Scholar
Dario Zanca
Google Scholar ID: KjwaSXkAAAAJ
Head of Applied Machine Learning Group @ MaD Lab, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Citations & Impact
Citations
687
H-index
16
i10-index
23
Publications
20
Co-authors
42
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- - Published 50+ peer-reviewed papers, many in top international journals and A* conferences.
- - Awarded by the Emergent Talent Initiative in 2023 and by the EELISA Community Engagement initiatives in 2022 and 2021.
- - Received a special mention at the "Marco Cadoli" award for the best Italian doctoral thesis in 2020.
- - Won first prize at the "Hackathon Soccer Data Challenge" and at the "Hackathon Mediaset Infinity".
- - Best seminar of the FAU Technical Faculty based on students' evaluations in 2024 for the AI&Eye-tracking seminar.
Research Experience
- - Group Head of the Applied Machine Learning Workgroup at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany.
- - Postdoc at the Neurosense Lab, Siena, Italy.
- - Co-organized the NeurIPS GMML 2023 Workshop, ICIAP AGAVE 2023 Workshop, and WACV GMCV 2025 Workshop.
Education
- - Ph.D. in Smart Computing from the University of Florence, supervised by Prof. Marco Gori, dissertation: "Toward Laws of Visual Attention".
- - Visiting Ph.D. student at the Caltech Vision Lab, supervised by Prof. Pietro Perona.
- - M.Sc. and B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Palermo, Italy.
- - Visiting M.Sc. student at the University of Szczecin, Poland, and at the Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías Intelixentes, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
Background
- - Research Interests: Deep learning and computational cognitive sciences, focusing on human-inspired computer vision, robustness, and applications.
- - Professional Field: Group Head of the Applied Machine Learning Workgroup at the Machine Learning and Data Analytics Lab, FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. ELLIS member since 2023. Previously, a postdoc at the Neurosense Lab, Department of Medicine, Surgery, and Neuroscience, Siena, Italy.
Miscellany
- - Teaching: Responsible for the mandatory lecture on Machine Learning for Time Series (500+ students) and the elective seminar on AI & Eye-Tracking at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg.
- - Teaches the Ph.D. course at the University of Siena on "Bridging Human and Machine Vision".
- - Previously taught Programming for Data Science (University of Siena, Italy), Databases (Fondazione Vita, Siena, Italy), and Programming for the Web (Camera di Commercio, Arezzo, Italy).
- - Led, supervised, or contributed to projects in collaboration with major companies such as Siemens Healthineers, Nuremberg Zoo, Stabilo, Schaeffler, Deutsches Museum, Expert.AI.
- - Organized two editions of the Pint of Science (Nuremberg), was a scientific animator at Palermo Scienza, and an invited speaker at several public events.
- - Publishes a podcast series on AI-related topics.
