Author of over 140 publications in international journals and conferences; serves as an Associate Editor for Computer Vision and Image Understanding and Pattern Recognition; acts as an Area Chair for ICCV and major multimedia conferences; a Scholar in the ELLIS society (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems) and coordinates the Modena ELLIS Unit; involved in projects such as the MINERVA EU project, PRIN projects 'MUCES - a Multimedia platform for Content Enrichment and Search in audiovisual archives' and 'MUSMA: Multimedia Understanding meets Social Media Analysis'; received EuroHPC Extreme Scale grant for the project 'VISTA - Versatile Intelligent Systems for Tailored and Adaptive Next-Generation Multimodal AI'; multiple papers accepted to NeurIPS 2025, BMVC 2025, ICCV 2025, CVPR 2025, etc.
Research Experience
Since 2024, an Associate Professor at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia; since 2021, Deputy Director at the Interdepartmental Center on Digital Humanities at the same university; worked at the Facebook AI Research laboratory in Paris in 2017, developing a video-matching algorithm for detecting abusive content on social networks.
Background
Research interests include Deep Learning, Vision-and-Language integration, Large-Scale models and Multimedia. Teaches courses in 'Computer Vision and Cognitive Systems,' Scalable AI, and Computer Architecture.