Fabio Scotti

Università degli Studi di Milano - Dipartimento di Informatica

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Fabio Scotti
Department of Computer Science
Università degli Studi di Milano

Education

• Ph.D. in Computer Science and Automation, Politecnico di Milano. Ph.D. dissertation: "Designing Methodologies for Composite Systems" [3/2003].
• M.S. degree in Electronic Engineering, Politecnico di Milano. Master's thesis: "Composite real-time analysis of profiles using a laser scanner" [10/1998].

Positions

• Full professor in the scientific sector INF/01-Computer Science at the Università degli Studi di Milano [10/2020 - present].
• Deputy Director of the "Industrial, Environmental and Biometric Informatics Laboratory" of the Department of Computer Science, at the Università degli Studi di Milano [6/2015 - present].
• Associate professor in the scientific sector INF/01-Computer Science at the Università degli Studi di Milano [03/2015 - 09/2020].
• Director of the "Biometric Systems Laboratory" of the Department of Computer Science (FKA Department of Information Technology), at the Università degli Studi di Milano [1/2009-6/2015].
• Assistant professor ("Ricercatore") in the scientific sector INF/01-Computer Science at the Università degli Studi di Milano [12/2002-02/2015].
• Military service, Comando Forze di Proiezione of the Italian Army (NATO Rapid Deployable Corp) [1999].
• Research contracts at the Politecnico di Milano (4 contracts) and the Università degli Studi di Milano (1 contract), Department of Computer Science (FKA Department of Information Technology) [1998-2002].
• Scientific manager and participant of national and international research projects [1998 - present].

Research

The research activity has principally been performed in the field of information processing technology and systems, signal and image processing methodologies and techniques, artificial intelligence methods in industrial, security and service-oriented applications, intensive-computing applications and embedded applications. In particular, the sequent areas have been researched.

• Multimodal and contactless biometrics techniques and systems.
  Biometrics systems and technologies, including multi-modal approaches, have been studied for person verification, identification based on physiological and behavioral traits with specific reference to security applications. Innovative contactless and three-dimensional approaches have been analyzed. The biometric technologies and systems have been studied from different levels of abstraction in order to support a comprehensive design methodology. Methodologies for the privacy protection of biometric data have been analyzed.
• Artificial intelligence techniques, architectures and applications.
  Theoretical, architectural, and application aspects of artificial intelligence techniques (with specific focus on artificial neural networks) have been studied for implementing evolutionary multimodal optimized solutions, with particular reference to identification, prediction, control, signal, and image processing applications. Design methodologies have been developed for automatically optimize and tune embedded composite systems and adaptive systems. Advanced industrial applications have been realized for production process and environmental monitoring, quality assessment, and biomedical analysis.

Biometrics

The research activity has been focused on the acquisition, coding, encryption, and privacy protection of biometric data. The high level theory for the elaboration of biometric data has been studied in order to obtain a flexible balancing between accuracy and computational complexity in monomodal and multimodal biometric systems. Techniques for the automatic design and performance optimization of distributed biometric systems, and for the definition and measurement of the related figures of merit and performance have been presented. Methods based on image processing techniques for fingerprint images captured in contactless biometric systems have been studied, also considering three-dimensional techniques. The presented techniques have been implemented and verified with specific virtual environments designed for the computation of synthetic three-dimensional models and techniques for the quality assessment of the extracted data. Soft biometric techniques have also been analyzed with the specific reference to the weight estimation of walking individuals from frame sequences captured at a distance. Researches have also been performed on techniques for the continuous biometric authentication based on multiple biometric traits (fingerprint and face), with particular attention to data fusion strategies based on fuzzy logic approaches. Techniques for the quality enhancement of iris images captured by biometric systems have also been studied. In particular, the algorithms presented in regarding adaptive techniques for the segmentation of noisy iris images captured in unconstrained conditions ranked seventh at the international completion NICE.I (Noisy Iris Challenge Evaluation) involving 97 participants from universities and companies of 30 countries.

High-level synthesis and system optimization based on artificial intelligence techniques

The following topics were studied:

• Methods for the composition of traditional algorithms and artificial intelligence techniques, in order to maximize the utilization of the specific peculiarities of the different computational paradigms, with specific reference to applications with high computational requirements such as real-time signal and image processing systems;
• Methods for the minimization of the computation of the optimal synthesis of the neural structure for the realization of composite systems;
• Methods for maximizing the processing robustness of the neural networks directly in the training phase, with respect to different kinds of implementations (word length of the processor, FPGA implementations, etc.)

The obtained theoretical results have been applied and tested in the following real cases. The real-time detection and measurement of profiles in high speed captured images was studied, using composite image processing techniques, based on traditional prefiltering methods and artificial intelligence techniques, also in embedded systems. A method for the classification of the laser cut of metals, based on the images of the jet of sparks captured by a camera, was studied. The high-level synthesis methods were also applied in the creation of automatic multisensorial systems for the quality evaluation in industrial laser production machinery. The research activity produced innovative methods for the quality identification in laser cut systems, registered in the Italian, European and American patent offices. The composite design method was also applied in the field of the automatic wood type classification based on the neural analysis of the fluorescent spectrum, and in the automatic defect analysis of the finished particle boards. Very positive results were obtained in the study of the automatic diagnosis of the Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia from microscopic images. The application of neural networks was also studied in conjunction with image processing techniques for the particle granulometry analysis, for the creation of virtual environments for their design and optimization, and for the object volume measurement using contactless techniques based on multiple views.

Other topics

Other topics addressed include the study of the techniques for the optimization of the structure of distributed information systems using genetic techniques, and the study of the problems related to the privacy protection in the processing of environmental data.

Collaborations with research institutes and industries

The activities have been carried out within research institutes (Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, CNR, European Centre for Soft Computing, IRST-Trento, Istituto di studio sui sistemi intelligenti per l'automazione, Laser Zentrum Hannover, Politecnico di Bari, Politecnico di Milano, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos) and national and international industries (Centro Ricerche FIAT, Dermalog Identification Systems Gmbh, Gilardoni s.p.a., Gruppo Finmeccanica, Edison s.p.a., IMAL s.r.l., Indra Sistemas s.a., Laben s.p.a, Planetek Italia s.p.a, Philips, Quadrics Supercomputers World Ltd, Safe-ID solutions Gmbh, SAIB s.p.a, Spike Reply s.r.l., STMicroelectronics, Space DAT s.r.l., Space Software Italia s.p.a, Tecnogamma s.p.a, Trumpf GmbH, Vision-box s.a).

Publications

• Publication page.
• Citation metrics are available here in section Bibliometrics.

Teaching

Undergraduate and graduate courses

Università degli Studi di Milano:

• "Complementi di biometria", Laurea magistrale in Sicurezza Informatica (6 ECTS) [2019 - present];
• "Intelligent systems for industry, supply chain and environment", Laurea magistrale in Informatica (6 ECTS) [2019 - present];
• "Intelligent systems for industry and environment", Laurea Magistrale in Informatica (6 ECTS) [2018];
• "Informatics for industrial applications and robotics", Laurea Magistrale in Informatica (6 ECTS) [2016-2018];
• "Vision in industrial applications and robotics", Laurea magistrale in Informatica (6 ECTS) [2016-2017];
• "Biometric systems" ("Sistemi biometrici"), Laurea magistale in Sicurezza Informatica e Laurea in Sicurezza dei sistemi e delle reti informatiche (6 ECTS) [2006 - present];
• "Biometric systems" ("Sistemi biometrici"), Laurea in Sicurezza dei sistemi e delle reti informatiche (online edition) (6 ECTS) [2006 - present];
• "Programming Laboratory for Security" ("Laboratorio di programmazione per la sicurezza"), Laurea in Informatica e Laurea in Sicurezza dei sistemi e delle reti informatiche (6 ECTS) [2004-2008];
• "Programming Laboratory for Security" ("Laboratorio di programmazione per la sicurezza"), Laurea in Sicurezza dei sistemi e delle reti informatiche (online edition) (6 ECTS) [2004-2008];
• "Applied Informatics for Biotechnological Processes" ("Informatica applicata ai processi biotecnologici"), Laurea in Biotecnologie industriali e ambientali, genomica funzionale e bioinformatica (3 ECTS) [2005, 2007];
• "Statistical Data Analysis" ("Analisi statistica dei dati"), Laurea in Scienza della produzione e trasformazione del latte (3 ECTS) [2004, 2006];
• "Simulation of neural networks", Laurea in Tecnologie per la società dell'informazione [2003].

Ph.D. programs

• "Biometrics: Challenges and Research Trends", 8 hours module out of 20 for the full course, in English, Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Siena [7/2020].
• "Multi-dimensional signal processing" ("Fondamenti di elaborazione del segnale multi-dimensionale "), 6 hours module out of 24 for the full course, in English, Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano [7/2015].
• "Fundamentals of digital image processing" ("Fondamenti di elaborazione del segnale multi-dimensionale "), 6 hours module out of 24 for the full course, in English, Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano [1/2012].
• "Fundamentals of one-dimensional signal processing" ("Fondamenti di elaborazione del segnale mono-dimensionale"), 6 hours module out of 24 for the full course, in English, Ph.D. degree in Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano [5/2010].
• "Biometric systems", 18 hours full course, Ph.D. School of Information Engineering, University of Siena, Italy [2/2010].
• "Classification Methods and Inductive Learning Rules", module (2 hours), in the course "Advanced designing techniques for hybrid HW/SW systems" ("Tecniche avanzate di Progetto di Sistemi Misti HW/SW"), Ph.D. degree in Information Technology, of Computer Science, Politecnico di Milano [4/2005].

International master courses

• "Soft Computing for Environmental Applications and Remote Sensing", International online Master in Soft Computing for Industrial Applications - IMSCIA, sponsored by IEEE [2005].
• "Soft Computing for Signal Processing", International online Master in Soft Computing for Industrial Applications - IMSCIA, sponsored by IEEE [2005].
• "Laboratory of Soft Computing I", International online Master in Soft Computing for Industrial Applications - IMSCIA, sponsored by IEEE [2004].
• "Laboratory of Soft Computing II", International online Master in Soft Computing for Industrial Applications - IMSCIA, sponsored by IEEE [2004].

Teaching support

Università degli Studi di Milano:

• "Neural networks" ("Reti Neurali"), Laurea in Informatica e Laurea in Sicurezza dei sistemi e delle reti informatiche [2003-2005];
• "Applied Informatics for Biotechnological Processes" ("Informatica applicata ai processi biotecnologici"), Laurea in Tecnologie per la società dell'informazione [2003];
• "Neural networks" ("Reti Neurali"), Laurea in Informatica e Tecnologie per la società dell'informazione [2002].

Politecnico di Milano:

• "Foundations of Computer Science II" ("Fondamenti di informatica II"), Laurea in Ingegneria informatica [2002-2004];
• "Computer science B" ("Informatica B"), Laurea in Ingegneria dei trasporti [2002].

Modules in undergraduate and graduate courses

• "Applied Informatics for Biotechnological Processes", Laurea specialistica in Biotecnologie industriali e ambientali, genomica funzionale e bioinformatica, Università degli Studi di Milano [2004, 2006].
• "Statistical Data Analysis", Laurea in Scienza della produzione e trasformazione del Latte, Università degli Studi di Milano [2005, 2007].

International courses and tutorials

• "Implementations of Computational Intelligence Techniques", course, published by IEEE in the "Browse Education and Learning" series [2007].
• "Intelligent Systems for Quality Monitoring in Laser Processing Applications", tutorial, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference IMTC2004 [5/2004].

Ph.D. co-supervision

• Mohanad Abukmeil, Ph.D. program in Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano [3/2019-1/2022].
• Abhinav Anand, Ph.D. program in Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano [3/2015-2/2018].
• Angelo Genovese, "Contactless and less-constrained palmprint recognition", Ph.D. program in Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, [12/2010-3/2014].
• Ruggero Donida Labati, "Contactless Fingerprint Biometrics: Acquisition, Processing, and Privacy Protection", Ph.D. program in Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, [12/2009-3/2013].

Other teaching activities

• Advisor of more than 70 theses at the Department of Computer Science (previously named as Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell'Informazione), Università degli Studi di Milano (main topics covered: image and signal processing, biometric systems, artificial intelligence methods).
• Co-advisor of more than 10 theses at the Politecnico di Milano.
• "Image processing and feature extraction" course at the "Centro Ricerche Fiat", Orbassano (Torino), 12 hours, [7/2002].
• "Matlab" course (Progetto quadro di ateneo), Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano [2003/2004].
• Coordinator of the sequent modules of IFTS courses [2003/2004]: 1) IFTS "Tecnico superiore esperto di informatica medica" ("Programmazione di base" module); 2) IFTS "Tecnico superiore esperto di web ed e-commerce" ("Programmazione" module).
• ECDL examiner, Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell'Informazione, Università degli Studi di Milano [2004].

Awards

• IEEE Senior member [2012].

• Winner of the "ACM SIGMM Test of Time Paper award 2022", in the category of "Multimedia Security and Privacy", (link) with the paper "Privacy-preserving fingercode authentication" (authors: M. Barni, T. Bianchi, D. Catalano, M. Di Raimondo, R. Donida Labati, P. Failla, D. Fiore, R. Lazzeretti, V. Piuri, F. Scotti, A. Piva), in Proc. of the 2010 ACM Workshop on Multimedia and Security, New York, NY, USA, September 9-10, 2010, pp. 231-240 [DOI: 10.1145/1854229.1854270].

• The work "PalmNet: Gabor-PCA Convolutional Networks for touchless palmprint recognition" (authors: A. Genovese, V. Piuri, K. N. Plataniotis, F. Scotti), published in the international journal IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, vol. 14, no. 12, December 2019, pp. 3160–3174 (already published in the online issue in April 2019), was considered by the Editorial Board of the IEEE Biometrics Compendium as one of the most significant works in the field of biometric recognition and therefore was included in the IEEE Biometrics Compendium, no. 38, November 2019 [DOI: 10.1109/biomvj.2019.0000038].

• The work "Toward unconstrained fingerprint recognition: a fully-touchless 3-D system based on two views on the move" (authors: R. Donida Labati, A. Genovese, V. Piuri, F. Scotti), published in the international journal IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, vol. 46, no. 2, February 2016, pp. 202–219, was considered by the Editorial Board of the IEEE Biometrics Compendium as one of the most significant works in the field of biometric recognition and therefore was included in the IEEE Biometrics Compendium, no. 24, July 2016 [DOI: 10.1109/BIOMVJ.2017.0000024].

• The approch for segmenting iris images captured at high distance, on the move, and in uncontrolled light conditions has been submitted to the international competition "NICE.I (Noisy Iris Challenge Evaluation)", sponsored by Elsevier Science and organized by the Soft Computing and Image Analysis Group (SOCIA Lab), Department of Computer Science, University of Beira Interior, Portugal (http://nicel.di.ubi.pt). The approach was ranked in the top 8 (out of 97), which were invited to submit a paper on the techniques to the special issue on "Iris Images Segmentation" of the "Image and Vision Computing" journal. The paper was subject to regular rigorous review process and was accepted [DOI: 10.1016/j.imavis.2009.05.004].

Associations

• IEEE (senior member) - Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
• IEEE Signal Processing Society (member).

Organization

Research activities

Research organization

• Deputy director of the "Industrial, Environmental and Biometric Informatics Laboratory" of the Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy [6/2015 - present].
• Director of the "Biometric Systems Laboratory" of the Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy [1/2009-6/2015].
• Scientific manager and participant for research projects at Politecnico di Milano and Università degli Studi di Milano, funded by the Italian Ministry of University and Scientific and Technological Research and the European Union [1998 - present].
• Participant to the activities of the "Industrial, Environmental and Biometric Informatics Laboratory", "Industrial and Environmental Informatics Laboratory" and "Advanced Research Center on Evolutionary Knowledge for Design Innovation by High-Performance Computing", Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano [2003 - present].

Management of research projects

• Scientific manager of the Research Unit at Università degli Studi di Milano (Principal Investigator) in the EU project "Innovative poplar low density structural panel - I-PAN", for studying and implementing an adaptive monitoring and control system for advanced poplar lightweight panel production [2012-15].
• Scientific manager of the Project "Multimodal Explainability for Object Detection and Image processing in Drones Imagery" at Università degli Studi di Milano, grant "Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale, Mobilità India Information and Communication Technologies", [2022-2024].
• Scientific manager of the Project "Ambient Intelligence: Methodologies and Techniques for Smart Environments" at Università degli Studi di Milano, grant "Piano strategico di investimento (PSR), linea 2", [2019-2020].
• Scientific manager of the Project "Adaptive Systems for Environmental Monitoring" at Università degli Studi di Milano, grant "Unimi per il futuro - 5 per mille - 2009", [2009-2010].

Scientific participation in international and national research projects

• High quality Open data Publishing and Enrichment (HOPE), PRIN 2017MMJJRE, [2019-2022].
• Multi-Owner data Sharing for Analytics and Integration respecting Confidentiality and OWNer control (MOSAICrOWN), H2020-EU.2.1.1, [2019-2021].
• Contactless Multibiometric Mobile System in the Wild (COSMOS), PRIN 201548C5NT, [2017-2020].
• Computational Intelligence Methods for Production Prediction of Renewable Energy Plants, EDISON S.p.A., [2014-2015].
• Automated Border Control Gates for Europe (ABC4EU), FP7-SECURITY 312797, [2014-2017].
• Preliminary Study for the Application of Computational Intelligence Methods for Production Prediction of Renewable Energy Plants, EDISON S.p.A., [2013-2014].
• Data-driven Genomic Computing (GenData 2020), PRIN 2010RTFWBH, [2013-2016].
• Privacy Aware Processing of Encrypted Signals for Treating Sensitive Information (PRIV-WARE), PRIN 2007JXH7ET, [2008-2010].
• Privacy and Identity Management in Europe for Life (PRIMELIFE), FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and Communication Technologies, [2008-2011].
• Privacy and Identity Management for Europe (PRIME), FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area", [2004-2008].
• System for Interpreting SAR Images - GUTTER - preliminary analysis, Agenzia Spaziale Italiana, [2004].
• Perceptive Agencies for Environmental Monitoring (APE), MIUR COFIN 2002 Procedura per il cofinanziamento dei progetti di ricerca di interesse nazionale per l'esercizio finanziario, [2003-2004].
• Advanced Research Center on Evolutionary Knowledge for Design Innovation by High-Performance Computing (ARC), Gruppo Finmeccanica, Laben S.p.A., Space Software Italia S.p.A, Quadrics Supercomputers World Ltd., [2003-2007].
• An Intelligent Manufacturing System (SLAPS), IMS BRITE - International cooperation in Intelligent Manufacturing Systems programme, [1999-2001].
• An Integrated System for On-line Inspection of Railways Tracks (TRACKS), FP4-BRITE/EURAM 3 - CRAFT - (BE-S2-5466), [1998-1999].

Technology transfer

Co-inventor of the following patents:

• S. Cimato, M. Gamassi, V. Piuri, D. Sana, R. Sassi, and F. Scotti, "Method for generating and verifying security information obtained by means of biometric readings", European Patent no. WO2007113888, October, 2007;
• S. Cimato, M. Gamassi, V. Piuri, D. Sana, R. Sassi, and F. Scotti, "Metodo di generazione e di verifica di una informazione di sicurezza ottenuta mediante letture biometriche", Italian Patent no. MI2006A000641, March, 2006;
• C. Alippi, G. D'Angelo, M. Matteucci, G. Pasquettaz, V. Piuri, and F. Scotti, "A system and method for monitoring laser welds and giving an indication of the quality of welding", European Patent no. EP1371443, April 22, 2003;
• C. Alippi, G. D'Angelo, M. Matteucci, G. Pasquettaz, V. Piuri, and F. Scotti, "Sistema di monitoraggio per la qualità di saldature laser in tempo reale (Real-time laser welding monitoring system)", Italian Patent No. TO2002A000508, 2002.

Editorial activities

• Associate Editor of the "IEEE Open Journal of Signal Processing" [1/2020 - present].
• Book Editor (area editor "Less-constrained biometrics") of the Encyclopedia of Cryptography and Security (3rd edition), Springer [12/2019 - present].
• Associate Editor of the "IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems" [4/2015 - present].
• Associate Editor of the Springer "Soft Computing" [5/2013-1/2020].
• Associate Editor of the "IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security" [2/2010-2/2013].
• Guest co-editor for the "IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement", Special Issue on "Biometric Instrumentation and Measurement", vol. 59, issue 4, 2010.

Reviewer for journals and conferences

Reviewer for many international conferences (mainly in the computer science field and relative applications) and for the sequent international scientific journals:

• ACM Computing Surveys;
• Elsevier Computers & Security;
• Elsevier Forensic Science International;
• Elsevier Image and Vision Computing;
• Elsevier Pattern Recognition;
• Elsevier Pattern Recognition Letters;
• IEEE Access;
• IEEE Internet of Things Journal;
• IEEE Systems Journal;
• IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering;
• IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science;
• IEEE Transactions on Computers;
• IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems;
• IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics;
• IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security;
• IEEE Transactions on Image Processing;
• IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement;
• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks;
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems;
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part A: Systems and Humans;
• IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics - Part C: Applications and Reviews;
• IET Biometrics;
• IET Computer Vision;
• IOS Press Journal of Computer Security;
• Springer Artificial Intelligence Review;
• Springer EURASIP Journal on Information Security;
• Springer Journal of Ambient Intelligence & Humanized Computing;
• Springer Nature Scientific Reports;
• Springer Neural Computing and Applications;
• Wiley Journal of Microscopy;
• Wiley Security and Privacy Journal.

Conference activities

• General Chair/co-Chair
  • "World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing", December 15-17, 2021.
  • "International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition", December 15-17, 2021.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications", Ottawa, ON, Canada, September 19-21, 2011.
• Program Chair/co-Chair
  • "IEEE International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics", Roma, Italy, May 6-7, 2021.
  • "IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Management", Orlando, Florida, USA, December 9-12, 2014.
  • "IEEE Workshop on Biometric Measurements and Systems for Security and Medical Applications", Roma, Italy, October 17, 2014.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications", Ottawa, ON, Canada, May 5-7, 2014.
  • "IEEE Workshop on Biometric Measurements and Systems for Security and Medical Applications", Napoli, Italy, September 9, 2013.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications", Milan, Italy, July 15-17, 2013.
  • "IEEE Workshop on Biometric Measurements and Systems for Security and Medical Applications", Salerno, Italy, September 14, 2012.
  • "IEEE Workshop on Biometric Measurements and Systems for Security and Medical Applications", Milano, Italy, September 28, 2011.
  • "IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Management", IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, Paris, France, April 11-15, 2011.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications", Taranto, Italy, September 6- 8, 2010.
  • "IEEE Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics: Theory, Algorithms, and Applications", IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, Nashville, TN, USA, March 30 - April 2, 2009.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications", Istanbul, Turkey, July 14-16, 2008.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications", La Coruna, Spain, July 12-14, 2006.
• Tutorial co-Chair
  • "EAI International Conference on Security and Privacy in Communication Networks", Washington D.C., USA, 21-23 October, 2020.
  • "IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence", Nashville, TN, USA, March 30 - April 2, 2009.
• Co-organizer and co-Chair
  • "Biometric Technologies, Systems and Applications" of the conference "IEEE Symposium: Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (CISDA12)", Ottawa, ON, Canada, July 11-13, 2012.
  • "Applied Computational Intelligence in Biometrics" of the conference "IEEE Symposium: Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications (CISDA09)", Ottawa, ON, Canada, July 8-10, 2009.
  • "Soft Computing for Industrial Applications" of the conference "Knowledge-based Intelligent Information Engineering Systems (KES2002)", Crema, Italy, 16-18 September, 2002.
• Publication Chair of the "IEEE Workshop on Biometric Measurements and Systems for Security and Medical Applications (BIOMS2010)", Taranto, Italy, September 9, 2010.
• Member of the program committee
  • "IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications", Dortmund, Germany, September 7-9, 2023.
  • "IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks", Queensland, Australia, June 18-23, 2023.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications", Tunis, Tunisia, June 12-14, 2023.
  • "IEEE The International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference", Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, May 22-25, 2023.
  • "IEEE World Forum on Internet of Things", Yokohama, Japan, October 26-November 26, 2022.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications", Chemnitz, Germany, June 15-17, 2022.
  • "International Conference on Security and Cryptography", Lisbon, Portugal, July 11-13, 2022.
  • "International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications", Valletta, Malta, October 24-26, 2022.
  • "IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks", Padua, Italy, June 18-23, 2022.
  • "IEEE The International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference", Ottowa, Canada, May 16-19, 2022.
  • "International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications", December 13-15, 2021.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things", Melbourne, Australia, December 6-8, 2021.
  • "International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications", October 25-27, 2021.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications", September 22-25, 2021.
  • "IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks", July 18-22, 2021.
  • "International Conference on Security and Cryptography", July 6-8, 2021.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Application", June 18-19, 2021.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Technology Management, Operations and Decisions", Marrakech, Marocco, November 25-27, 2020.
  • "International Conference on Pervasive and Parallel Computing, Communication and Sensors", Budapest, Hungary, November 3-5, 2020.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things", Rhodes Island, Greece, November 2-6, 2020.
  • "International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications", Budapest, Hungary, November 2-4, 2020.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics", Toronto, ON, Canada, October 11-14, 2020.
  • "IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks", Glasgow, UK, July 19-24, 2020.
  • "International Conference on Security and Cryptography", Lieusaint, Paris, France, July 8-10, 2020.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-physical Systems", Tampere, Finland, June 9-12, 2020.
  • "IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference", Dubrovnik, Croatia, May 25-28, 2020.
  • "International Conference on Security with Intelligent Computing and Big-data Services", New Taipei City, Taiwan, December 4-6, 2019.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo", Graz, Austria, November 4-8, 2019.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics", Bari, Italia, October 6-9, 2019.
  • "International Workshop on Recent Advances in Digital Security: Biometrics and Forensics", Trento, Italia, September 10, 2019.
  • "International Conference on Machine Learning for Cyber Security", Xian, China, September 19-22, 2019.
  • "International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems", Vienna, Austria, September 19-20, 2019.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications", Metz, France, September 18-21, 2019.
  • "International Conference on Security and Cryptography", Prague, Czech Republic, July 26-28, 2019.
  • "IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks", Budapest, Hungary, July 14-19, 2019.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things", Atlanta, GA, USA, July 14-17, 2019.
  • "International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing Web System", Zacopane, Poland, June 16-20, 2019.
  • "IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference", Auckland, New Zeland, May 20-23, 2019.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Industrial Cyber-physical Systems", Taipei, Taiwan, May 6-9, 2019.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Electrical, Electronics, Communication, Computer Technologies and Optimization Techniques", Chengdu, China, December 14-15, 2018.
  • "International Conference on Modern Intelligent Systems Concepts", Rabat, Morocco, December 11-13, 2018.
  • "IEEE Workshop on Trust, Security and Privacy for Big Data", Chengdu, China, October 9-12, 2018.
  • "IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation", BC, Vancouver, Canada, July 24-29, 2016.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Application", Budapest, Hungary, June 27-28, 2016.
  • "IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Management", Cape Town, South Africa, December 8-10, 2015.
  • "IEEE Workshop on Environmental, Energy, and Structural Monitoring Systems", Trento, Italy, July 10-12, 2015.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Application", Shenzhen, China, June 12-14, 2015.
  • "IAPR International Conference on Biometrics", Phuket, Thailand, May 20-22, 2015.
  • "International Joint Conference on Biometrics", Clearwater, Tampa, FL, USA, September 29 - October 2, 2014.
  • "IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks", Beijing, China, July 6-11, 2014.
  • "IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation", Beijing, Cina, July 6-11, 2014.
  • "IEEE International Symposium on Innovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications", Alberobello, Italia, June 23-25, 2014.
  • "IEEE International Workshop on Information Forensics and Security", Guangzhou, November 18-21, 20132013, China.
  • "IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defence Applications", Ottawa, ON, Canada, July 12-13, 2012.
  • "IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence", Brisbane, Australia, June 10-15, 2012.
  • "IEEE Workshop on Biometric Measurements and Systems for Security and Medical Applications", Taranto, Italy, September 9, 2010.
  • "IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks", Barcelona, Spain, July 18-23, 2010.
  • "IEEE FutureTech - Track on Security and Trust Computing", Busan, Korea, May 20-24, 2010.
  • "IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference", Austin, TX, USA, May 3-6, 2010.
  • "International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems", Burgos, Spain, September 23-26, 2009.
  • "International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks", Limassol, Cyprus, September 14-17, 2009.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications", Bradford, UK, May 26-29, 2009.
  • "IEEE/IFIP International Symposium on Trust, Security and Privacy for Pervasive Applications", Shanghai, China, December 17-20, 2008.
  • "Annual Computer Security Applications Conference", Anaheim, CA, USA, December 8-12, 2008.
  • "International Workshop on Computational Intelligence in Security for Information Systems", Genova, Italy, October 23-24, 2008.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications", Ostuni, Italy, June 27-29, 2007.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Homeland Security and Personal Safety", Alexandria VA, USA, October 16-17, 2006.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications", Giardini Naxos - Taormina, Italy, July 20-22, 2005.
  • "IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications", Boston, MA, USA, July 14-16, 2004.

Technical committees and Chapters

• Vice Chair of the "Task Force on Biometrics" of the "Intelligent Systems Applications Technical Committee" of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society [2011-2016].
• Co-Chair of the technical committee "TC-22 Intelligent Measurement Systems" of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society [2010-2020].
• Secretary of the "IEEE Italy Section Biometrics Council Chapter" [2010-2015].

Educational activities in International programs

He was the coordinator of the operational management of the International Master's Degree Program on Soft Computing for Industrial Applications - IMSCIA, at Università degli Studi di Milano (Italy), with the scientific cooperation of Carnegie Mellon University (USA), Orebro University (Sweden), University of Ottawa (Canada), University of Siena (Italy), and Warsaw University of Technology (Poland), and with the support of the IEEE Neural Networks Society, IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society, INNS - International Neural Networks Society, ENNS - European Neural Network Society, and SIREN - Società Italiana Reti Neurali

Reviewing activities for scientific research projects

• Member of the Selection Scientific Panel for the Italian SuperComputing Resource Allocation (ISCRA) and Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Advanced Simulation (LISA) initiantives by CINECA [2022].
• Reviewer for the research projects subject to financing by the Università degli Studi di Padova [2019].
• Reviewer for the research projects subject to financing in the program Science Investment Round 2014, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), New Zeland [2014].
• Reviewer for the research projects subject to financing in the program CONSOLIDER- Ingegno 2010, Ministry of Education and Science, Spain [2007].
• Reviewer for the research projects subject to financing of the Ministry for Education, University and Research (MIUR), Italy [2007].

University services

• Coordinator of the Erasmus committee ("Commissione Erasmus"), Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano [2019 - present].
• Member of the Student-professor joint committee ("Commissione Paritetica"), Department of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano [2016 - present].
• Member of Doctorate School of the Ph.D. Degree Program in Information Technology, Università degli Studi di Milano [2010 - present].
• Coordinator of the Orientation committee ("Commissione Orientamento") of the "Consiglio di Coordinamento didattico Informatica-Crema" at the Università degli Studi di Milano [3/2007-11/2010].
• Member of the Orientation committee ("Commissione Orientamento") of the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, at the Università degli Studi di Milano [2004-11/2010].
• Member of the Orientation committee ("Commissione Orientamento") of the "Consiglio di Coordinamento didattico Informatica-Crema" at the Università degli Studi di Milano [2004-2012].
• Member of the Study plan committee ("Commissione piani di studio") of the "Consiglio di Coordinamento didattico Informatica-Crema", at the Università degli Studi di Milano [2003].

As member of the Orientation committee of the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, at Università degli Studi di Milano, and as the coordinator of the Orientation committee at the Crema campus of the Università degli Studi di Milano, performed the following tasks:

• promotion of the courses and the research activities of the Department of Information Technology in fairs, meetings and workshops;
• design and production of contents and materials for orientation activities (websites, multimedia, posters, brochures);
• individual orientation activities for students;
• organization of the "Orientation days" at Università degli Studi di Milano (OpenDay of the Department of Information Technology, OpenDay of the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences, OpenDay of the University);
• presentation of the educational offer during the orientation meeting held in high schools, mainly in the area of Crema, Cremona, Lodi;
• coordination and participation in the orientation events in the territory.

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