Lugano, Ticino, Switzerland
Luca Maria Gambardella is an recognized AI expert, with 40 years of experience in the field. He Co-founded Artificialy in Lugano in 2020 where he is CEO since November 2025 (CTO from April 2020 to Nov. 2025) He is a full Professor at the Faculty of Informatics of USI in Lugano and Professor of the worldwide known IDSIA, the "Dalle Molle" Institute for Artificial Intelligence (USI-SUPSI) that he directed for 25 years until 2020. In his career he has successfully negotiated, conducted and delivered many AI and ML projects with Swiss and international companies. This list includes among others well-established companies such as Honeywell Bull, Migros, Number1, Georg Fischer, Alpiq, UBS, SGS, DXT Commodities and PMI such as Casale, Board International, Paradox Engineering, QBT, Medigest, C-Labs, Astes4, Protoscar). Scientifically, he is one of the pioneers of the Ant Colonies Optimization Metaheuristics. He has published more than 300 scientific articles, is h-index is 79 with more than 60’000 citations (google scholar). Education: PhD in Engineering Sciences and Technology, ULB, École Polytechnique de Bruxelles, BE Master in Computer Science, Faculty of Informatics, University of Pisa, Italy