Prof Motta is the Head of the Intelligent Systems and Data Science research group in KMi. His work spans a variety of aspects to do with large-scale data integration and modelling, semantic and language technologies, intelligent systems and robotics, and human-computer interaction. In particular much of his current work focuses on developing innovative approaches that integrate state of the art machine learning techniques with semantic and language technologies, to develop new solutions which support users i) in exploring and making sense of large-scale data and ii) in complex decision-making scenarios, involving humans and/or robots.