Stefano Leonardi

Full Professor at Sapienza University of Rome

Stefano Leonardi is Full Professor of Computer Science & Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome. He is the co-author of about 150 publications in international journals and conferences in the fields of Algorithm Theory, Algorithms and Data science, Economics and Computation. He held visiting positions at Carnegie Mellon University in 2014, at Google New York in 2013, and at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing at the University of Berkeley in 2016. He promoted and chaired the Master's Degree in Data Science and the Doctoral Program in Data Science at Sapienza University of Rome. In 2012 he received the Google Faculty Award for his research on Algorithms for Economic Mechanisms, and in 2014 he received the Google Focused Award for his research on Web Algorithmics for Large-scale Data Analysis. In 2018 he was appointed Fellow of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science. In 2018 he received the ERC Advanced Grant for the project "Algorithm and Mechanism Design Research in Online MArkets".