I am a Postdoctoral Research Assistant with the Centre for Intelligent Sensing and the School of Electronic Engineerging and Computer Science at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), UK. I currently investigate machine learning models based on graph neural networks for explainable AI, specifically for the use-case of privacy protection in multimedia data (images, videos, and audio-visual data), under the project "Graph Neural Networks for Explainable AI" (GraphNEx, PI: Prof. Andrea Cavallaro).
I obtained the Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering from Queen Mary University of London, UK, in September 2020, the Master Degree in Telecommunications Engineering and the Bachelor Degree in Electronic and Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Trento in March 2015 and February 2012, rspectively. I was a Research Assistant and Postdoctoral Research Assistant in Queen Mary University of London and I investigated novel, robust, deployable multi-modal (audio-visual) models for human-to-robot handovers under the project "Collaborative Object Recognition, Shared Manipulation and Learning (CORSMAL)".
I am an IEEE Member and IEEE Signal Processing Society member, and I serve as a reviewer for international conferences and journals, including IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE Sensors Journal, IET Computer Vision, International Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR), European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV), IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), IEEE International Conference on Acoustic, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), IEEE International Conference on Pattern Recognition (ICPR), British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), and ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). I was awarded the Top Reviewer Recognition at IEEE ICIP 2020, and the Oustanding Reviewer Recognition at IEEE ICASSP 2022 and IEEE ICASSP 2023.
Computer Vision | Deep learning | Multi-modal fusion | Image and video processing | Perception for robotics | Privacy
2024/04/16 | Presenting the project GraphNEx at the annual CHIST-ERA Projects Seminar 2024 |
2024/04/07 | Paper accepted as poster at XAI4CV Workshop at CVPR 2024 |
2024/02/07 | Reviewer for the European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) 2024 |
2024/01/30 | Reviewer for the IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2024 |
2024/01/20 | Co-organiser of the Human-to-Robot Handovers Sub-track within the Robotic Grasping and Manipulation Competition at the 2024 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) |