Vincenzo Loia received the PhD in Computer Science from the University of Paris VI, France in 1989, and the bachelor degree in Computer Science from the University of Salerno in 1984. From 1989 he is Faculty member at the University of Salerno where he teaches Operating Systems based Systems and Multi Agent-based Systems. His current position is as Professor of Computer Science and chairman of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

He was principal investigator in a number of industrial R&D projects and in academic research projects. He is author of over 100 original research papers in international journals, book chapters, and in international conference proceedings. He edited four research books around agent technology, Internet, and soft computing methodologies. He is co-founder of the Soft Computing Laboratory and founder of the Multi Agent Systems Laboratory, both at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. He is Managing Editor of Soft Computing, an International Springer-Verlag Journal.

His current research interests focus on merging soft computing and agent technology to design technologically complex environments, with particular interest in Web Intelligence applications. He is chair of the Task Force "Intelligent Agents" of Emergent Technologies Technical Committee (ETTC), IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. He is also member of the International Technical Committee on Media Computing, IEEE Systems, Man and Cybernetics Society. From 2000, Dr. Loia has been involved as member of Program Committee for over 30 international conferences by IEEE Society.