Luca Maria Gambardella

Luca Maria Gambardella
Born (1962-01-04) 4 January 1962 (age 62)[1]
Saronno, Italy[1]
NationalityItalian
Scientific career
FieldsArtificial intelligence
InstitutionsIstituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale
Websitepeople.idsia.ch/~luca

Luca Maria Gambardella (born 4 January 1962) is an Italian computer scientist and author. He is the former director of the Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence Research in Lugano, in the Ticino canton of Switzerland.[2] He is currently the prorector of Università della Svizzera italiana, where he directs the Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence degree course.

Several of his papers have been extensively cited, with his collaborators including Marco Dorigo, with whom he has published papers on the application of ant colony optimization theory to the traveling salesman problem, and Jürgen Schmidhuber with whom he has published research on deep neural networks.[3][4].

Beside working in research, Gambardella explores the potentials of AI applied for the generation of art. Some of his artistic installations received significant media coverage.[5][6] As a novelist, the genres he approached broad from Bildungsroman of his first book "Sei vite" ("Six lives"), to romance of his second book "Il suono dell'alba" ("The sound of sunrise").[7]

References

  1. ^ a b Luca Maria Gambardella’s Curriculum Vitae. IDSIA. Accessed January 2018.
  2. ^ Rino Scarcelli (22 October 2017). Intelligenza artificiale, a Lugano il primo master svizzero (in Italian). Swiss Broadcasting Corporation. Accessed January 2018.
  3. ^ Marco Dorigo, Luca Maria Gambardella, 1997. Ant colony system: a cooperative learning approach to the traveling salesman problem. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation 1 (1): 53–66. doi:10.1109/4235.585892. (subscription required).
  4. ^ Marco Dorigo, Luca Maria Gambardella, 1997. Ant colonies for the travelling salesman problem. Biosystems 43 (2): 73–81. doi:10.1016/S0303-2647(97)01708-5. (subscription required).
  5. ^ ILLUSA FINGO SOGNI FASULLI – Luca Gambardella e la gioia del palindromo (in Italian). Ticinolive. Accessed December 2023.
  6. ^ Besso pedestrian tunnel turns into a giant digital brain. MyScience. Accessed December 2023.
  7. ^ “Il suono dell’alba”: il nuovo romanzo di Luca Maria Gambardella (31 October 2019). [1] (in Italian). L'Osservatore. Accessed October 2020.