Pier Luca Lanzi was born in Turin, Italy, in 1967. He received the Laurea degree in computer science in 1994 from the Università degli Studi di Udine and the Ph.D. degree in Computer and Automation Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano in 1999.
He is an associate professor at the Politecnico di Milano, Dept. of Electronics and Information.
His research areas include genetic and evolutionary computation, reinforcement learning, and machine learning. He is interested in applications to data mining and autonomous agents. He is member of the editorial board of the “Evolutionary Computation Journal” and Editor in chief of SIGEVOlution, the ACM Newsletter of SIGEVO, the Special Interest Group on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation.