About me

About me

I am an Associate Professor at the University of Twente (Netherlands), with the Data management and Biometrics group and an NWO VIDI Laureate. 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

Sep 2026 - I will be Area Chair for CVPR 2027
Sep 2026 - I will be Area Chair for ICRL 2027
Sep 2026 - Camilla Spingola has joined my team and the UT-CVLab as visiting PhD student from University of Salerno - welcome Camilla!
Aug 2026 - Elman Ghazaei has joined my team as PhD student on the ReVision project
Aug 2026 - One paper on weather synthesis in images with structure-preserving LoRA accepted in the WiCV workshop @ECCV2026 (main author Shunxin Wang)
Jul 2026 - I am an Outstanding Reviewer for ECCV 2026
Jul 2026 - One paper on hyperbolic adaptation of CLIP for medical image anomaly accepted in Pattern Recognition (main author is Keyu Guo)
May 2026 - One paper on 3D Visual Grounding accepted in Information Fusion (main author is Keyu Guo)
May 2026 - I gave a keynote talk at the SAIL closing conference in Bielefeld, organized by Prof. Barbara Hammer
May 2026 - I gave an invited talk at Delft University of Technology, hosted by Dr. Julian Kooij
Apr 2026 - The first edition of the Foundation Models course (coordinated by me) at the University of Twente started
Mar 2026 - I will be Area Chair for NeurIPS 2026
Mar 2026 - Sven Dummer defended his PhD. Congratulations Dr. Sven!
Mar 2026 - My former PhD student Shunxin Wang won a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship - congrats Shunxin! \