Federico Cabitza, Computer Engineer, in 2001 he graduated in Computer Engineering with a dissertation on Subsymbolic Artificial Intelligence and Reactive Robotics under the supervision of Marco Somalvico (Joseph Engelberger Robotics Award and founding member of AI*IA, Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence); after a few years in the private sector as a requirements engineer and software engineer coordinator at two companies of the TC Sistema Group, in 2004 he entered the PhD program in Computer Science at the University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy), which he completed in 2007, with a thesis on computer support for collaboration and medical decision making under the supervision of Carla Simone (EUSSET-IISI Lifetime Achievement Award).
After a few years divided between research activities at the aforementioned university and consulting activities in several Lombardy companies operating in the IT sector (especially New Sysline SpA), he is hired as a permanent researcher (assistant professor) at the Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione of the Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, where he is shortly after entrusted with the chair in Human-Machine Interaction and where he becomes Associate Professor in 2018.
At this university, he has been teaching since then Human-Machine Interaction at the bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Interaction design and information systems at the master’s degree programs in computer science and in communication theory and technology, human-system interaction at the three-year inter-college degree in artificial intelligence and decision support at the master’s degree program in Artificial Intelligence for Science and Technology.
At Bicocca he directs the local node of the CINI national laboratory on “Computer Science and Society” and is responsible for the Laboratory of Models for Uncertainty, Decisions and Interactions.
A lecturer in the doctoral program in computer science, he has taught courses and teaching modules in numerous first- and second-level master’s degree programs and Graduate Schools and courses and events organized by companies in the educational sector (including IQVIA Italy, Sudler & Hennessey Italy, VMLY&R Italy).
A member of the university spin-off RedOpen, active in the field of cybersecurity, GDPR and impact assessment of artificial intelligence systems in organizational contexts, he is also a consultant to several companies in medical informatics and computational decision support projects, including especially Deloitte Italia (Healthcare) and Siemens Healthineers Italia.
Since 2021 CEI representative at IEC for ISO standardization activities of software medical device preset evaluation processes.
Since 2016, he has been collaborating intensively with several hospitals, including Istituto Ortopedico IRCCS Galeazzi in Milan (Italy), with which he has an institutional affiliation, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele in Milan, Buzzi in Milan and Gaetano Pini in Milan.
A speaker at numerous cultural and scientific outreach initiatives (including 4words, Forum Risk Management, AltroConsumo), he is also the author of more than 160 scientific publications, in international conference proceedings, edited books (including a book published by MIT Press) and scientific journals, since 2020 he has also been an associate editor of the International Journal of Medical Informatics; in 2021 he was listed in the top 2% of highest scientific impact among all researchers who are authors of indexed papers worldwide.
His current research interests include AI impact evaluation, design and evaluation of ML-based decision support systems in organizational (mainly clinical) settings, and in particular the phenomena of automation bias (decision support overdependence) and related deskilling.
He has been program chair of three international conferences (ITAIS 2017, Healthinf 2020, Healthinf 2023), co-chaired international workshops (on Data Visualization in Healthcare and knowledge IT artifacts), conference sessions (on Socio-technical design at ECIS, IPMU), and special issues in impact journals (the Health Informatics Journal of SAGE, the CSCW journal of Springer, and Program, of Emerald).
He is an associate editor of the International Journal of Medical Informatics (ISSN: 1386-5056), and a member of the editorial boards of journals such as Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction (ISSN 2504-4990), the Journal of Medical Artificial Intelligence (ISSN 2617-2496), the Journal of Cross-disciplinary Research in Computational Law (CRCL – ISSN 2736-4321), and Mondo Digitale, the official journal of the Italian Association for Automatic Computing.
With Prof. Luciano Floridi, he authored the book “Artificial Intelligence. The use of new machines,” published by Bompiani, Milan (2021).
SELECTED ARTICLES
Cabitza, F., Campagner, A., Angius, R., Natali, C., & Reverberi, C. (2023, April). AI Shall Have No Dominion: on How to Measure Technology Dominance in AI-supported Human decision-making. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-20).
F Cabitza, A Campagner, C Simone (2022) The need to move away from agential-AI: Empirical investigations, useful concepts and open issues. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies 155, 102696.
Cabitza, F., Campagner, A., & Sconfienza, L. M. (2020). As if sand were stone. New concepts and metrics to probe the ground on which to build trustable AI. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 20(1), 1-21.
Cabitza, R Rasoini, GF Gensini (2017) Unintended consequences of machine learning in medicine Jama 318(6), 517-518F.
Cabitza, F., & Simone, C. (2012). Affording mechanisms: an integrated view of coordination and knowledge management. Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 21(2), 227-260.