Gianluigi Folino is a Director of Research at ICAR-CNR, the Institute of High Performance Computing and Networking of the Italian National Research Council.

Lecturer at the University of Calabria and previously at the University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro. He has been an advisor for several master’s theses and PhD theses in computer engineering at the University of Calabria.

His research interests focus on applications of distributed computing and data mining in the areas of cybersecurity, big data, and bioinformatics.

Co-founder of HFactor Security, an innovative startup aimed at mitigating the risks correlated to the human factor of a company by using machine learning and artificial intelligence-based techniques applied to Big Data.

Visiting researcher at the University of Nottingham (United Kingdom) in 2007 and 2009, at Radboud University, Nijmegen (Netherlands), in 2008 and 2009 and at the University of California (UCLA), Los Angeles, in 2013.

In the Editorial Board of Applied Soft Computing, Elsevier, and chair for the special session ”Multi-Agent and Bio-Inspired Algorithms and Applications for Distributed Systems” at IEEE PDP 2007 and for the workshop on Bio-Inspired Algorithms for Distributed Systems (BADS 2009, 2010 and 2011) at ICAC conference and guest editor for Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier, 2010, New Generation Computing Systems, Springer, 2011 and Natural Computing, Springer, 2013.
Habilitation as Full Professor in Computer Science Engineering (9/H1, Sistemi di Elaborazione delle Informazioni).