Marcello Balduccini Associate Professor Department of Decision & System Sciences Erivan K. Haub School of Business Saint Joseph's University marcello.balduccini@gmail.com

Research Goal
To study reasoning as it occurs in everyday life, and
to create mathematically-precise characterizations of it
with the ultimate goal of understanding how it can be automated.

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Education
Ph.D. in Computer Science, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
Laurea in Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Work-Related Experience

2023 - present	Associate Professor Department of Decision & System Sciences, Saint Joseph's University's Erivan K. Haub School of Business
2017 - 2023	Assistant Professor Department of Decision & System Sciences, Saint Joseph's University's Erivan K. Haub School of Business
2016 - 2017	Program Director, Bachelor of Science in Computing and Security Technology IS Department, College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University
2016 - 2017	Program Director, MS in National Security Management IS Department, College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University
2015 - 2017	Assistant Research Professor CS Department, College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University
2013 - 2015	Assistant Research Professor & Senior Research Scientist Applied Informatics Group, College of Computing and Informatics, Drexel University
2008 - 2013	Principal Research Scientist Kodak Research Labs, Eastman Kodak Company
2007 - 2008	Research Scientist Kodak Research Labs, Eastman Kodak Company
2006 - 2007	Post-Doc Research Associate and Instructor Texas Tech University, Computer Science Department

Research Areas

	Declarative Programming: Answer Set Programming/A-Prolog, Constraint Programming, Hybrid Discrete/Continuous Modeling Languages
	Knowledge Representation, Non-monotonic Reasoning, Commonsense, Ontology Development
	Cybersecurity, Cyber-Physical Systems, Malware Detection and Mitigation
	Intelligent Agents, Cognitive Robotics
	Natural Language Processing, Information Retrieval, Question Answering

Publications
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Invited Talks

	Graduate Education and the Use of AI, JBENET Network, October 2023.
	People, Ideas, and the Path Ahead, The 24th International Symposium on Practical Aspects of Declarative Languages (PADL), January 2022.
	Advanced KR&R and Hybrid Languages, Elemental Cognition LLC, June 2019.
	Executable Models of IoT, NIST workshop on Reasoning About IoT Trustworthiness, September 2018.
	Reasoning about the NIST CPS Framework, Cyber:Secured Forum, June 2018.
	Artificial Intelligence and Analytics: Trends and Opportunities, Qlik Technologies Inc., May 2018.
	Advances in Reasoning about Cyber-Physical Systems, University of Nebraska Omaha, April 2018.
	Reasoning over the Trustworthiness of CPS, Toward a Calculus for Logical Optimization of Trustworthy CPS (Workshop), December 2017.
	Trustworthiness Modeling, NIST CPS Framework Open Source Workshop, September 2017.
	Advanced Modeling and Reasoning Techniques: from Theory to Practice, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, June 2017.
	Securing the Internet of Things: Where Cybersecurity Meets AI, IEEE Drexel Research Symposium, March 2017.
	Industrial Problem Solving with Constraint Satisfaction, Saint Joseph's University, February 2017.
	Cybersecurity, AI, and the Internet of Things, IEEE Philadelphia Section Night Dinner, January 2017.
	The Enemy Within: Life and the Internet of Things, IEEE Philadelphia Section's Annual Student Night Dinner, November 2016.
	What Tweety-the-Penguin and Faulty Suitcases Tell Us about Productivity, Cybersecurity and Data Sciences, 2016 ICLP Workshop on Applications of Logic Programming (AppLP 2016), October 2016.
	Cybersecurity as Reasoning about Actions and Change, Villanova University, September 2016.
	From Tweety-the-Penguin to Cybersecurity:Knowledge Representation and its Practical Uses, GE Global Research, September 2015.
	Declarative Programming and Knowledge Representation: Overview and Practical Aspects, Cigna, September 2015.
	Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, IBM's Cognitive Systems Institute Group (CSIG), August 2015.
	Knowledge Representation for Situation-Aware Operations Support, U.S. Army Communications-Electronics RD&E Center (CERDEC), August 2014.
	Challenges in Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Agent Technology Center, Czech Technical University, July 2014.
	Some Recent Advances in Answer Set Programming (from the Perspective of NLP), 1st Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Automated Reasoning (NLPAR 2013).
	Intelligent Systems, Rational Behavior, and Rapid Development, Drexel University, Apr 2013.
	Model-Based Development of Intelligent Systems: the Answer Set Programming Approach, Eastman Kodak Company, Jun, 2007.
	Model-Based Development of Intelligent Systems, Loyola College, Mar, 2007.
	Answer Set Based Design of Autonomous, Rational Agents, New Mexico State University, Nov 18, 2005.
	Progress Report on Logic Form Translator, University of Texas at Dallas, Feb 4, 2005.

Student Advising Students in my research group conduct research in:   Knowledge representation, logic programming, constraint programming   Planning, diagnosis, agent architectures, cognitive robotics   Natural language processing, information retrieval, question answering   Malware detection and mitigation, cyber-physical systems Latest Research Activities   Design of answer set based autonomous, rational agents   Extensions of A-Prolog: CR-Prolog   Integration of ASP, CP, and other computing paradigms   Non-Herbrand ASP   Planning, scheduling, diagnostics, learning   Unmanned vehicle collaboration in communication-constrained scenarios   Representation of and reasoning about cyber and cyber-physical systems   Data semantics discovery   Cybersecurity and automated threat mitigation   Modeling of and reasoning about brain functions Select Past Research Activities   Representation of and reasoning about complex flight systems, e.g. the Reaction Control System of the Space Shuttle   Deep reasoning for natural language processing systems   Parallelization of the smodels algorithm using traditional parallel processing techniques   Computation of the answer sets of logic programs using neural networks   Extensions of A-Prolog: Epistemic Specification   Investigation of techniques for the integration of learning, planning, and action execution   Construction of a deliberative agent employing propositional learning and planning to interact with an initially unknown environment   Development of a module for SWI-Prolog supporting parallel processing Membership and Service   Member of the Knowledge Representation Lab   Member of the Texas Action Group   Member of AAAI   Member of the GULP board of experts for best Ph.D. dissertation award (2009 and 2012)   Area editor for KR and Non-Monotonic Reasoning, ALP Newsletter.   Chair/co-chair: Architectures for Intelligent Theory-based Agents (2008 AAAI Spring Symposium Series), ICLP08 Publicity Chair, ICLP09 Doctoral Consortium, ICLP10 Doctoral Consortium, Answer Set Programming and Other Computing Paradigms workshop 2010 (ASPOCP10) and 2011 (ASPOCP11), LPNMR13 Workshop Chair, 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Automated Reasoning (NLPAR2015), ICLP16 Workshop Chair, 14th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning 2017 (LPNMR17), 16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2018) Sponsorship and Publicity Chair, 15th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning 2019 (LPNMR19, general chair and local organizer), Philadelphia Logic Week 2019 (PLW 2019, local organizer), 20th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR2023) Funding and Sponsorship Chair   Member of the Program Committee of: LPNMR'05 Systems and Application Session, PREFS 2006, ASP07, DPPS@NMR08, SEA'09, LOG-IC09, DP@NMR10, CILC2010, KR-10 DC, LPNMR-11, Commonsense-11, IJCAI'11 (Senior PC), ICLP11, Log-IC 2011, SEA'11, INAP11, PADL'12, KR-2012, NMR 2012, PPDP 2012, ICLP12, ASPOCP12, RR2013, NLPAR2013, LNMR2013, ASPOCP13, KR&Robotics13, GTTV13, KR 2014, AAAI14, ICLP14, RR 2014, NMR14, ECAI14, ASPOCP14, AAAI15, LPNMR15, IJCAI15, RR2015, GTTV2015, PADL15, ASPOCP15, ALPP15, RCRA15, AAAI16, AAAI16 (student-program), IJCAI16, KnowProS@IJCAI 2016, ICLP16, GCCR16, ECAI16, ASPOCP16, PADL17, AAAI17, AAAI17 (student-program), KnowProS 2017, IJCAI17, KRPRAS 2017, ASPOCP17, ICLP17, PAoASP17, PADL18, AAAI18, ASPOCP18, ICLP18, RCRA18, KR2018, AAAI19, PADL19, IJCAI19, ASPOCP19, RCRA19, AAAI20, ICLP20, KR2020, ASPOCP2020, KR2021, ICLP21, ASPOCP21, ICLP22, IJCAI-ECAI-22, KR2022, LPNMR2022, ASPOCP22, HYDRA2022, ICLP23, ASPOCP23, PADL24, ICLP24, LPNMR24, ASPOCP24, PADL25, ICLP25, PADL26   Reviewer for TPLP, AIJ, ACM TIST, ACM TOCL, ACM TOPLAS, JAAMAS, JLC, Fundamenta Informaticae, Science of Computer Programming, JANCL, JETAI, Springer Nature journals   Reviewer for various conferences and workshops, including: AAAI, ICLP, JELIA, KR, LPNMR, PADL   Webmaster of the KRLab site   Administrator of the KRLab Forum

Software Development   NDE Virtual Laboratory of Highway Structures for FHWA and Drexel University's Civil, Architectural & Environmental Envineering Intelligent Infrastructure Alliance   clingof, an inference engine that efficiently computes the answer sets of ASP programs with non-Herbrand functions   EZCSP, an inference engine that integrates ASP and constraint programming   RSig, extension of lparse allowing the specification of modules and signatures   APLAgent Manager, Java-based interface for A-Prolog intelligent agents   crmodels2, an inference engine for CR-Prolog   Java interface for the A-Circuit system (by M.Balduccini, M.Gelfond, M.Nogueira)   RCS/USA-Advisor, Java interface for the USA-Advisor reasoning system (by M.Nogueira, M.Balduccini, M.Gelfond, R.Watson, M.Barry)   JInstall, Java-based abstract class for software installers -- used in the installers for the USA-Advisor and A-Circuit   crmodels3, prototype of an inference engine for CR-Prolog - OBSOLETE: use crmodels instead   Romeo, parallel implementation of the smodels algorithm   NNEngine, engine for the computation of the answer sets of logic programs based neural networks   MKAtoms, postprocessor for smodels   BibPHP, web site for the management of BibTeX bibliographies using PHP and MySQL   sismodels, frontend to smodels for Strong Introspection Spare-Time Activities and Interests   System administration of NetBSD and Linux boxes on both sides of the Atlantic   Network security   Embedded systems programming (e.g. PIC, MIPS, HRI)   Mechanical & electrical work on my 92 Ford Ranger, 93 Chevrolet Corsica, and 85 Yamaha Virago XV700