Michela Milano has been a Full Professor in the ING/INF05 sector at DISI - University of Bologna since April 2016. She is also the Director of the Digital Societies Center at FBK Trento. Her research activity focuses on Artificial Intelligence, with a particular interest in decision support systems that integrate hybrid reasoning, learning, and optimization methods for the development of descriptive, predictive, and prescriptive models.
In this field, Michela Milano has gained international visibility and has established collaborations with various academic and industrial research groups. She is a member of the program committees of the major conferences and workshops in the field and has served as guest editor for several special issues of international journals. She has been Editor-in-Chief of the journal Constraints, Area Editor of INFORMS Journal on Computing in the Logic, Constraint, and Optimization area, and Editor-in-Chief of ACM Computing Surveys. She is the author of more than 180 papers in international journals and conferences. She has served as program chair of CPAIOR 2005 and CPAIOR 2010, CP2012, and CompSust2012, and has delivered invited talks at major conferences in the field, such as IJCAI, ICAPS, CPAIOR, and CP.
Michela Milano has served as Vice President of EurAI (European Association of Artificial Intelligence) and Executive Councilor of AAAI (American Association for Artificial Intelligence). She was part of the core editorial team of the Strategic Research, Innovation, and Deployment Agenda of the PPP on AI, Data, and Robotics. She was also a member of the expert group on Artificial Intelligence appointed by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development to define a national strategy, and of the working group for the definition of the PNR 2021–2027. She is a member of the Steering Committee of CPAIOR, has been a member of the Executive Committee of the Association of Constraint Programming, and of the Governing Board of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA). She is part of the Horizon Europe Program Committee for the Italian delegation appointed by the Ministry of University and Research.
She is a member of the Academy of Sciences and of the Academy of Engineering and Technology.
She has coordinated and participated in numerous European projects, securing over €18 million from competitive funding and more than €2 million from industrial contracts.