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 and 2025.
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
Jun 2025 - One paper accepted at CAIP2025 (main author is Melissa Tijnk - congrats Melissa!)
May 2025 - Together with Estefania Talavera and Alex Stergiou, I co-organized the Netherlands Conference on Computer Vision (NCCV) 2025
May 2025 - I received the ‘Ius Promovendi’ and I am now allowed to act as PhD Promotor and confer PhD degrees at the University of Twente.
Apr 2025 - One paper accepted in Neural Computing and Applications (main author is Peter van der Wal - congrats!).
Apr 2025 - Shunxin Wang defended her PhD. Congratulations Dr. Shunxin!
Apr 2025 - Our paper ‘Not Only Text: Exploring Compositionality of Visual Representations in Vision-Language Models’ is selected as Highlight at CVPR 2025 (main author is Davide Berasi - congrats Davide!).
Feb 2025 - Two papers accepted at CVPR 2025 (main authors are Shunxin Wang and Davide Berasi - congrats both!).
Feb 2025 - I will be Area Chair for NeurIPS 2025.
Jan 2025 - Zohra Rezgui defended her PhD. Congratulations Dr. Zohra!
Jan 2025 - One paper accepted at ICLR 2025 (main author is Boqian Wu - congrats Boqian!).