
I received my PhD in March 2012 from the University of Brescia. My supervisor was Alfonso Gerevini, co-supervisor Alessandro Saetti.
I worked at the planning group of the University of Brescia, as a postdoctoral research fellow, till September 2012. In October 2012 I moved to the University of Huddersfield, where I served as a Research Fellow till April 2016, and as a Senior Lecturer till July 2020.
My main research interests are in Artificial Intelligence Planning and Argumentation. In particular I work on domain-independent planning, knowledge engineering, SATisfiability, machine learning, abstract argumentation, portfolio approaches, heuristic search, genetic algorithms, and automatic algorithm configuration. I am also active in the field of AI for Urban Traffic Control, and interested in the fields of innovative applications of AI in Medicine.
News!
- I have been awarded a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship!
- Our take on the future of Process Mining in dealing with recurrent clinical guideline issues
- Lessons learnt by organising an online conference.
- Check out the program on the first online SoCS: it's free to watch.
- It's finally out!! Our book on Knowledge Engineering Tools and Techniques for AI Planning
- I am an ACM Distinguished Speaker for the UK!
- Thoughts on driverless vehicles
- Some very personal thoughts on the AI singularity (on The Conversation).
- Let me say: I'm pretty proud of this paper about ArgSemSAT published in AIJ.
Something about...
- AI for Urban Traffic Control and Management
- Are planners' performance affected by HW and SW configuration? Of course!
- From time to time, we do play with robots :)
- What's new in Knowledge Engineering for AI Planning? Here the analysis of the results of ICKEPS 2016.
- Want to describe a Creative Agent? Here our proposal
- What is the state of the art in Planning after the 2014 International Planning Competition? Find it on the AI Magazine paper.
- Curious about Portfolio-based Planning? Here an extensive overview
Grants
- UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship: Artificial Intelligence for Autonomic Urban Traffic Control
- RCUK Catapult Researchers in Residence (Transport) project AI4ME (Principal Investigator)
- FOAK Innovate UK - SBRI project SimplifAI (co-Investigator)
- NERC project SimplifAI (co-Investigator)
Events organisation
- Co-chair of the ICAPS-21 Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS).
- Co-chair of the Doctorial Consortium of the 14th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS), 2021.
- Co-organiser of the AAAI Workshop on AI for Urban Mobility, 2021.
- Co-chair of the 2020 UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group workshop (PlanSIG-20).
- Co-organiser of the 27th RCRA International Workshop on Experimental Evaluation of Algorithms for Solving Problems with Combinatorial Explosion, 2020.
- Co-organiser of the COMMA-20 Workshop on Systems and Algorithms for Formal Argumentation (SAFA).
- Co-chair of the 13th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS), 2020.
- Co-chair of the ICAPS 2020 Special track on Knowledge Engineering, Integrated Execution, and System Architectures.
- Co-chair of the ICAPS-20 Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS).
- Co-organiser of the 26th RCRA International Workshop on Experimental Evaluation of Algorithms for Solving Problems with Combinatorial Explosion, 2019.
- Co-organiser of the 2019 Sparkle Planning Challenge.
- Co-chair of the ICAPS-19 Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS).
- Co-organiser of the 25th RCRA International Workshop on Experimental Evaluation of Algorithms for Solving Problems with Combinatorial Explosion, 2018.
- Co-organiser of the Workshop RiCerCA, 2018.
- Co-organiser of the COMMA-18
- Co-chair of the ICAPS-18 Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS).
- Co-chair of the ICAPS-17 Workshop on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (KEPS).
- Co-organiser of the Fifth International Competition on Knowledge Engineering for Planning and Scheduling (ICKEPS-16).
- Co-chair of the 2016 UK Planning and Scheduling Special Interest Group workshop (PlanSIG-16).
- Co-organiser of the COMMA-16
- Co-organiser of the ICAPS-15 Workshop on the International Planning Competition.
- Co-organiser of the deterministic part of the eighth International Planning competition (IPC 2014).
- Steering Committee Member of the International Competition on Computational Models of Argumentation (ICCMA).
- Co-chair of the Study Day on Computer Simulation of Musical Creativity
Tutorials
- Planning and Scheduling Approaches for Urban Traffic Control. Scott Sanner, Mauro Vallati and Stephen Smith, ICAPS 2019.
- Planning and Scheduling Approaches for Urban Traffic Control. Scott Sanner, Mauro Vallati and Stephen Smith, AAAI 2019.
- Knowledge Engineering in Planning: Representation Matters. Lukas Chrpa and Mauro Vallati, ICAPS 2017 (video).
- Argumentation in Artificial Intelligence: From Theory to Practice. Federico Cerutti and Mauro Vallati, IJCAI 2017 (slides: part 1 --part 2. Video: part 1 -- part 2).
(Recent) Programme Committee Memberships
- The 16th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems (CTS 2021)
- 2021 Joint Conference on AI Music Creativity (CSMC + MuMe 2021)
- 31st International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2021)
- 7th International IEEE Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS 2021)
- 17th Edition of the European Conference on Logics in Artificial Intelligence (JELIA 2021)
- 14th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Search (SoCS 2021)
- 6th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Engineering (ICITE2021)
- (SPC) 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2021)
- 35th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2021)
- 34th International Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS 2021)
- 2020 Joint Conference on AI Music Creativity (CSMC + MuMe 2020)
- 29th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and the 17th Pacific Rim International Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-PRICAI 2020)
- 19th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIxIA 2020)
- International Congress in Nursing Informatics (NI 2020)
- IEEE 5th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Engineering (ICITE 2020)
- 19th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2020)
- 24th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2020)
- 34th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2020)
- 33rd International Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS 2020)
- 18th International Conference of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AIIA 2019)
- 10th ACM International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2019)
- IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety (ICVES 2019)
- IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC 2019)
- 28th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2019)
- 17th World Congress of Medical and Health Informatics (MedInfo 2019)
- 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2019)
- 32nd International Conference of the Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society (FLAIRS-19)
- 29th International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling (ICAPS 2019)
- 33rd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2019)
- International Conference on ICT in Education, Research, and Industrial Applications (ICTERI), 2015--2020.
- Workshop on Advances In Argumentation In Artificial Intelligence 2017--2020.
- SPARK 2017, 2018, 2019.