Worked as a Lecturer and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Bournemouth University; Research Associate for NCCA (National Centre for Computer Animation) in the UK; Research Visitor at UCL (University College London) Mullard Laboratory; Postdoc at INAF, IASF Palermo, and the University of Palermo; Principal Investigator of an EU-funded project; AI Scientist at IULM AI Lab, teaching 'AI Laboratory' and 'Data Mining and Text Analytics', February 2023 - May 2023; Assistant Professor at Humanitas University, Department of Biomedical Sciences, May 2022 - February 2023; Collaborator - Software Engineer at Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale Della Sicilia, January 2015 - June 2015.
Education
PhD in Computer Engineering from the University of Palermo, January 2009 - April 2012.
Background
Research interests include image processing, computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning, etc. Currently an Associate Professor of Computer Science at IULM University, Milan.
Miscellany
Served as Academic Editor for International Journal of Biomedical Imaging, Guest Editor for Frontiers in Robotics and AI, and Guest Editor for Frontiers in Computer Science.