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Biography

I am an ERCIM post-doctoral research fellow at Distributed and Interactive Systems (DIS) group at Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, CWI, (The National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands). I am also the Information Director of ACM SIGMM Records.
Truly passionate about multimedia and technology, my research interests are at the crossroad between multimedia processing, data processing and analysis, machine learning, and communication systems.

I received my Laurea Triennale and Magistrale in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering for Energy (they are comparable to BSc and MSc degrees) from the University of Bologna 🇮🇹 – Campus of Cesena in 2013 and 2016, respectively (Advisor Prof. Marco Chiani). From September 2015 to March 2016, I was a visiting student at WMN (Wireless Multimedia Networking) laboratory at Kingston University, London 🇬🇧 to prepare my final dissertation under the supervision of Prof. Maria Martini.
In May 2017, after a five months internship,  I joined the Learning and Signal Processing (LASP) group at University College London (UCL) 🇬🇧 under the supervision of Dr Laura Toni. My PhD thesis is “Understanding user interactivity for the next-generation immersive communication: design, optimisation, and behavioural analysis”, which has been recently awarded by the Fabrizio Lombardi Prize 2022 for the best PhD thesis (the Lombardi prize is awarded annually to the UCL EEE student who submitted the best PhD thesis over the previous year).  In 2021, I was selected for the ERCIM (European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics) "Alain Bensoussan" Fellowship". In May 2022, I started as a Postdoctoral researcher at CWI, Amsterdam 🇳🇱, supervised by Pablo Cesar. 

Research Experience

 
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Postdoc (2022-Present) 

ERCIM postdoc fellow
Distributed and Interactive System (DIS) group

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Research Internship (2020-2021) 

7-month internship on user behavioural analysis in immersive systems from 3-DoF to 6-DoF
Distributed and Interactive System (DIS) group

Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Research Internship (2016-2017) 

5-month internship on interactive communication
Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering

University College London (UCL)
London, United Kingdom

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Research Visiting (2015-2016) 

Visiting research for the final master thesis
WMN research group

Kingston University 
London, United Kingdom

Education

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PhD in immersive communication (2017-2022) 

Learning And Signal Processing (LASP)
Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering

University College London (UCL)
London, United Kingdom
Thesis Understanding user interactivity for the next-generation immersive communication: design, optimisation, and behavioural analysis
Advisor: Dr Laura Toni

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MSc in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering for Energy (2013-2016) 

University of Bologna (UNIBO) - Campus of Cesena

Bologna, Italy
Thesis Content Characterisation of 3D Videos
Advisors: Prof Marco Chiani (UNIBO, Italy)
                 Prof Maria Martini (Kingston University, UK)

Some behind the scene of my research

 
 
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