Roberto Navigli is an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science of the Sapienza University of Rome. He is the first Italian recipient of an ERC Starting Grant in computer science and informatics on multilingual word sense disambiguation (2011-2016), a co-PI of a Google Focused Research Award on Natural Language Understanding and a partner of the LIDER EU project. His research lies in the field of Natural Language Processing (including multilingual word sense disambiguation and induction, multilingual entity linking, large-scale knowledge acquisition, ontology learning from scratch, open information extraction and relation extraction).