Claudio Gallicchio is an Assistant Professor of Machine Learning at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Pisa, Italy. His research is based on the fusion of concepts from Deep Learning,Recurrent Neural Networks and Randomized Neural Systems. He (co-)authored several publications in Machine Learning journals and at major Machine Learning conferences, including ICML, AAAI, and IJCNN/WCCI. He is the founder and chair of the IEEE CIS Task Force on Reservoir Computing.