Roberto Navigli is a full professor of Natural Language Processing in the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering at the Sapienza University of Rome, the head of the Sapienza NLP Group, and a Fellow of AAAI, ACL, EurAI and ELLIS. In 2007 he received a Ph.D. in Computer Science from "La Sapienza" (recipient of the Marco Cadoli 2007 AI*IA prize for the Best Ph.D. Thesis in AI). In 2013 he received the Marco Somalvico AI*IA prize, awarded to the best young Italian researcher in AI, who has provided a significant, highly-innovative personal contribution in AI.