Alberto Maria Metelli is an Assistant Professor with the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB) in the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Laboratory (AIRLab) at Politecnico di Milano (PoliMi). He obtained the Ph.D. in Information Technology (cum Laude) in March 2021 at Politecnico di Milano defending a thesis about environment configuration in reinforcement learning, awarded the “Premio NeoDottori di Ricerca Marco Cadoli 2021” as the best Italian Ph.D. thesis in Artificial Intelligence (from AIxIA) and recently published in the book series “Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications” (FAIA). He is co-founder of ML Cube S.r.l., an innovative start-up, providing cutting-edge solutions for machine learning systems and life-cycle-management optimization. His main research interests revolve around artificial intelligence and machine learning for sequential decision-making, in particular reinforcement learning (RL). He is currently working on theoretical and algorithmic aspects of RL in configurable environments, off-policy RL, inverse RL, automated RL, and RL in structured environments. He participates in research projects about reinforcement learning for autonomous driving, for defense, and about machine learning for climate science. He is also interested in algorithms, optimization, statistics, probability, and recommendation systems.postdoctoral