I am a Research Scientist at ICAR Institute of the National Research Council of Italy. In July 2006, I received my "Laurea cum Laude" in Computer Engineering from the University of Palermo.

In April 2011, I attained my PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Palermo, proposing a thesis in the field of knowledge management systems.

My research activities are mainly focused on cognitive and normative systems. I am primarily interested in the identification of methods that can provide reasoning capabilities to cognitive systems in dynamic environments. At the present, I'm involved in a new stream of research for exploring aspects regarding the assignment of self-learning and self-adaptation features to complex systems, including cyber-physical systems, robotic systems and software agent. My previous work has touched on areas of Software Engineering, Multi-Agent systems, Ontologies and knowledge formalization.