Eugenio Cesario is an Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at DICES Department, University of Calabria (Italy). His research interests fall in the broad areas of Data Analytics and Parallel/Distributed Data Mining, and include Urban Computing, Smart Cities, Energy-aware Cloud Computing, Cloud\Grid services architectures, Knowledge Discovery applications. He co-authored over 70 scientific papers in international journals, conference proceedings, and edited volumes. He received two best paper awards and a best paper nomination in three international conferences. He is member of the Editorial Board of two international journals and he served as a chair, organizer, panelist and program committee member of several international conferences. He is member of the Scientific Board of the Ph.D. in ICT of the University of Calabria. He is also member of the Scalable Computing and Cloud Laboratory (DIMES-UNICAL) and co-founder of DtoK Lab s.r.l., a spin-off of University of Calabria. Since 2023 he is an ACM Distinguished Speaker.

Earlier in his career, from 2018 to 2020 Eugenio Cesario was an Associate Professor at CSSE Department, Monmouth University (U.S.). From 2007 to 2018 he was researcher at the Institute of High Performance Computing and Networks (ICAR-CNR) of the National Research Council (CNR) of Italy. He received his Ph.D. in Systems and Computer Engineering from the University of Calabria in 2006. From 2003 to 2006 he was a research fellow, at ICAR-CNR, working on data mining systems and applications. In 2005 he was visiting scholar at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY) working on high-dimensional categorical clustering issues. From 2015 to 2018 he spent short visiting periods at Urban Center for Computation and Data (University of Chicago, IL) and Rutgers University (NJ), working on urban data analytics and crime prediction. In 2023 he was visiting professor at New York University (NYU), working on machine learning algorithms for urban data analysis.