Dr Coraddu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Maritime and Transport Technology of Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands. He is visiting Professor in the Department of Naval Architecture, Ocean & Marine Engineering at the University of Strathclyde, UK. His relevant professional and academic experiences include working as Associate Professor at the University of Strathclyde, Research Associate at the School of Marine Science and Technology at Newcastle University, Research Engineer as part of the DAMEN R&D department based in Singapore, and serving as Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Genoa, where he was awarded a Laurea and a PhD in Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering. His primary research involves taking advantage of on-board data availability in assessing vessel performance, energy optimization, and real-time monitoring of the primary systems towards autonomous operations. Utilizing the latest learning algorithms and theoretical results in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning he is developing data-driven approaches to investigate the behaviour of complex on-board systems and their mutual interaction.