About me

About me

I am an Associate Professor at the University of Twente (Netherlands), with the Data management and Biometrics group. Before, I was Assistant Professor at University of Twente and a postdoctoral research at the University of Groningen (Netherlands) in the Intelligent Systems group, where I worked on the H2020 TrimBot2020 project to realize the first outdoor gardening robot. I obtained a PhD cum laude from the University of Groningen and the University of Salerno (Italy), and the BSc and MSc degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Salerno, both cum laude. I have been General Co-chair of the series of international conferences on Applications of Intelligent Systems (APPIS 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023).
I am currently Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition (Elsevier) and member of the Editorial Board of Neural Computing and Applications (Springer). I served as Area Chair for NeurIPS 2024.

Research

My research in Computer Vision and Machine Learning revolves around the problems of generalization and robustness to changing environments and perturbations of the input data. I focus on identifying and mitigating the sources of bias in training data, while inducing good bias via expert and prior knowledge in the training process, model architectures or labels.

More on research here

Latest News

Aug 2024 - One paper accepted at ICPR 2024
Aug 2024 - One paper accepted at IEEE IJCB 2024 special sessions
Jun 2024 - I and Shunxin Wang attended CVPR 2024 and presented the paper “Fourier-basis Functions to Bridge Augmentation Gap: Rethinking Frequency Augmentation in Image Classification”
Jun 2024 - I am a panelist at the CVPR social ‘Challenges/Opportunities for ECRs in Fast Paced AI’
Jun 2024 - One paper accepted at IEEE CASE 2024
May 2024 - We (9 members of the computer vision group at DMB/UT) attended NCCV 2024 and presented several works.
May 2024 - I attended ICRA 2024 and presented the paper “Regressing Transformers for Data-efficient Visual Place Recognition”
Apr 2024 - One paper accepted in IEEE T-BIOM
Apr 2024 - I will be Area Chair for NeurIPS 2024
Mar 2024 - One paper accepted at CVPR 2024
Feb 2024 - One paper accepted at ISBI 2024
Jan 2024 - One paper accepted at ICRA 2024
Dec 2023 - I received an Incentive Grant for a PhD student from EEMCS Faculty together with Silke Glas and Federico Califano
Dec 2023 - I will be Associate Editor for Pattern Recognition \