Giovanna Castellano

Short CV

Giovanna Castellano is a Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Bari Aldo Moro, where she coordinates the Computational Intelligence Lab. Her research interests are in the area of Computational Intelligence and Computer Vision. 

She is the Coordinator of the PhD program in Informatics and Mathematics at the University of Bari Aldo Moro.

She has been responsible for the local unit of several research projects. She is the PI of the project NEED - Next-Gen Digital Diagnostics: Bridging AI Explainability and Medical Trust. Cascade call of the PNC project entitled "D3 4 Health-Digital Driven Diagnostics, prognostics and therapeutics for sustainable Health care" Spoke Leader 3 "Wearable technologies, sensors and biomarkers for care through Digital Twin approaches". She was the PI of the WP 6.4 "Understandability of AI systems" in the NRRP "FAIR - Future Artificial Intelligence Research" project, Spoke 6 - Symbiotic AI. 

She is an Associate Editor of several international journals. She has been a Guest Editor of special issues and participated in organizing scientific events. She is a reviewer for several international journals published by leading publishers, including Elsevier, IEEE, and Springer, and a member of the program committee of several international conferences. She is a member of the IEEE Society, EUSFLAT Society, INDAM-GNCS Society, IAPR Technical Committee 19 (Computer Vision for Cultural Heritage Applications), CINI-AIIS laboratory, CINI-BIG DATA laboratory, CITEL telemedicine research center, GRIN, MIR laboratories.