Carlo Vercellis is full professor of Machine Learning at Politecnico di Milano. He is director of door, the Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics research group, founder and director the Observatory on Big Data Analytics & Business Intelligence and director of the International Master in Business Analytics and Big Data at MIP-Politecnico di Milano.He is founder of Aiblooms, a spin-off of Politecnico di Milano, a boutique consulting firm bringing together the long-standing experience that its members developed in prominent cross-industries projects to deliver machine learning and artificial intelligence software for data driven companies.His research interests include machine learning, focusing on deep learning, support vector machines, nonlinear dimensionality reduction, sentiment analysis; application of predictive methods to marketing, social networks, internet of things, finance, biolife science; optimization models, with applications to supply chain and revenue management. His past research dealt also with design and analysis of algorithms for combinatorial optimization, project management, transportation models.He is author of more than 80 scientific writings, among which 6 books and more than 60 papers in high-rank international journals and books. He has been associate editor of several journals. He has coordinated several national and international research programs funded by EEC, CNR, MIUR and private companies. He co-organized several international conferences, and has been invited to discuss his research work in leading research institutions. He developed projects with several companies on machine learning, predictive analytics, big data, sentiment analysis, marketing, risk analysis, supply chain optimization, quality control.Previously, after his graduation in Mathematics at Università degli Studi di Milano, he has been with National Research Council (CNR), Bocconi University and Università degli Studi di Milano.