Resume
I was born in Como (the city of Lake Como, Italy's deepest lake) in June 1979. I hold a M.Sc. (Laurea) in Computer Science Engineering (Ingegneria Informatica) and a PhD in Information Science Engineering (major in video coding). You can find more details about me at the following:
A snapshot of my education, professional affiliations and activities is listed in the following.
Current position
Lead Video Codec Engineer at Audinate
Education
From January 2006 to April 2009
Ph.D. student at the Technical University of Milan (Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Advisor Professor Stefano Tubaro) with a scholarship granted by ST Microelectronics
From September 1998 to July 2005
“Laurea” degree (final mark 95/100) (a five-year program that combines undergraduate studies and Masters) in Computer Science and Engineering at the Technical University of Milan, Italy
From September 1993 to July 1998
"Diploma" degree (final mark 56/60) in "Tecnico delle industrie elettriche e elettroniche per telecomunicazioni" at the IPSIA (now IIS) Luigi Ripamonti (now Da Vinci - Ripamonti), Como, Italy.
Affiliations
From February 2018 to January 2021
Principal Systems Engineer at DisplayLink - Cambridge, UK
From September 2011 to February 2018
Senior Technologist at the British Broadcasting Corporation - Research and Development (BBC R&D)
From February 2017 to October 2017
Visiting researcher at NHK Science and Technology Research Laboratories (STRL) in Tokyo
From May 2009 to September 2011
Post-doctoral researcher at the Multimedia Signal Processing Group (Lisbon section) of the Instituto de Telecomunicações
From March 2007 to September 2007
Visiting researcher at the Multimedia Signal Processing Group (Lisbon section) of the Instituto de Telecomunicações under the supervision of Professor Fernando Pereira
From July 2006 to April 2009
Collaboration with the Telecommunications and Signal Processing Group at the Università degli Studi di Udine (coordinated by Professor Roberto Rinaldo)
From February 2006 to February 2007
Collaboration with the Advanced System Technology (AST) laboratory of ST Microelectronics.
Professional activities
IEEE (Institute of the Electrical and Electronics Engineers): Student Member ('08), Member ('09) and Senior Member ('20)
UK delegate of the British Standards Institution (BSI), committee IST/37 - Coding of picture, audio, multimedia and hypermedia information (since 2011)
Associate and Senior Associate Editor (SAE) of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters (since 2016)
Special sessions chair of the 2021 Picture Coding Symposium (PCS)
Reviewer for the main IEEE conferences and journals in the image processing and video coding area