Giancarlo Ruffo, Ph.D, is Associate Professor of Computer Science at the University of Turin, Italy, and Adjunct Professor at Schools of Informatics and Computing, Indiana University. His current research interests fall in the multidisciplinary research area of computational social science, with particular focus on data science, complex networks, and network analysis. He also investigated research problems on web and data mining, recommendation systems, social media, distributed applications, peer-to-peer systems, security, and micro-payment schemes. He is the principal investigator of ARCS group http://arcs.di.unito.it, and he has several research projects. He has published about 50 peer-reviewed papers in international journals and conferences.  Aside his academic work, he has been involved in many other professional activities as free-lance consultant in the last 20 years. In 2013 he co-founded NetAtlas s.r.l., a start-up company specialized in mobile application development and social media services design and analysis. In 2015 he also co-founded Quaerys s.r.l. another start-up offering social media analytics and sentiment analyis services.