Andrea Bonarini (Milan, 1957). Degree in Electronic Engineering (Computer Section) (1984), PhD in Information Technology (1989), Politecnico di Milano. Master in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (1993), IIPNL.

He is full professor at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of the Politecnico di Milano. He has been a member of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Project of the Politecnico di Milano since 1984. He has coordinated the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory since 1990, where he developed with his students, among other things, AI and ML systems, autonomous mobile robots for service, entertainment, educational, and space applications. He was appointed Fellow of the Alta Scuola Politecnica in 2012.

He is one of the founding members of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA) and of the Italian Regional Interest Group of the IEEE Neural Network Council. From 2008 to 2010 he was Chair of the Italian Chapter of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. From 2003 to 2006 he was National Coordinator of the Robotics Working Group of AI*IA. He teaches the courses "Informatics", "Artificial Intelligence", "Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence", "Design and Robotics", and "Envisioning AI in Design" at the Politecnico di Milano. He has taught doctoral courses at  Politecnico di Milano on "Uncertainty", "Fuzzy Logic", "Soft Computing" and "Designing Interaction".

He has tutored more than 180 MS degree theses, some ERASMUS theses, theses of the Alta Scuola Politecnica, and 14 doctoral theses in the fields of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robotics and Design. He participated for years (1997-2010) in the Robocup initiative (http://www.robocup.org), also with strategic organization tasks (member of the Executive Committee from 2002 to 2010). He has participated and coordinated many national and international projects, funded by EU, CNR, MURST, ASI and public and private companies.

His research interests have focused in the last years on human-robot interaction (in particular robotic games, service robots, and robots for people with disabilities, robotic objects, robotic art), but continue to also include intelligent data interpretation, autonomous robot development, affective computing, reinforcement learning and fuzzy systems. He has published more than 250 papers in international journals, books, and international conference proceedings.