Andrea Passarella (Ph.D 2005) is currently a Research Director at the Institute for Informatics and Telematics (IIT) of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR). Prior to joining IIT he was with the Computer Laboratory of the University of Cambridge, UK. He has published 190+ papers on Online and Mobile social networks, decentralised AI, Next Generation Internet, opportunistic, ad hoc and sensor networks, receiving several best papers awards. He is the founding Associate Editor-in-Chief of Elsevier Online Social Networks. He is co-author of the book "Online Social Networks: Human Cognitive Constraints in Facebook and Twitter Personal Graphs" (Elsevier, 2015). He was the chair of the IFIP WG 6.3 "Performance of Communication Systems". He was and is involved in several expert groups for EU programmes (FIRE, Networld2020, NGI). He is currently the PI of the EU CHIST-ERA SAI (Social Explainable AI) project, the national Coordinator of SLICES-IT, and and is/was CNR (co-)PI for several research and innovation projects in FP6, FP7 and H2020 in the areas of Human-centric AI, BigData, FET Proactive, Future Internet, FIRE, FoF, Smart Cities, as well as EIT Digital.