His current research focuses on Data Mining and Machine Learning for Education. He has co-authored papers in top-tier international journals, such as Information Processing & Management (Elsevier), Computers in Human Behavior (Elsevier), and IEEE Cloud Computing. His research activity also brought him to give talks (e.g., ECIR 2019, EEE 2020), demos (e.g., TheWebConf 2018, INTERSPEECH 2019), and tutorials (e.g., UMAP 2020, ICDM 2020) at several international conferences. He is part of the program committee of main international conferences, such as ACL, AIED, CHI, CVPR, ECML-PKDD, EDM, EMNLP, ITICSE, INTERSPEECH, ICALT, and UMAP. He has been also acting as a reviewer for top-tier journals, such as Pattern Recognition Letters and IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. He has co-chaired the BIAS workshop at ECIR2021. He has served as a guest editor for a special issue of Information Processing & Management and Future Generation Computer Systems (Elsevier, ongoing). He has been involved in several national and European projects (e.g., iLearnTV, DECODE, EDUC). He is a member of several national and international associations, including CVPL, AIxIA, IEEE, and ACM.