Roberto Navigli is Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science at the University "La Sapienza" in Rome.

His research focuses on Natural Language Processing, including Word Sense Disambiguation, Knowledge Acquisition, Ontology Learning, Semantic Information Retrieval, the Semantic Web and its applications.

He is a Visiting Fellow at CAS in January 2015 upon invitation from Prof. Dr. Hinrich Schütze (CAS Senior Researcher in Residence 2014/15).