Post-Doctoral fellowship in computer science and signal/image processing, Department of Biophysical & Electronic Engineering (DIBE), University of Genova, 1993 - 1995.

Dottorato di Ricerca (Ph.D.) in Electronic Engineering & Computer Science, University of Genova, 1992 (topics in Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Signal/Image Processing).

Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering, University of Genoa, 1989 (summa cum laude).

Evaluator of research project proposals and project reviewer for the European Commission related to the IV, V, VI and VII Framework Programmes, namely:

• Competitive Growth and Sustainable Development
  
• Marine Science & Technology (MAST III)
• Industrial and Material Technology (BRITE-EURAM III)
• ESPRIT Long Term Research (LTR).
• ICT
• Security
  

Referee for international scientific journals:

• Proceedings of the IEEE
• IEEE Computer
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
• IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
• IEEE Journal on Oceanic Engineering
• Computer Vision and Image Understanding
• Optical Engineering
• International Journal on Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence
• Pattern Recognition Letters
• Pattern Recognition
• International Journal on Computer Vision
• Signal Processing
• Journal of Franklin Institute
• Electronics Letters
• Acta Acustica
• IEE Proceedings: Radar, Sonar, and Navigation
• Pattern Analysis and Applications
• Geoinformatica

• IAPR Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition
• IEEE Int. Conf. on Image Processing
• Int. Conf. on Image Processing: Theory and Applications
• Int. Conf. on Quality Control by Artificial Vision
• Int. Conf. on Image Analysis & Processing ICIAP
• IEEE Int. Conf. on Industrial Electronics, Control and Instrumentation IECON
• IEEE OCEANS
• 7th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence ICTAI ’95

Associate Editor of the following journals:

• Computer Vision and Image Understanding (since 2014)
• Pattern Recognition (since 1999)
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (since 1999)
• Pattern Analysis and Applications (since 2004)
• Machine Vision and Applications (since 2006)
• ELCVIA, Electronic Letters on Computer Vision and Image Analysis (from 2001 to 2010)

Guest Co-Editor of special issues on:

• Underwater Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, 2000.
• Artificial Neural Networks for Image Analysis and Computer Vision, Image and Vision Computing, 2001.
• 3-D Image Analysis and Modeling, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics - Part B: Cybernetics, 2003.
• Similarity-based Pattern Recognition, Pattern Recognition, 2006.
• Learning in Non-(geo)metric Spaces, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, 2016.
• Image and Video Understanding in Big Data, 2016. Computer Vision and Image Understanding. On going.
• Language in Vision, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, On going.

Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering IEEE (1990 - now), IEEE Senior Member since 2002
Member of the International Association on Pattern Recognition IAPR (1991 - now), IAPR Fellow since 2006

Assistant in teaching several graduate courses in the context of the laurea in Electronic Engineering and Computer and Information Science as expert in the related fields (see Teaching).

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Last revision: 31 March 2016