Roberto Casadei, PhD - Contact details
- Associate Professor at DISI (Department of Computer Science and Engineering), Alma Mater Studiorum–Università di Bologna
- E-mail: roby [dot] casadei [at] unibo [dot] it
- Office: Cesena Campus, via dell'Università 50, Cesena, Italy
Currently taught courses
- Literature Reviews: Methods and Tools (PhD Course)
- 11929 - Algorithm and Data Structures - 6 cfu 15305 - Foundations of Informatics A
- Looking for theses? Check out the thesis proposals!
News
- 2025/12: I’ve been awarded the Italian FIS3 Starting Grant (~€1.1M) for my project FoMaSE
- 2025/10: I was invited to serve as PC co-chair of COORDINATION’26
- 2025/03: I joined the editorial board of the Wiley journal on Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience
- 2024/02: I entered the Editorial Board of Elsevier IoT
- 2023/10: I took service as Senior Assistant Professor (RTD-B)
Research themes
- Self-* software systems: architectures and models for self-adaptation and self-organisation.
- (Unconventional) Programming Languages: programming language-based approaches for emergent, collective intelligent, and self-organising systems (cf. Macro-programming).
- (Artificial & Hybrid) Collective Intelligence: theories, models, and techniques for understanding and engineering CI in (hybrid) multi-agent systems.
- IoT, Smart Cities & Edge Computing: programming models to express computations and coordinate resources across the IoT-edge-fog-cloud continuum and in large-scale scenarios (e.g., smart cities).
Main community service roles
- Associate Editor (Editorial Board Member): Elsevier IoT, JAISCR, Wiley CCPE
- Guest editor: Science of Computer Programming (Software Track), Frontiers in Robotics and AI
- PC co-chair of COORDINATION’26
- Artefact Evaluation Chair: DisCoTec’25, ACSOS’24
- PC member: AAAI’25, ECAI’25, ICCCI’24, QUATIC’24, SAC’24, ACSOS’24
Research projects
Especially:
- FIS3 Project FoMaSE (Foundations for Macroprogramming-based Software Engineering) - Role: Principal Investigator
- COMMON-WEARS: COMMunity-OrieNted WEARrable Computing Systems (2022-2025): PRIN Italian Project; I participated as scientific collaborator and task leader
- Fluidware (2019-2023): PRIN Italian Project; I participated as scientific collaborator