Emanuele Panizzi is an Associate Professor in Computer Science at Sapienza University of Rome, Italy. He leads a research team focusing on human-computer interaction, app design, gamification, and context-aware mobile interaction. In the two areas of smart parking and earthquake detection, his current study uses AI to recognize users' behavior and context. Designing mobile user interfaces with implicit interaction and crowdsensing applications is the experimental component of this study.

Panizzi supervised several large software projects for Sapienza University and companies and startups.

He teaches HCI and software architecture. He has served as a consultant for major national and international corporations.