About

Alfonso Fuggetta is a Full Professor of Computer Science at Politecnico di Milano and CEO of Cefriel, a technology transfer and innovation center established in 1988 in Milan to promote the cooperation among academia, industries, and public administrations. He has been a visiting researcher and professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and the Institute for Software Researcher at the University of California, Irvine. He has also been a member of different national and international bodies established to discuss public policies to promote research and innovation in the Information and Communication Technology sector. In 2020, He was part of the task force of the Italian Government who selected the Immuni app for contact tracing at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic.