Scientific community service

Editorial boards of journals

Associate Editor
EPJ Data Science journal [Nov 2023 – present]
Associate Editor
International Journal of Data Science and Analytics (IJDSA) journal [Jul 2024 – present]
Associate Editor
Frontiers in Big Data journal [Jul 2021 – Mar 2025]

Organizing committees of conferences

General co-Chair
19th ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM ‘26)
Applied Data Science Track Program Committee co-Chair
37th—30th European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery (ECML-PKDD ‘26)
Finance Chair
33rd ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM ‘24)
Workshop co-Chair
30th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD ‘24)
Industry Track Program Committee co-Chair
16th International Conference on Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM ‘24)
Workshop co-Chair
16th IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM ‘16)

Organization of workshops and similar satellite events of conferences

co-Organizer
[1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th, 8th, 9th, 10th] Workshop on MIning DAta for financial applicationS (MIDAS [‘16, ‘17, ‘18, ‘19, ‘20, ‘21, ‘22, ‘23, ‘24, ‘25])
In conjunction with the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery (ECML-PKDD [‘16, ‘17, ‘18, ‘19, ‘20, ‘21, ‘22, ‘23, ‘24, ‘25])
co-Organizer
1st Workshop on Innovations, Privacy-preservation, and Evaluations Of machine Unlearning Techniques (WIPE-OUT)
In conjunction with the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery (ECML-PKDD ‘25)
Industrial Session co-Chair
[2nd, 3rd] International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization and Big Data (MOD [‘16, ‘17])
co-Organizer
Mini-Symposium on Multiple Clusterings, Multi-view Data, and Multi-source Knowledge-driven Clustering (MultiClust ‘14)
In conjunction with the 14th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM ‘14)
co-Organizer
4th MultiClust Workshop: Multiple Clusterings, Multi-view Data, and Multi-source Knowledge-driven Clustering
In conjunction with the 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD ‘13)
co-Organizer
1st International Workshop on Multi-view data, High-dimensionality, External Knowledge: Striving for a Unified Approach to Clustering (3Clust ‘12)
In conjunction with the 16th Pacific-Asia Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (PAKDD ‘12)

Other boards

Guest Editor
Journal Track of the European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML-PKDD JT) [2020–2025]
Guest Editor
Special Issue on Human-AI-Robot Teaming (HART)
Robotics journal
[2024–2025]
Distinguished Reviewer Board member
ACM Transactions on the Web (TWEB) [2022–2024]
Program Board member
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
[2022–2024]
Scientific Committee member “Data Science for Economics and Finance: Methodologies and Applications” book
Editors: S. Consoli, D. Reforgiato Recupero, M. Salsana. Publisher: Springer Nature.
[2020]

Program committees (major conferences)

Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment (PVLDB)
[2026]
IEEE International Conference on Data Engineering (ICDE)
(research track) [2025–2026]
ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data (SIGMOD)
(research track) [2022, 2024-2025]
ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD)
(research track) [2014-2025]
International World Wide Web Conference (WWW)
(graph algorithms and learning for the Web track) [2014, 2016-2025]
International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI)
[2020-2025]
IEEE International Conference on Data Mining (IEEE ICDM)
[2014-2016, 2018-2023, 2025]
ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
(research track, long papers) [2012-2022, 2025]
European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI)
(research track) [2023, 2025]
ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM)
[2013-2014, 2020-2024]
SIAM International Conference on Data Mining (SDM)
[2012, 2014-2024]
European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD)
(research track) [2016-2019, 2021-2023]
European Conference on Machine Learning and Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases (ECML PKDD)
(applied data science track) [2015-2018, 2021-2023]
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI)
[2021-2022]
International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM)
[2014, 2017-2022]
International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (SIGIR)
[2020-2021]
ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
(research track, short papers) [2019-2020]
ACM International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM)
(industry/case studies track) [2017-2018]

Program committees (other conferences & workshops)

ITADATA [2024–-2025]; SEBD [2022–2023]; FRCCS [2023];
DSAA - special sessions track [2021–2022];
DSAA - applications track [2019–2020]; DS [2022]; ASONAM [2015–2020]; NetSci [2020]; LOD [2017–2020]; CSoNet [2019]; SocInfo [2019]; KDIR [2016–2019]; ICoMS [2018]; ICBK [2017]; CIDM [2016]; EIDWT [2011]; Open-SOFOS Work. @ECML-PKDD [2022]; Soc2Net Work. @ASONAM [2019–2020]; BSMDMA Work. @IEEE BigData and @IJCAI [2018–2019]; MATNet Work. @WWW [2018]; SoAPS Work. @ECIR [2018]; MultiClust Work.@SDM [2012]

Invited talks

Network-based Receivable Financing
Scuola Normale Superiore
Virtual Seminar, December 2021
Dense Subgraph Discovery in Temporal Networks
Workshop on Algorithmic Aspects of Temporal Graphs IV
48th Int. Colloq. on Automata, Languages, and Programming (ICALP ‘21)
Virtual Event, July 2021
Data Science on Information-rich Graphs: New Frontiers, Problems, and Methods
University of Milan
Milan, Italy, June 2019
Mining Massive Complex Graphs: New Frontiers and Methods
ISI Foundation
Turin, Italy, September 2015
From Patterns in Data to Knowledge Discovery: what Data Mining can do
3rd International Conference Frontiers in Diagnostic Technologies (ICFDT ‘13}
Frascati, Italy, November 25-27, 2013
Projective Clustering Ensembles
Yahoo Labs
Barcelona, Spain, September 2011
Information-Theoretic Hierarchical Clustering of Uncertain Data
George Mason University
Fairfax VA, USA, April 2009

External refereeing

Journals:
TKDE, TKDD, TPAMI, VLDBJ, MACH, DAMI, TIST, Information Systems, TWEB, TCSS, TBDATA, Pattern Recognition, Internet Mathematics, Nature Communications, AIRE, KAIS, Information Sciences, APNS, DKE, SAM, AI Communications, AI in Medicine, JOCS, Computational Intelligence, BDR, IJDSN, IJITDM, JINT, JIIS, EAAI, ADAC, Neural Networks, JDIQ, Information Fusion, IEEE Access, ISSI
Conferences:
SIGMOD, KDD, WWW, ICDE, ICDM, WSDM, CIKM, EDBT, SDM, ECML PKDD, PAKDD, DaWaK, CIDM, EDB, IDEAS, SEBD

Conference participation

ASONAM ‘24, CIKM ‘24, CIKM ‘23, ECML-PKDD ‘23, ECML-PKDD ‘22, CIKM ‘21, ECML-PKDD ‘21, ECML-PKDD ‘20, ECML-PKDD ‘19, BigNOMICS ‘19, CIKM ‘18, ECML-PKDD ‘18, ECML-PKDD ‘17, WIMS ‘17, IEEE BigData ‘16, ECML-PKDD ‘16, ECML-PKDD ‘14, KDD ‘14, EDBT ‘14, VLDB ‘12, SEBD ‘11, SIGMOD ‘11, ICDM ‘10, ICDM ‘09, IDEAS ‘09, SDM ‘09, ICDM ‘08, SUM ‘08, CBMS ‘07

Francesco Gullo, PhD