Leila De Floriani Biography

Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell'Informazione

Leila De Floriani is Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Computer and Information Science (DISI) of the University of Genova since 1990, where she has founded the Geometric Modeling and Computer Graphics group.

She received the Laurea degree in Mathematics from the University of Genova in 1977.
From 1977 to 1981 she has been a Research Associate at the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Italian National Research Council, Genova, Italy, and from 1981 to 1982 an Assistant Professor of Computer Scienceat the University of Genova. From 1982 to 1990 she has been a Senior Scientist at the Institute of Applied Mathematics of the Italian National Research Council
In 1981 she was a visiting associate professor at the Departmentof Computer Science of the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE (USA). Between 1985 and 1989 she has been a visiting scientist at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (USA). In 1998-99 and in 2002 she has been visiting professor at the Computer Science Department and at the Institute forApplied Computer Studies (UMIACS) of the University of Maryland, CollegePark, MD (USA).

Leila De Floriani has written over 170 technical publications on the subjects of geometric modeling, computer graphics, algorithms and data structures for spatial data handling and graph-theoretic data structures. Her former contributions include hierarchical modular boundary models for CAD applications, graph-based techniques for form feature extraction and surface modeling with triangle meshes. Her present research interests include multiresolution modeling, geometric algorithms and data structures for applications to Scientific Data Visualization, Solid Modeling, Geographic Information Systems and Computer Vision (see Geometric Modeling and Computer Graphics group home page) .

She has received several research grants fromthe National Research Council of Italy (CNR), from the Italian Ministry of Science and Scientific and Technological Research (MURST), and from the European Community to perform research in the above areas. She has been the national coordinator of a project funded by MURST on "Representing and Processing Spatial Data in Geographic Information Systems" (2001-2002). She is currently involved in the Research Training Network MINGLE (Multiresolution in Geometric Modeling) and in the national MURST project MACROGeo (Algorithmic and Computational Methods for Geometric Object Representation).

Leila De Floriani has been a Member of the Program Committeeof several international conferences in the areas of computer graphics and geometric modeling, image analysis, spatial data processingand Geographic Information Systems, including IEEE Visualization Conference, International Conference on Shape Modeling and Applications, ACM Symposium on Solid Modeling and Applications, Eurographics, ACM - Eurographics Symposium on Geometry Processing, Eurographics - IEEE TCVG Symposium on Visualization, International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), International Conference on 3D Data Processing and Trasmission. International Conferenceon Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP), International Workshop on Visual Form, International Conference on Spatial Information Theory (COSIT), International Symposium on Large Spatial Databases (SSD), ACM Workshop on GISs, International Conference on Spatial Data Handling, International Conference on Geographic Information Science (GIS Science), She has been General Chairperson of the Eighth International Conferenceon Image Analysis and Processing.

She has been a member of the Editorial Board of Computer Aided Design" and of the "International Journal of Geographic Information Science"and she is currently a member of the Editorial Board of"GeoInformatica".