Activities

Full Professor (INF/01) at the Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Computer Science.Since 2001. Assistant Professor in the same Department from 2001 to 2015 and Associate Professor from 2015 to 2022.

Graduation in Computer Science on 14/07/1988 at University of Salerno, Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, with a score of 110/110 cum laude and a thesis with title : "Structures and visual languages." In the thesis various approaches to image segmentation were analyzed, with particular reference to techniques of structural type.

The research topics focus on the study of Biometric systems (face, iris, multibiometric systems), Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, and Human-Machine Interaction, particularly issues of accessibility and multimodal interaction, and formerly e-learning and personalized teaching.

Main achievements:

Co-Editor-in-Chief of Pattern Recognition Letters by Elsevier (formerly Associate Editor from 2015 and Area Editor up to 2019) - Q1, IF 3.756

Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Indentity Science

Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition - Q1, IF 7.740

Area Editor of IEEE Biometrics Compendium (online) created by IEEE Biometrics Council

Editor in Chief since April 2018 of IEEE Biometrics Newsletter (formerly member of the Editorial Commitee)

Vice-President from 2018 of IEEE ISBCC BIO46 Italy Chapter - IEEE Italy Section Biometrics Council Chapter

IEEE Senior member

Coordination of the following research activities:

• Work Package WP5 - Standards for e-learning in the EU project QUIS, QUality, Interoperability and Standards in e-learning (e-learning Project, starting Feb 2005)

• Rome Unit for the project FIRB 2009 "E-learning, deafness, written language, a bridge of letters and signs for the knowledge society", code RBNE074T5L

• University Project 2010 "Icara: using a mobile information system with functions of Context Aware Augmented Reality"

• University Project 2011 "Moving Icara"

  • Scientific co-responsible of the multidisciplinary University project 2014 “The Emergence of Modern Subjectivity, 1680-1760: A Digital Analysis”

  • Coordinator of the Rome Unit for the project PRIN 2015 COSMOS, coordinated by University of Salerno

  • Coordinator of the University Project 2017 "Biometric Walk Recognizer: Recognizing people from recorded gait signal"

Participation in the following research activities:

• FIRB 2003-2006: Web-Minds (Wide-Scale, Broadband, Middleware for Network Distributed Services)

• UnderstandIT European project (EU Leonardo Project, starting Oct 2010 - PROJECT NUMBER - 2010-1-NO1-LEO05-01839)

• Research activity from January 2009 to September 2009 awarded by the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Salerno, "Design, implementation and validation of advanced interfaces for RFID applications" as part of the research project "Value Go - design, implementation, and validation of a framework for the analysis and fusion of mono and bidimensional signals for food traceability ".

Supervisor of the PHD students in Computer Science Fabrizio Borgia (27 ° cycle, in co-tutoring with Prof. Patrice Dalle from the University Paul Sabatier - Tolouse III) and Daniele Cipriani (28° cycle)

Supervisor of the PhD students Alessio Mecca and Bodor Almubaddel (31-st cycle)

Member of the BIPLab at University of Salerno, and collaboration with:

• Prof. Harry Wechsler - George Mason University - Virginia - USA

• Prof. Jean-Luc Dugelay - Eurecom - France

• Prof. Modesto Castrillon-Santana - Las Palmas de Gran Canaria - Spain

• Prof. Yuri Matveev - ITMO University - St. Petersburg

Scientific coordinator of the Framework Agreement between Sapienza and St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics And Optics (ITMO University) – from July 2017

Scientific coordinator of the Executive Protocol between the Department of Computer Science of Sapienza and the Department of Speech Information Systems of St. Petersburg National Research University of Information Technologies, Mechanics And Optics (ITMO University) – from September 2017

Editorial activities, review and conference organization:

Associated editor of the Journal of Pattern Recognition In Geosciences (JPRG)

Co-Editor with S. Levialdi and E. Panizzi of the Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces - AVI 2002. In cooperation with ACM-SIGCHI, ACM-SIGMM, SIGCHI Italy. Trento, Italy, May 2002

Guest Editor with G. Vitiello of Volume 20 N. 5 of the Journal of Visual Languages and Computing, Special Issue on Multimodal Interaction Through Haptic Feedback, October 2009

Co-program chair of the conference and co-editor of the Proceedings of International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods (ICPRAM) from 2013

Guest Co-Editor with Michael Nappi (University of Salerno) and Hugo Proenca (University of Beira Interior - Portugal) of the two Special Issues of the journal Pattern Recognition Letters on Mobile Iris Challenge Evaluation (MICHE I and II)

Guest Co-Editor with Maria Frucci (CNR - Naples - Italy) and Daniel Riccio (University of Naples Federico II - Italy) of the Special Issues of the journal Pattern Recognition Letters on An insight on eye biometrics

Editor with Michele Nappi (University of Salerno) and Massimo Tistarelli (University of Sassari) of the book titled "Face recognition in adverse conditions" published by IGI Global in 2014

Editor with Michele Nappi (University of Salerno) and Hugo Proenca (University of Beira Interior - Portugal) of the book titled “Human Recognition in Outdoor Unconstrained Environments - Using Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning Methods for Biometrics” published by Elsevier – Academic Press. 2017

... more in the complete CV ...

Referee for the following international journals:

• Journal of Computing and Information Technology

• IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering

• Image and Vision Computing Journal

• Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

• International Journal of Human-Computer Studies

• International Journal of Computers and Applications

• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part A

• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics - Part C

• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security

• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing

Program co-Chair of CHItaly 2015, the biannual comference of the Italian Chapter of ACM SIG CHI

General co-chair of the special session Biometric Systems: Theory and Applications (BSTA) at ICPRAM 2013

General co-chair of the Workshop on Multimodal Interaction Through Haptic Feedback-MITH 2008 at AVI 2008

Member of the Program Commitee of several editions of many international conferences including the following :

• Interaction Design for Children - IDC

• Interact

• AVI

• Didamatica

• Eurographics Italian Chapter Conference

• IEEE Workshop on Biometric Measurements and Systems for Security and Medical Applications

• IEEE Globecom - Communication and Information System Security Symposium

• Emerging Security Technologies Conference - EST

• ICB . International Conference on Biometrics

• IJCB - International Joint Conference on Biometrics

Member of the organizing committee for the following international conferences

• AVI Trento 2002 (Co-editor and Scientific Secretariat)

• AVI 2004 Bari (Short Papers & Posters Chair)

• AVI 2006 Venice (Short Papers & Posters Chair)

• AVI 2012 Capri (Publicity Chair)

• BioMS 2012 (Publication Chair)

... more in my complete CV ...

Member of IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), GIRPR (Italian Group of Researchers in Pattern Recognition), INSTICC (Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication )

A list of publications is available by connecting to DBLP here ... but here too ... (and for the very complete list look for the CV ...)