About me

You can find the updated CV here.

Teaching

• Master course, Introduction to Machine Learning, Feburary 2024 @ University of Trento!

• PhD course, Bringing Perception to Social Robots: An introductory course, May 2022 @ University of Trento!

• I was the Teaching Assistant @ School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, QMUL (Oct 2013 to Dec 2017) for:

  • Introduction to Computer Vision (54 enrolled students)

  • Data Mining (154 enrolled students)

  • Machine Learning (75 enrolled students)

PhD Students

Master Students

• Benedetta Liberatori, Unsupervised video anomaly detection, Univeristy of Trieste, Sep 2021 - Dec 2021

• Nicola Dall'Asen, Face anonymisation in CCTV videos, University of Trento, March 2021 - Sept 2021

Examiner

PhD examiner of Christian Joppi, University of Verona, June 2022

Research Collaboration

I collaborate closely with the following universities and institutions via PhD co-supervision.   

Other Research Activities

• Reviewer for Journals: IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (TPAMI), IEEE Transactions on Image Processing (TIP), Journal of Signal, Image and Video Processing, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), IEEE Transactions on Robotics (TRO), International Journal of Computer Vision (IJCV), Journal of Computer Vision and Image Understanding (CVIU), IEEE Transactions on Human Machine Interactions, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia (ToMM), Neurocomputing Journal

• Reviewer for Conferences: Int’l Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIP), Winter Conf. on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV), European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV), Int’l Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV), Int’l Conf. on Learning Representations (ICLR), Int’l Joint Conf. on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI), Int’l Conf. on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), Int’l Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), Int’l Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP), IEEE/RSJ Int’l Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

• Organisational commitments: 

  • Area Chair of European Conf. on Computer Vision (ECCV) @Milan 2024

  • Associate Editor of IEEE Int’l Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2024 @Yokohama

  • Lead Guest Editor of Special Issue “Social and Cognitive Interactions in the Open World” in International Journal of Social Robotics (SORO) (2023 - ongoing)

  • Co-organiser of workshop “Social and Cognitive Interactions for Assistive Robotics (SCIAR)” in IEEE/RSJ Int’l Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2022 @Kyoto

  • Lead organiser of special session “Edge-Fog-Cloud machine learning for smart cities applications” in European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO) 2022 @Belgrade