Erik Cambria received his BSc and MSc cum laude in Electronic Engineering from the University of Genoa, in 2005 and 2008 respectively.

In 2006 he worked in Greece as multimedia research team leader at Archipelagos Aigaiou in the fields of e-learning, web development and e-games.

In 2007 Erik studied in Barcelona at Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya and worked as web designer at Wamba.com in Palma de Mallorca.

In 2008 he was a research fellow at DIBE-ELIOS Lab in the areas of e-culture, social networking and e-tourism.

Today Erik lives in Scotland and works at Sitekit Labs. Since January 2009 he is a PhD student at University of Stirling and collaborates with Sitekit Solutions Ltd. and MIT Media Lab for the development of future semantic web applications.

Erik is also an EPSRC researcher, a LNCS author, a member of the COST International Scientific Committee and a recognised teacher of the University of Stirling in the Department of Computing Science & Maths.



Erik can speak Italian, fluent English (CAE certificate issued by Cambridge University) and Spanish (DELE certificate issued by Instituto Cervantes), basic French and Greek, and even some Catalan and Gaelic!

His favourite research fields are: Common Sense Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Semantic Networks, Natural Language Processing, Knowledge Base Management, Software Agents, Knowledge Acquisition, Emotion and Affective UI, Multimodality.

Erik’s main interests are: science and technology, travelling, motorcycling,
boxing, snowboarding, football, swimming, beach volley, mountain biking, hockey, paintballing, typical food, coffee, cooking, djembe, bagpiping, traditional dances.