Valerio Grossi holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Pisa. His research interests focus on the analysis of massive and complex data including mining data streams, ontology-driven mining, business intelligence and knowledge discovery systems. He took part in several European research projects as a member of the UNIPI research group, among which figure BRITE (Business Register Interoperability throughout Europe), MUSING (MUlti-industry, Semantic-based next generation business INtelliGence) and ICON (Inductive Constraint Programming), where he focused on the development of brand new data mining and knowledge discovery applications and on the research for the development of new business intelligence approaches.