Roberto Basili, is currently Full Professor in Computer Science at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, where he has carried out research since the 1990s, on Artificial Intelligence problems, methodologies and technologies in the areas of Machine and Deep Learning, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and in the engineering of NLP-based Systems for Distributed Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management. He has been coordinator of the PhD program in Data Science at the University of Tor Vergata since 2021. His current courses are Deep Learning, Web Mining and Retrieval, Artificial Intelligence as well as Data and Knowledge, for the Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Computer Science, which he has been coordinating since 2018. 

He is currently President of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL), the European branch of the international association ACL. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA) until November 2023 and co-founder of the Italian Association for Computational Linguistics, for which he is a member of the Scientific Committee .

He is the author of more than 200 publications in scientific journals and International Conference Proceedings and books with international popularity. He has been an invited speaker at International Conferences and Workshops in the area of Machine Learning for Automatic Language Processing and in the area of ontological knowledge acquisition from extended text collections, and in the area of Information Retrieval since the 1990s. Member of Program Committees and Organizer of International Conferences and Workshops in his research areas (IJCAI, ACL, EMNLP, ECAI, SIGIR) and regularly contributes as an editor to major journals in his research area (including Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, ACM Transaction on Speech and Language Processing, Natural Language Engineering). He is co-editor in chief of the 2018 Italian Journal of Computational Linguistics.

He has coordinated, as principal investigator, several international research projects funded by the European Community, on the topics of NLP and applications of AI to industrial challenges in banking, media, tourism and medicine and has contributed to several technology transfer initiatives by inspiring innovative projects and start-ups.