Dr. Gabriele Valentini is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA. He holds a B.Sc. and a M.Sc. in Engineering of Computing Systems from Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, and a Ph.D. in Sciences of Engineering and Technologies from Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium. His doctoral dissertation has been awarded the 2016 distinguished dissertation award from the European association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) and the 2015 Best Student Video Award from the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI). Dr. Valentini focuses on understanding and designing mechanisms for collective decision making and collective behavior both in artificial and living collectives.