Born in Milan on December 18, 1976, he got the Laurea degree in Biomedical Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano in 2001 and the PhD degree from Politecnico di Milano in 2005. From April 2006 he is an assistant professor at the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione of the Politecnico di Milano. His main research interests include: agents and multiagent systems, automated negotiations, game theory, multiagent planning, and real time systems. He is author of about 25 papers published on international journals, books, and conference proceedings.