Carlo S. Regazzoni received the Laurea degree in Electronic Engineering and in 1992 the Ph.D. in Telecommunications and Signal Processing from the University of Genoa (UniGE). Since 2005 he is Full Professor of Telecommunications Systems. He is the coordinator of the International Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate on Interactive and Cognitive Environments (ICE), providing joint/double PhD titles at the European level (www.icephd.org). Dr.Regazzoni is involved in research on Signal and Information Processing since 1988. Data Fusion, and Cognitive (Video and Radio) Dynamic Systems are his main research interests being Ambient Intelligence, Cognitive Radio, Surveillance and Physical Security, the main applications. He…
Lucio Marcenaro enjoys over 10 years experience in image and video sequence analysis, and authored over 30 technical papers related to signal and video processing for computer vision. An Electronic Engineering graduate from Genova University in 1999, he received his PhD in Computer Science and Electronic Engineering from University of Genova in 2003. From 2003 to 2010 he was CEO and development manager at TechnoAware srl. From March 2011, he became Assistant Professor in Telecommunications for the Faculty of Engineering at the Department of Electrical, Electronic, Telecommunications Engineering and Naval Architecture (DITEN) at the University of Genova where he teaches…
Raffaele Bolla received the Ph.D. degree in telecommunications from the University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, in 1994. He is currently a Full Professor with DITEN, University of Genoa, where he is also leading the Telecommunication Networks and Telematics (TNT) Laboratory. He has been a Principal Investigator of many important research projects and contracts with both public institutions and private companies. He is also involved in many standardization activities in ITU-T, ETSI, and IEEE (he is currently the Rapporteur of a Working Item of the ETSI EE-TC). He has co-authored more than 200 scientific publications in international journals and international conference…
Researcher at DITEN, University of Genoa, where he teaches Cyberphysical systems and Entrepreneurship for the Master's Degree in Electronic Engineering. Bellotti graduated with honors in Electronic Engineering from the University of Genoa and received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the same university. He is in the didactic board of the PhD course Interactive Cognitive Environments of the Erasmus Mundus program. The main research interests are serious games, infomobility systems, human-computer interaction, artificial intelligence and technology-enhanced learning. He has been responsible for the workpackage of requirement, design and implementation of WPs in numerous (20+) European and Italian industrial research projects.…
Andrea Trucco was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1970. He received the Laurea (M.Sc.) degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Genoa in June 1994 and the Ph.D. degree in Electronic Engineering and Computer Science from the Department of Biophysical and Electronic Engineering (DIBE) of the same university in June 1998. In 1999, he was appointed Assistant Professor at DIBE; in 2005 he was appointed Associate Professor. He is presently in charge of some courses (Electrical Communications, Array Signal Processing) in the signal processing and telecommunications field, cooperating with special emphasis in the M.Sc. Program in Multimedia Signal Processing…
Igor Bisio got his “Laurea” degree at the University of Genoa, Italy in 2002. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in “Information and Communication Sciences” at the University of Genoa in 2006. His Ph.D. was funded by the Italian Consortium of Telecommunications (CNIT). He is currently Assistant Professor and member of the research staff of the Telecommunication Research Group and, in particular, of the Digital Signal Processing (DSP) and the Satellite Communications and Networking (SCNL) Laboratories at the University of Genoa. He is IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) Member and since 2012 to 2016 he was the Chair of the IEEE ComSoc…
Gabriele Moser received the Laurea (M.Sc. equivalent) degree in telecommunications engineering and the Ph.D. degree in space sciences and engineering from the University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy, in 2001 and 2005, respectively. Since 2014, he has been an Associate Professor of Telecommunications with the University of Genoa. His research activity is focused on pattern recognition and image processing methodologies for remote sensing and energy applications. He is author or co-author or more than 140 papers in international scientific journals, conference proceedings, and edited books. Since 2001, he has been cooperated with the Image Processing and Pattern Recognition for Remote Sensing…
Paolo Gastaldo obtained the “Laurea” degree in Electronic Engineering and a PhD in Space Sciences and Engineering (2004), both from Genoa University, Italy. Since 2004 he is with the Department of Biophysical and Electronics Engineering of Genoa University, where he was the recipient of a research grant on Intelligent Systems for Visual Quality Estimation sponsored by Philips Research Labs - Eindhoven (NL) until 2008. Since 2011 he is covering the position of Researcher at Genoa University, where he teaches Electronic Instrumentation. His main research area includes machine learning, computational intelligence, text mining, embedded systems for advanced signal interpretation in robotics,…
Andrea Sciarrone was born in Livorno, Italy in 1984. He got his Bachelor Degree in Telecommunication Engineering at the University of Genoa in 2007 and the Master Degree Cum Laude in Telecommunication Engineering in 2009 in the same university with a thesis on Audio Signal Processing. In 2014 Andrea Sciarrone got the Ph. D. degree in Ambient Intelligence at Univerisity of Genoa with a thesis on Signal Processing Algorithms for Context-Aware applications over mobile platforms. He is currently Post-doc Research Fellow and member of the research staff of the Telecommunication Research Group and, in particular of the Digital Signal Processing…
Dr. Eliane L. Bodanese MSc, PhD, MIEEE, MIET joined the Electronic Engineering Department at Queen Mary in 2003. She is a senior lecturer and a member of the Networks Research Group. Dr Bodanese received her Electrical Engineering degree from the Federal University of Parana (Brazil) and her M.Sc. degree in Electrical Engineering from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil). In 2000, she received her Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from Queen Mary, University of London (UK). Her doctorate work was a precursor in the use of intelligent software agents for resource management in wireless networks. This work received a prize…
Dr. Cuadrado is a senior lecturer (Associate Professor) in Networks in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science of Queen Mary University of London. Before joining QMUL, he completed my PhD in Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. In 2010 he received a prize for the best PhD in telecommunications by the Spanish association of Telecommunication Engineers. He is interested in understanding complex distributed systems (mostly Internet applications), and engineering them to work better. e.g. Cloud applications, with elastic (dynamic) changes, that are interconnected over a network. He is also looking at (Big) large-scale distributed systems that process massive amounts of…
Yue Gao (known as Frank) is a Reader in Antennas and Signal Processing, and Director of Whitespace Machine Communication (WMC) Lab in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL). I worked as Research Assistant, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) and Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) at QMUL after my PhD degree obtained from QMUL in 2007. I am currently leading a team developing theoretical research into practice in the interdisciplinary area among smart antennas, signal processing, spectrum sharing and internet of things (IoT) applications. I have published over 140 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers, 2…
(Dr.) Stefan Poslad (PhD) is currently a Senior Lecturer (roughly equivalent to US-style Associate Professor) in the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and a member of the Networks Research Lab/Group and the Centre for Intelligent Sensing (CIS). I have a PhD in medical informatics from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK (1986); M.Sc. Medical Physics (1982) and a B.Sc. Physics from University of Southampton (1981). I am a member of the IEEE. Previously, I was a lecturer at QMUL (2000-2012); a Nortel Networks funded Research Fellow, Imperial College (1997-2000);…
Jesús Requena Carrión received the degree in telecommunication engineering degree in 2003 and the Ph.D. degree in multimedia and telecommunications engineering from the Carlos III University of Madrid in 2008. He is currently a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) with the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen MaryUniversity of London. His main research interests include statistical signal processing and computer modelling and simulation of complex systems.
Laurissa Tokarchuk is lecturer in the Intelligent Systems & Multimedia Group at Queen Mary, University of London. She received her B.A. in classics and B.Sc. (Honors) in computer science from the University of Saskatchewan, Canada. Her primary research interests include intelligent agents, user modeling, knowledge representation, and learning.
Steve Uhlig obtained a Ph.D. degree in Applied Sciences from the University of Louvain, Belgium, in 2004. From 2004 to 2006, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Belgian National Fund for Scientific Research (F.N.R.S.). His thesis won the annual IBM Belgium/F.N.R.S. Computer Science Prize 2005. Between 2004 and 2006, he was a visiting scientist at Intel Research Cambridge, UK, and at the Applied Mathematics Department of University of Adelaide, Australia. Between 2006 and 2008, he was with Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands. Prior to joining Queen Mary, he was a Senior Research Scientist with Technische Universität Berlin/Deutsche Telekom…
Qianni Zhang received her M.Sc. degree in Internet signal processing in 2004 and the PhD degree in 2007, both from Queen Mary University of London. She is now working as a lecturer (associate professor) at the School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, Queen Mary University of London. Her researchinterests include multimedia processing, semantic inference and reasoning, machine learning, image understanding, 3D reconstruction and immersive environments. She has published over 30 technical papers and book chapters, and has actively contributed to several European funded research projects. She has served as a guest editor in a special issue in Journal of…
José María Armingol received his Ph.D. in Automation from the Universidad Carlos III of Madrid in 1997. Since 2012, he has been a Full Professor of the Intelligent Systems Lab at the University Carlos III of Madrid. He was the Assistant Vice-chancellor for Students and College Life from 2009 to 2015.
Arturo de la Escalera, PhD, graduated from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid (Madrid, Spain) in Automation and Electronics Engineering in 1989, where he also obtained his Ph.D. degree in Robotics in 1995. In 1993 he joined the Department of Systems Engineering and Automation of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, (Madrid, Spain) where he is an Associate Professor since 1997. His current research interests include Advanced Robotics and Intelligent Transportation Systems with special emphasis on vision sensor systems and image data processing methods for environment perception and real-time pattern recognition. He has co-authored 27 articles in journals and more than 60…
Mario Marchese got his "Laurea" degree cum laude in 1992, and his Ph.D. in 1996, at the University of Genoa, Italy. From 1999 to 2004, he was Head of Research in the Italian Consortium of Telecommunications (CNIT). From February 2016 he has been Full Professor at the University of Genoa where is the founder and technical responsible of the Satellite Communications and Networking Laboratory (SCNL). He was the Chair of the IEEE ComSoc Satellite and Space Communications Technical Committee. He is author and co-author of more than 150 scientific works, including international magazines, conferences and book chapters. He is Associate…
Alessandro De Gloria is Professor of Electronics and Coordinator of the Master's Degree in Electronic Engineering at the University of Genoa. In the Electronic Group Association (GE), the Italian association of professors in Electronic Engineering, is the national manager of the applications sector and local manager of the Genoese unit. His main research interests are: computer architectures, embedded systems, cooperation and vehicular security, Human-Computer Interaction, neuro-physiological signal processing, technology-enhanced learning, modeling and simulation, virtual reality, and Serious Games. De Gloria has guided more than 10 EU research projects over the last 15 years from a global or local manager, in…
Andrea Cavallaro is Professor of Multimedia Signal Processing and Director of the Centre for Intelligent Sensing at Queen Mary University of London, UK. He received his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), Lausanne, in 2002. He was a Research Fellow with British Telecommunications (BT) in 2004/2005 and was awarded the Royal Academy of Engineering teaching Prize in 2007; three student paper awards on target tracking and perceptually sensitive coding at IEEE ICASSP in 2005, 2007 and 2009; and the best paper award at IEEE AVSS 2009. Prof. Cavallaro is Area Editor for the IEEE…
Riccardo Mazzon received a BSc degree in 2006 (3 years full-time) and a MSc degree in 2009 (2 years full-time) in Computer Engineering from the University of Padova (Italy). He developed his final MSc project as visiting student for 8 months at Heriot-Watt University (Edinburgh, UK). He subsequently spent three months working as research assistant on Stereo Real-Time Structure from Motion at LTTM, University of Padova. Since September 2009, he has been a research student at the Centre for Intelligent Sensing at Queen Mary University of London. His research interests are human behaviour and people tracking in non-overlapping camera networks.