Roberto Casadei is a Senior Assistant Professor (RTD-B) at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna.
Research themes
His research interests lie in the areas of programming languages, distributed systems, and collective artificial intelligence. Currently, his research activities focus on "software engineering" applied to "collective systems" (e.g., drone swarms, sensor networks, multi-agent systems). He has contributed to methods and paradigms for engineering collective adaptive systems from a global perspective (e.g., Aggregate Computing), as well as to middleware and self-organization algorithms. His contributions also extend to the fields of the Internet of Things and digital twins.
Publications
He has more than 80 publications, of which 30+ in international journals. His H-Index is 25 (GScholar), 20 (SCOPUS).
Service in the scientific community
He organized the workshops ASMECC (Autonomic and Self-* Management for the Edge-Cloud Continuum), 1st edition (2023); DISCOLI (DIStributed COLlective Intelligence), 4th edition (2025), 2nd edition (2023) and 1st edition (2022); and eCAS (Engineering Collective Adaptive Systems), editions 2021 and 2019.
He has been part of the organizing and program committees of various conferences, including AAAI, ECAI, SEAMS, ACSOS, COORDINATION, and SAC. In particular, he served as Senior PC Member of ACSOS'23 and Artifact Evaluation Chair for ACSOS'24 and DisCoTec'25/24/23.
Editorial service
He is editorial board member of Elsevier Internet of Things, Wiley Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, JAISCR (Journal of Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Research). He is guest editor for special issues in the Science of Computer Programming (Software Track), Frontiers in Robotics and AI and MDPI Electronics journals.
Teaching
He has been Adjunct Professor at the University of Bologna for the BEng courses in Algorithms and Data Structures (a.y. 24-25, 23-24; BEng in Computer Systems Technologies), Software Design & Development (a.y. 23-24, 22-23; BEng in Computer Systems Technologies), Laboratory of Mobile Systems Programming (a.y. 23-24; BEng in Computer Systems Technologies), Object-Oriented Programming (a.y. 22-23, 21-22, 20-21; BEng/Bsc in Computer Science and Engineering), Foundations of Informatics A (a.y. 24-25, 23-24, 22-23, 21-22, 20-21; BEng in Electronics and Biomedical Engineering).
Education
He got a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering at Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, in 2020, with a thesis on "Engineering Self-Adaptive Collective Processes for Cyber-Physical Ecosystems", under the supervision of Prof. Mirko Viroli, getting the Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing.
Awards and Recognition
He has been an IEEE Senior Member since 2025. He has received awards for his scientific work, including a Distinguished Artifact Award at ECOOP 2022, the Outstanding PhD Dissertation Award 2020, and the Award for Excellence 2024 from the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), "for contributions to computational and programming paradigms supporting the engineering of large-scale collective and self-organizing systems."
