[4][2] In 1992, he was the director of the Generative Design Laboratory, which he founded with his colleague Enrica Colabella, at the Polytechnic University of Milan.
[4] In addition to his scholarship, Soddu began organizing and directing the International Generative Art Conference in 1998.
[2][3][6] In 2002, he worked with the European Commission's Asia program to establish an international network of generative design labs in Milan, Eindhoven, Kassel, Shanghai, and Tianjin.
[4][2] In 2020 and 2021, he worked on a reconstruction proposal for Notre Dame after its spire was destroyed in a 2019 fire using generative design.
[7] Soddu has presented his research internationally, including at the Hong Kong Museum of Art in Hong Kong, the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles, the Italian Embassy in Beijing, and the Palazzo dei Giureconsulti in Milan,[2] and has written books in both Italian and English.