Roberto Casadei is an assistant professor at Alma Mater Studiorum–Università di Bologna (Italy). He has a PhD in Computer Science & Engineering from the same university, with a thesis awarded by the IEEE TCSC. His research interests revolve around software engineering and distributed artificial intelligence. He has 50+ publications in international journals and conferences on topics including collective intelligence, aggregate computing, self-* systems, and IoT/CPS. He also leads the development of the open-source ScaFi aggregate programming toolkit. He has been serving in the organizing and program committees of multiple conferences such as ACSOS, COORDINATION, ICCCI, and SAC, as a guest editor and reviewer for renowned international journals, and as editorial board member of JAISCR.