He participated in the 3rd International Planning Competition (2002) with LPG, a planner developed with Professor Alfonso Gerevini that was awarded for "Distinguished performance of the first order"; he participated in the 4th International Planning Competition (2004) with LPG-td, a planner developed with Professor Alfonso Gerevini and Ing. Alessandro Saetti that was awarded for its performance in temporal and numeric domains. He was Senior Member of the Program Committee of IJCAI-11 (International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence) and Co-chair with Neil Yorke-Smith (American University of Beirut, Lebanon and SRI International, USA) of the ICAPS-2010 Exhibits and Demonstrations Session and with Marco Maratea of RCRA17. Currently, he is Associate Editor of AI Communications and Member of the Program Committees of AAAI 2021, ICAPS 2021 and co-chair of IPS2020 and SOCS2021. Ivan Serina is author or co-author of more than 70 published reviewed papers in various fields of Artificial Intelligence.