Umberto Castellani is Associate Professor at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Verona. He received his Dottorato di Ricerca (PhD) in Computer Science from the University of Verona in 2003 working on 3D data modelling and reconstruction. He held visiting research positions at Edinburgh University (UK), Universite' Blaise Pascal (France), Michigan State University (USA), Universite' D'Auvergne (France), Italian Institute of Technolgy (IIT), and University College London (UK). His research is focused on 3D data processing, statistical learning and medical image analysis. He has coauthored several papers published in leading conference proceedings and journals. He is member of the editorial board of the Pattern Recognition Journal. His reserach activity is mainly developed withing European (EU) projects, national (MIUR) projects, and projects funded by prived companies. He is teaching Computer Vision at the Computer Science Department, and Multimedia at the department of filologia, letteratura e linguistica at University of Verona. He is member of Eurographics, IAPR, MICCAI and IEEE.