Francesca Bovolo  is presently a Post Doc with the Remote Sensing Laboratory at the Dipartimento di Ingegneria e Scienza dell'Informazione (Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science), University of Trento, Italy.

She received the "Laurea" (B.S.), the "Laurea Specialistica" (M.S.) degrees in telecommunication engineering (summa cum laude) and the Ph.D. in Communication and Information Technologies from the University of Trento, Italy, in 2001, 2003 and 2006, respectively.

She has been a research fellow at the Grupo de Procesado Digital de Senales (GPDS), Departament d'Enginyeria Electronica, Universitat de Valencia, Spain (February 2007 - May 2008).

She is mainly interested in the area of remote-sensing image processing; in particular, her interests are related to:

• Remote sensing.

• Image and signal processing.

• Analysis of multitemporal images.

• Change detection.

• Machine learning.

• Pattern recognition.

• Signal processing. 

• Neurobiological signals.

She conducts (conducted) research on these topics within the frameworks of several national and international projects:

• COSMO-SkyMed- Development and validation of multitemporal image analysis methodologies for multirisk monitoring of critical structures and infrastructures. (Italian Space Agency) [2009-2011]

• Advanced techniques for remote sensing image processing and recognition (ITPAR – India-Trento Program for Advanced Research) phase 2 [2008-2013];

• IIM-TS - Image Information Mining in Time Series - European Space Agency [2007-2010];

• LIMES – Land and see integrated monitoring for European security (Integrated Project FP6-2005- European Union) [2006-2009];

• HYPERKERNEL - Development of advanced semi-supervised kernel methods for classification of hyperspectral remote sensing images (MIUR - Italian Ministry of the Education, Research and University, Integrated Actions Italy-Spain) [2006-2009];

• Development and validation of novel data fusion techniques for environmental remote sensing (MIUR - Italian Ministry of the Education, Research and University [2006-2007];

• Advanced techniques for remote sensing image processing and recognition (ITPAR – India-Trento Program for Advanced Research) phase 1 [2004-2007];

• Processing and Analysis of Multitemporal and Hypertemporal Remote Sensing images for Environmental Monitoring (MIUR - Italian Ministry of the Education, Research and University) [2003-2004];

• Services for the Kyoto Protocol Verification (ESA - European Space Agency) [2002-2005].
  

Dr. Francesca Bovolo is Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing (JSTARS) a publication of the IEEE Geoscience & Remote Sensing Society.

She serves as a referee for the IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, the IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems, the International Journal of Remote Sensing, Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition Letters, Remote Sensing of Environment, Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing, Journal of Information Fusion, ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, and Sensors.

She has served on the Scientific Committees of several international conferences.

She ranked first place in the Student Prize Paper Competition of the 2006 IEEE International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (Denver, August 2006), she is co-supervisor of the Master Thesis “A novel multilevel technique robust to registration noise for change detection in very high resolution remote sensing images” by Silvia Marchesi, which won (first place) the Eugenio Zilioli Prize for the best Italian Master Thesis on Remote Sensing in 2007 and she is co-supervisor of the Master Thesis “A novel method for change detection in very high geometrical resolution images based on multilevel parcels and hierarchical MRF” by Wael Abdel Jaber, which won the IEEE-GRS South Italy Chapter Prize for the best Italian Master Thesis on Remote Sensing in 2009.

Since 2005 she strongly collaborates with the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, and the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) and the Jadavpur University (JU), Kolkata, within the ITPAR – India-Trento Program for Advanced Research. 

She has been invited as a teacher at:

• the International Ph. D. Summer School on “Very High Resolution Remote Sensing”, Grenoble, France, September 8-12, 2008. Lecture on “Change Detection In Multitemporal Very High Resolution Images”.
• the Tutorial course on “Methods in Remote Sensing Digital Image Processing and Classification”, for the part related to Change Detection in SAR Images, within the XIV SBSR Brasilian Remote Sensing Symposium, Natal–RN, Brasil, April 25-30, 2009.

She has been teaching assistant for Comunicazioni Elettriche 2 (Digital communication systems) and Sistemi di Telerilevamento (Remote sensing systems) courses, Bachelor in Telecommunication Engineering and co-supervisor of several theses of bachelor and master students on remote sensing topics.

She has been Member of the Board of reviewers for Ph. D. Dissertation “Cloud screening algorithm for MERIS and CHRIS multispectral sensros”, by Luis Gómez Chova, University of Valencia, Spain, 2007.
She has been invited as external expert member of the committee for Master thesis dissertation, University of Lausanne, Swiss, 2009.

She is a member if IEEE and CNIT.