I am currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, employed as a Tenure-Track Researcher (RTT). I work between the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science, and Physics of the University of Udine (Udine, Italy), and the Centre for Vision Research at York University (Toronto, Canada). Prior to that, I was a Research Fellow (RTD-a) in the same department and a postdoc in the Machine Learning and Perception Lab of the same institute. I also spent time as a visiting researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, USA), and at the University of Alcalà (Madrid, Spain).

I received the BSc and MSc in Computer Science from the University of Udine in 2016 and 2018 respectively. At the same institute, I obtained the PhD in Industrial and Information Engineering in 2022 supervised by Prof. Christian Micheloni. During my Master’s, I have been a visiting student at the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision of the Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane, Australia).

The goal of my research is to let machines sense and understand object dynamics in videos by learning from real-world examples. More specifically, I do research on deep learning algorithms for computer vision, in particular for visual object tracking. I am also interested in applying such methods in medical image analysis to let computers improve people’s health, and into the sport domain for video-based performance analysis. On these topics, I published several papers in international conferences and journals, and I received an award for winning the Visual Object Tracking VOT2021 long-term challenge held at ICCV 2021.

I serve as reviewer for the most relevant conferences and journals in computer vision (CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ACCV, WACV, TPAMI, IJCV), pattern recognition (ICPR, PR), robotics (ICRA, RA-L), and medical image analysis (MIDL, MedIA, TMI). I was recognized as an outstanding reviewer by ECCV 2022. I have been involved in the organization of a series of workshops on Computer Vision for Winter Sports at WACV and of object tracking challenges at CVPR. I am also an associate editor of The Visual Computer journal.

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For all the details, you can have a look at my curriculum vitae.