I am an Associate Professor of computer science in the Dept of Mathematics “Tullio Levi-Civita” at the University of Padova, Italy, where I lead the Visual Intelligence and Machine Perception (VIMP) group. I am also affiliated faculty at the Human Inspired Technology Research Centre, and am an ELLIS member since 2021.

Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the AI Lab at Stanford University – working with L. Fei-Fei and S. Savarese – supported by a prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Commission. I received my Laurea (M.S.) and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering in 2006 and 2011, both from the Univ. of Florence (Italy), advised by A. Del Bimbo. I also spent time at Telecom ParisTech (France) in 2010.

My primary research area is computer vision, closely integrated with the fields of machine learning, robotics and multimedia. The main focus of my current research is to go beyond narrow and passive methods, toward embodied multimodal and multitask vision models that can actively operate in the real world.

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