Alessio Botta

Alessio Botta was born in Livorno, Italy, on August 10th, 1980.

He received the PhD (Dottorato di Ricerca) in Computer Science and Engineering from the IMT Lucca Institute for Advanced Studies in April 2008 with a thesis on Soft Computing and Context Adaptation, under the joint supervision of Prof. Beatrice Lazzerini and Prof. Francesco Marcelloni.

Currently, he works as a business consultant at McKinsey & Co. Italy.

During his PhD, he published more than 15 research articles in international journals and conferences on the topics of context adaptation of fuzzy systems, constrained and multi-objective genetic algorithms, computational intelligence techniques for global computing and fuzzy matching of graphs. Also, in Fall 2006, he worked as Research Scholar and Senior Lecturer of Programming for the World Wide Web at the Mathematics and Computer Science Department at Suffolk University in Boston and as Teaching Assistant in Computer Networks' Services and Applications at the Department of Information Engineering, University of Pisa.

Previous to starting his PhD, he received the Laurea degree (cum laude) in Information Technology Engineering and the Laurea Specialistica degree (cum laude) in Information Technology Engineering for Business Management from the University of Pisa in 2002 and 2004, respectively. In 2004, he spent an internship period at the TD Group SpA in Pisa.

He has been affiliated to the Computational Intelligence Group at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione, Università di Pisa and was a student member of IEEE and IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. Also, he is an active member of the Italian Association of PhD Students and Doctors.