Chair of Smart Cities and Critical Infrastructures Track at the 42nd ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing, Gwangju, South Korea, 2027. Call for Papers: https://sites.google.com/view/sac-scci-2027/
Demo Chair of European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases - ECML PKDD 2026. Call for Papers: https://ecmlpkdd.org/2026/organisation/
Program Chair of 28th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, Laguna Hills, California, USA, 2026. Call for Papers: https://www.ieee-ism.org
Best Team Award and Academic Mentorship in the Innovation Challenge on Digital Footprints: Challenges, Risks in Everyday Digital Activities at IVI Summit 2026, Dublin, Ireland.
Award Certificate: https://nextcloud.th-deg.de/s/gyCz5Jx38agNZRS
Academic Mentorship Certificate: https://nextcloud.th-deg.de/s/mPNKc4NcPEE4F2Q
Associate Editor of Socio-technical Systems in the Age of AI Track at the 21st Internationale Tagung Wirtschaftsinformatik, Linz, Austria, 2026. Call for Papers: https://wi2026.at/
Ph.D. Review Committee for the University of Pisa and Italian National Ph.D. Program in Artificial Intelligence, XXXVIII cycle, Italy, 2026
Ph.D. Review Committee for the Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, 2026
Chair of Smart Cities and Critical Infrastructures Track at the 41st ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing, Thessaloniki, Greece, 2026. Call for Papers: https://sites.google.com/view/sac-scci-2026
Chair of Semantic Resilience for Critical Infrastructures at the 30th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, Dublin, Ireland, 2026. Call for Papers: http://kes2026.kesinternational.org/
Chair of Semantic Computing for Intelligent Decision Making Track at the 18th International KES-IDT Conference, Barcelona, Spain, 2026. Call for Papers: http://idt-26.kesinternational.org
Program Chair of 27th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, Naples, Italy, 2025. Editorial: https://doi.org/10.1109/ISM66958.2025.00006
UNUM Award 2025 for Mentoring Excellent Research and Outstanding Experimenting with AI, Fake News and Disinformation at IVI Summit, Ireland, 2025. Award and Trophy: https://nextcloud.th-deg.de/s/MWnbt5R4zwtRrCD
Guest Editor of Special Issue on Semantic Computing in Multimodal AI Applications at International Journal of Semantic Computing, 2025 Editorial: https://doi.org/10.1142/S1793351X25020052
Program Chair of IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence x Multimedia, Laguna Hills, California, USA, 2025. Call for Papers: https://semanticcomputing.wixsite.com/aixmm2025
Chair of Smart Cities and Critical Infrastructures Track at the 40th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing, Sicily, Italy, 2025. Call for Papers: https://sites.google.com/view/sac-scci-2025/
Chair of Semantic Applications for Critical Infrastructures at 29th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, Osaka, Japan, 2025 Call for Papers: https://sites.google.com/view/kes2025-saci/
Chair of Ph.D. Exam Committee, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy, 2025
Organizer of Erasmus+ Blended Intensive Programmes (BIP): AI-Driven Service Innovation, Telč, Czech Republic, 2025. Call for Applications to Participate: https://seslab.fi.muni.cz/en/bip-summer-school-2025
Guest Editor of AI-Driven Innovations in Cyber-Physical Systems at Journal Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier, 2024.
Certificate: https://nextcloud.th-deg.de/s/o3n2tMXHBqcD9yi
Program Chair of 26th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, Hitachi Central Research Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan, 2024
Best Paper Award at the 14th International Conference on Exploring Service Science, Brno, Czech Republic 2024. Certificate: https://nextcloud.th-deg.de/s/9K8smLbjnqZqEiY
Guest Editor of Special Issue on Multimedia Computing at International Journal of Semantic Computing, 2024. Editorial: https://doi.org/10.1142/S1793351X24020057
Chair of Smart Cities and Critical Infrastructures at the 39th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing, Avila, Spain, 2024. Call for Papers: https://sites.google.com/view/sac-scci2024
In 2023, I am Reviewer and Program Committee for ACM TIST, ACM JDIQ, Journal of Big Data, ACM UMAP, ACM SAC, IEEE ISM, IEEE BigMM, IEEE AIMHC, ECIS, IESS, IEEE FedCSIS, ICEIS, ADBIS, etc. I am also in the Ph.D. Exam Commision for University of Naples Federico II in Italy, University of L'Aquila in Italy, and Masaryk University in Czech Republic.
Award of Highly Ranked Conference Paper, THD Dies academicus 2023.
Editor of Big Multimedia Data and Applications for the journal of Frontiers in Big Data, 2023. Call for Papers: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/49519/big-multimedia-data-and-applications
Program Chair of 9th IEEE International Conference on Multimedia Big Data, California, USA, December 2023. IEEE Message: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10411795
Chair of Semantic Models for the Web of Things at the 27th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, Athens, Greece, 2023. Call for Papers: http://kes2023.kesinternational.org
Program Chair of 25th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, Laguna Hills, USA, 2023. Call for Papers: https://www.ieee-ism.org
Chair of Critical Infrastructures at the 38th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing, Tallinn, Estonia 2023. Call for Papers: https://sites.google.com/view/sac-ci2023
Best Conference Paper Award at THD, Dies Academicus 2022
Best Paper Award at the 11th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems, 2022 Certificate:https://nextcloud.th-deg.de/s/9d5QKFfbzdWpqLR
Guest Editor for the International Journal of Semantic Computing, 2022. Editorial: https://doi.org/10.1142/S1793351X22020020
Program Chair of 24th IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, Naples, Italy, 2022. IEEE Message: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10019623
Chair of International Workshop of Critical Infrastructure Dependability in conjunction with 52nd Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, Maryland, USA, 2022
Chair of Critical Infrastructures at the 37th ACM/SIGAPP Symposium On Applied Computing, Brno, Czech Republic, 2022. https://sites.google.com/view/sac-ci-2022/
Chair of Semantic Models for the Web of Things Session at the 26th International Conference on Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems, Verona, Italy, 2022
Program Chair of 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Multimedia, Online, 2021
Chair of 6th International Conference on Internet of Things, Big Data and Security, Online, 2021
International Liaison & Publicity Chair of IEEE International Conference on Cloud and Big Data Computing, Calgary, Canada, 2020 and 2021
Chair of International Workshop on Trust, Ethics and Information Quality in Smart Environments at the 22nd IEEE Conference on Business Informatics, 2020
Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Information Value Management" in International Journal of Information System Modeling and Design, 2019
Top 100 World-wide AMiner Most Influential Scholars in Recommender System - Artificial Intelligence, 2018
Chair of the International Symposium on Big Data in Cloud and Services Computing Applications at the 13th Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems, Poznań, Poland, 2018
Chair of the International Workshop on Data Engineering meets Intelligent Food and Cooking Recipe in conjunction with 34th IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering, Paris, France, 2018
Chair of International Workshop on Big Data in Smart Cities and Smart Buildings in conjunction with IEEE Big Data Conference, Boston, USA, 2017
Chair of International Workshop on Geospatial Data Processing for Tourist Applications in conjunction with 21st European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, Nicosia, Cyprus, 2017
Chair of 3rd International Workshop on Information Value Management in conjunction with 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Porto, Portugal, 2017
Guest Editor of the Special Issue "Quality Management in Big Data" in Informatics Journal, 2017
Chair of Doctoral Consortium in 5th International Conference on Smart Cities and Green ICT Systems, Rome, Italy, 2016
Chair of the International Workshop on Decision Making and Recommender Systems, Bolzano, Italy, 2014, 2015
Director of European Industry-University Research Association, 2013-2016
