He received a Laurea in Mathematics from the University of Genova, Italy, in March 1986. From April 1986 to October 1998 he has been research assistant (until November 1988), and research scientist (from December 1988) at the Institute for Applied Mathematics of the National Research Council of Italy. From November 1998 to October 2000 he has been associate professor at DISI. In different periods, between 1989 and 1992, he has been visiting researcher at the Center for Automation Research of the University of Maryland.
Enrico Puppo has written over 100 technical publications on the subjects of algorithms and data structures for spatial data handling, geometric modeling, computational geometry, parallel algorithms, and image processing. His current research interests are in multiresolution modeling, geometric algorithms and data structures, with applications to computer aided geometric design, computer graphics, Geographical Information Systems, scientific visualization, and computer vision.
Enrico Puppo is a member of ACM, Eurographics, IEEE, and International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR).