ELLIS Scholar; Member of ELLIS Society since July 2021; Associate Professor Habilitation for Computer Science (01/B1) from MIUR, Aug 2018 - Aug 2027; Associate Professor Habilitation for Computer Engineering (09/H1) from MIUR, Jul 2018 - Jul 2027; Served as Area Chair for ACM MultiMedia and British Machine Vision Conference multiple times.
Research Experience
Visiting Scholar at Silvio Savarese Laboratory (University of Michigan, now at Stanford) from February 2013 to August 2013. PostDoc at Visual Information and Media Lab, Media Integration and Communication Center, University of Florence until January 2018.
Education
PhD in Computer Engineering, 2012, University of Florence (Supervisor: Prof. Alberto Del Bimbo); MEng in Artificial Intelligence, 2008, University of Florence.
Background
Assistant Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Florence. Research interests include Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Deep Learning, and Information Retrieval. Focuses on deep learning applications in computer vision and robotics, with an emphasis on generative AI, model uncertainty, and robustness.
Miscellany
Member of UNIMORE ELLIS Unit; Co-founder and Scientific Advisor of Small Pixels, a startup working on video processing and compression.