme is a highly prestigious fellowship from the Italian Ministry of Research with an acceptance rate lower than 8%. He is also the Chair of the University of Brescia branch of the Italian National Cybersecurity Laboratory. Previously he served as Academic Director of the Data Science Academy of Cardiff University and as programme leader for the Master in Artificial Intelligence of Cardiff University. He is also one of the Expert Evaluator for the Evaluation of Research Quality (analogous to the UK REF) Italian National Agency for the Evaluation of Universities and Research Institutes.

He received his MSc in Computer Science and Engineering (cum laude) in 2008 and his PhD in Computer Science in 2012 from the University of Brescia (Italy). After a research fellowship at the University of Aberdeen, he has become a Lecturer at Cardiff University in 2015 and then Senior Lecturer in 2018. He currently holds the Academic Qualification as Associated and as Full professor from the Italian Ministry of Research (resp. from 2018 and 2019).

His research activity is focused mainly on artificial intelligence and nonmonotonic reasoning (in particular argumentation theory), and decision support with uncertainty. He studied suitable models of arguments and critiques for practical reasoning and decision support and provided efficient algorithms for solving relevant problems in argumentation theory, thus significantly improving the current state-of-the-art. In 2015, 2017, and 2019, he gave tutorials on argumentation theory at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, the most important venue for artificial intelligence. In 2016, he delivered a series of lectures at the Second Summer School on Argumentation.

He is co-author of more than 75 peer-reviewed papers, including several journal papers, and co-editor of two books.

He is a member of the ACM since June 2013 and an ACM distinguished speaker since 2021. Check also his website https://federico-cerutti.unibs.it

• Argumentation and Machine Learning: when the Whole is Greater than the Sum of the Parts
  Argumentation technology is a rich interdisciplinary area of research that has emerged as one of the most promising paradigms for common sense reasoning and conflict resolution. In this lecture, I...
• Artificial Intelligence for Cyber Threat Intelligence Analysis
  Cyber Threat Intelligence is the cyclic process analysts use to produce knowledge about weaknesses of one or more organisation's assets that can be exploited by one or more threats. Artificial...
• Enterprise knowledge management in the era of LLMs
  This lecture explores how Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionising enterprise knowledge management. We begin by examining the evolution of knowledge management systems, from early...
• Managing the risks of digital transformation
  This lecture examines the critical challenges of managing risks in digital transformation, integrating insights from the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, the NIST AI Risk Management Framework, and...
• The Importance of Causality in Cyber Threat Intelligence Analysis
  Each cyber attack is a set of chains of events linked together by time and causality: attackers’ and defenders’ actions influence each other in a complex, interconnected web of causal...