Francesca Rossi


Francesca Rossi is an Italian computer scientist, doing research in artificial intelligence. She is a full professor at the University of Padua. She is the president of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence and is Associate Editor in Chief of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research.

Education and career

She received her Laurea in Information Science from the University of Pisa in 1986, and a PhD in Computer Science from the same university in 1993.
She was an assistant professor at the University of Pisa and an associate professor of Computer Science
at the University of Padua.
Since 2001 she is full professor of Computer Science
at the University of Padua and
currently on sabbatical as a Fellow of Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies, Harvard University.

Research interests

Her research on artificial intelligence has a particular emphasis on preference modeling and reasoning, constraint processing, multi-agent systems. She has published widely in international journals and conferences and also edited several volumes, including the . She co-authored a book on preferences and social choice.

Awards and honors