Francesco Fuggitti is a Scientist at the Bank of Italy -- Eurosystem, where he works on Distributed Systems and AI for national and European projects.
In 2022 and in 2023, Francesco was a Research Scientist at the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab in Cambridge, MA (USA), where he contributed to the IBM Research's watsonx Orchestrate and watsonx projects.
In September 2023, Francesco graduated with a double PhD in Artificial Intelligence from Sapienza University in Rome (Italy) and York University in Toronto (Canada) through an international joint agreement. His doctoral research, supervised by Prof. Giuseppe De Giacomo and Prof. Emeritus Yves Lespérance, focused on Artificial Intelligence, Formal Methods, and Business Process Management and Automation.
Francesco became a qualified Professional Engineer in Italy in November 2020. In 2018, he earned an MSc in Engineering in Computer Science from Sapienza University, under the supervision of Prof. Giuseppe De Giacomo. Prior to this, he graduated in Industrial Engineering from the University Campus Bio-Medico of Rome in 2016, where he was supervised by Prof. Luca Vollero.