Roberto Trasarti was born in 1979 in Italy. He graduated in Computer Science in 2006, at the University of Pisa. He discussed his thesis on ConQueSt: a Constraint-based Query System aimed at supporting frequent patterns discovery. He started the Ph.D. in Computer Science at the School for Graduate Studies "Galileo Galilei", (University of Pisa). In June 2010 he received his Ph.D. He is currently a senior researcher of ISTI-CNR, and also a member of the Knowledge Discovery and Delivery Laboratory. Currently the coordinator of SoBigData research infrastructure (www.sobigdata.eu). His interests are Data mining, Spatio-Temporal data analysis, Artificial intelligence, Automatic Reasoning.