Date of birth       31/10/1960
Citizenship          Italian
Marital status     married to Daniela Cavallin, with two children Emanuele and Lorenzo

Curriculum Studiorum

Laurea in Theoretical Physics, Università di Genova. Summa cum laude (1984) 
Ph.D. in Physics, Università di Genova (1988) 

Academic Positions

Professor of Computer Science, Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell'Informazione, Università di Genova, 2000 - present
Ricercatore, Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell'Informazione, Università di Genova, 1998 - 1999
Ricercatore, Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Genova, 1989 - 1997

Visiting Positions

Visiting Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA (1986, summer 1988, and summer 1997)
Visiting Scientist, International Computer Science Institute, Berkeley CA (1992)
Visiting Scholar, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique - Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Systèmes Aléatoires, Rennes (summer 1994)
Visiting Scholar, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (summer and fall 1996)
Visiting Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA (fall 1998, fall 1999, and spring 2001)

Fellowships

Fairchild fellowship, MIT, Cambridge (1986)
NATO fellowship, MIT, Cambridge (1988)
Post-doctoral fellowship, International School for Advanced Studies, Trieste (1989)
CNR fellowship, ICSI, Berkeley CA (1992)
INRIA fellowship, INRIA-IRISA, Rennes (1994)
EPSRC fellowship, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (1996)

Research Activity

My scientific interests include learning theory, design and development of learning algorithms with applications in compuational biology, medical image processing, and computational methods for 2D and 3D computer vision problems. More on my research group can be found here.

I have published papers on stereopsis, motion analysis, modeling of motion perception, interpretation of 3D scenes, shape representation, object recognition, learning theory, learning algorithms, medical image processing, and extraction of knowledge from biological data. A list of my publications can be found here.

Teaching Activity

Over the years I tought undergraduate and graduate courses on topics like Signal and Control Theory, Information Theory, Introduction to Programming, Computer Vision and Statistical Learning, and I have been invited to give courses on Computer Vision and Statistical Learning at several National and International Advanced Schools. From 1998 to 2001 I taught Networks for Learning: Regression and Classification at MIT (with Tomaso Poggio).
I coauthored a textbook on Computer Vision (with Emanuele Trucco) published by Prentice Hall in 1998.
The list of my current and past PhD and master students can be found here.

Professional Activities

Past and present member of the Program Committee of the International Conference on Computer Vision, European Conference of Computer Vision, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and several other National and International Conferences and Workshops

Professional Duties

Chairman of the Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell'Informazione, 2006 -

Chairman of the Board of Department Chairmen of the University of Genova, 2008 - 2011

Director of the Center for Computational Learning, 2006 -

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Technology District on Intelligent Integrated Systems of the Regione Liguria, 2006 -

Member of the Board of Directors of ISICT (Institute of Advanced Studies in Information and Communication Technologies), 2006 -

Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Italian Association of Researchers in Computer Science (GRIN), 2003-2008

Member of the Board of Directors of the Science and Technology Park of the Regione Liguria, 2006 - 2008