Curriculum Vitæ: Biosketch

Giovanni Squillero works as a full professor of computer science at Politecnico di Torino, Department of Control and Computer Engineering. His research combines artificial intelligence and soft computing, in particular bio-inspired meta-heuristics, multi-agent systems, and approximate optimization. The industrial applications of his work range from electronic CAD to bioinformatics, to the cultural sector. He is credited as an author in 3 books, 44 journal articles, 11 book chapters, and 153 papers in conference proceedings; he is also listed as an editor in 16 volumes. As an entrepreneur, he co-founded Ominee, S.r.l. in 2014, Bactell, Inc. in 2019, and Ai·Culture, S.r.l. in 2024.

Since 1998, Squillero has lectured 85 university courses (19 phd, 6 ms, 60 bs; 48 in English, 37 in Italian); he has contributed to another 39 courses as an assistant or in other ancillary roles. He has presented 14 tutorials (13 in top conferences); he has been invited to give 1 keynote and 5 talks (2 in national events). Squillero also contributes to different free and open-source projects, and routinely publishes his research and didactic material on GitHub.

On a more playful note, after coaching the team that won the bronze medal at SWERC17, Squillero helped creating CPPolito, Politecnico’s student team for competitive programming. Then, in 2022, he assisted the establishment of Scacchi PoliTO, the student organization for promoting chess-related activities, where he continues to serve as an advisor.