Francesca Odone

Personal details

Place and date of birth: Genova, December 15th 1971
Nationality: Italian
Marital status: married to Alberto, one child, Emma

Current position

Ricercatore Confermato INF/01, Università degli Studi di Genova, DIBRIS, Dipartimento di Informatica, Bioingegneria, Robotica e Ingegneria dei Sistemi

Education

April 1997: Laurea degree (cum laude) in Information Science at the Università di Genova; advisor: Prof. A. Verri.
February 2002: PhD in Computer Science at the Università di Genova; advisor: Prof. A. Verri

Positions

• June-December 1997: Research Associate at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (UK)
• November 1998 - December 2001: PhD student at DISI, Università di Genova
• February 1999 - February 2000: Visiting student at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (UK) with a EU Marie Curie Training and Mobility Reasearch grant.
• April-June 2002: Research Assistant (assegnista) DISI, Università di Genova
• July 2002-July 2005: Ricercatore INFM (Istituto Nazionale di Fisica della Materia)
• August-December 2005: Research Assistant (assegnista) Dipartimento Matematica, Università di Ferrara

Project coordination

• 2007-2008: Regione Liguria - PSTL Studio di fattibilità di un sistema di riconoscimento biometrico facciale (A feasibility study for a biometric face recognition system)
• 2007-2008: Regione Liguria - PSTL Ottimizzazione della procedura di acquisizione di Immagini Whole Body in Risonanza Magnetica (Optimization of the acquisition procedure for Magnetic Resonance Whole Body Images)
• 2008-2010: VII FP EU - SP4 Capacities Research for SMEs - VIT Vision for Innovative Transport. RTD coordinator
• 2009-2010:Fondazione Carige "Study and development of low cost video-based systems to support visually impaired users"
• 2009-2010:Distretto Tecnologico Liguria SIIT. Fondazione Carige "SINTESIS: Sistema INTEgrato per la Sicurezza ad Intelligenza diStribuita"
• 2012-2015: VII FP EU - IP "SAFEPOST: reuse and development of security knowledge assets for International Postal supply chains". Scientific contact person.

Contracts

• Thales Alenia spa. Technology transfer on image processing methods for EDL
• Gigavision srl. Technology transfer on computer vision algorithms for embedded systems

Teaching

I teach Introduction to Programming and for the First Degree in Computer Science and Signal and Image Processing for the Master Degree on Computer Science. Between 2005 and 2010 I thought Computer Vision for the First Degree and Master Degree courses in Computer Science.

Recently I held two PhD courses on theory and applications of Statistical Learning: Dottorato Europeo in Tecnologie dell'Informazione, ARCES, Università di Bologna (2007) and Dottorato in ''Scienze e Tecnologie per l'Informazione e la Conoscenza" Università degli Studi di Genova (since 2008), the latter with Lorenzo Rosasco.

PhD students

Present: Giovanni Fusco and Luca Zini, PhD students in Computer Science both sponsored by a Regione Liguria research grant; Sean Fanello and Alessandro Rudi (co-advisor with Giorgio Metta) PhD students in Life and Humanoid Technologies (IIT)
Past: Nicoletta Noceti "Learning to classify visual dynamic cues". PhD in Computer Science