last update: Jan 28, 2026
Andrea Tagarelli is a full professor of computer engineering at the University of Calabria, Italy. He graduated summa cum laude in computer engineering, in 2001, and obtained his Ph.D. in computer and systems engineering, in 2006. His Ph.D. thesis work focused on information and knowledge extraction from semistructured text data. He was research fellow at the Department of Computer Science & Engineering, University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, USA, working in the George Karypis’s Data Mining Lab, from March to September 2007. He obtained the Italian national scientific qualification to associate professor, in December 2013, and to full professor, in April 2017, for the computer science and engineering research area, scientific disciplinary sector (SSD) ING-INF/05 “Sistemi di Elaborazione delle Informazioni”.
His research interests span various AI-related topics, including machine learning, data mining, natural language processing, web and network science, and information retrieval. On these topics, he has coauthored more than 200 peer-reviewed scientific publications. He also wrote a book on user behavior analysis and mining problems in social networks — A. Tagarelli, R. Interdonato (2018) “Mining Lurkers in Online Social Networks – Principles, Models, and Computational Methods”. Springer Briefs in Computer Science, 93 pages — and edited a book titled “XML Data Mining: Models, Methods, and Applications”, 538 pages, IGI Global publisher, 2012.
He was program co-chair for the 2018 IEEE/ACM Int. Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), and for the 8th Int. Conference on Computational Data & Social Networks (CSoNet), 2019. He was co-organizer of workshops and a mini-symposium on data mining topics in premier conferences in the field (ACM SIGKDD, SIAM DM, PAKDD, ECML-PKDD, ICWSM, ECIR). He serves as a reviewer as well as a member of program committee for leading journals and conferences in the fields of databases and data mining, knowledge and data engineering, network analysis, information systems, knowledge based systems, and artificial intelligence.
He is associate editor of the journals Artificial Intelligence Review (Springer Nature), Social Network Analysis and Mining (Springer Nature), Computational Intelligence (Wiley-Blackwell), AI and Ethics (Springer Nature). Additionally, he has been lead guest editor of IEEE Trans. on Network Science and Engineering − Special Issue on “Reloading Feature-rich Information Networks” − and Lead Guest Editor of Information Systems, Elsevier − Special Issue on “Managing, Mining and Learning in the Legal Data Domain”, and Online Social Networks and Media, Elsevier – “Decentralized Online Social Networks”.
He has been a SIAM member since 2008, and an ACM member since 2009. He is founder member of three startups in the ICT context:
– JurisAI s.r.l., an innovative start-up established on December 2021, which builds its mission on the opportunity of improving relations between the legal domain, the financial and banking services domain, and the area of new information technologies, based on the awareness of the impact that digitalization and AI are having on law and finance to an ever-increasing extent;
– Bigtech s.r.l., established in 2022, which aims to harness AI, big data and Internet of Things for advanced data analysis tasks;
– Ithea s.r.l., spin-off of the University of Calabria, since January 2008 (now part of Relatech, based on Milan, Italy), which develops ITC service and software solutions, particularly suited to needs of public administrations and medium-small enterprises.