I am an Assistant Professor (tenure track) of computer science in the Dept of Mathematics “Tullio Levi-Civita” at the University of Padova, Italy, where I lead the Visual Intelligence and Machine Perception (VIMP) group. I am also affiliated faculty at the Human Inspired Technology Research Centre.

Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher in the AI Lab at Stanford University – working with L. Fei-Fei and S. Savarese – supported by a prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Commission. I received my Laurea (M.S.) and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering in 2006 and 2011, both from the Univ. of Florence (Italy), advised by A. Del Bimbo. I also spent time at Telecom ParisTech (France) in 2010.

My primary research area is computer vision, closely integrated with applied (deep) machine learning and multimedia. The main focus of my current research is on designing learning algorithms that make the most effective use of contextual knowledge in presence of sparse and noisy data.

Andrea Pin is Associate Professor of Comparative Public Law at the University of Padua, where he has taught since 2007. He taught at the U.S. Universities of Notre Dame and Emory, where he is also Senior Fellow of the Center for the Study of Law & Religion.
He clerked for the Italian constitutional Court between 2011 and 2013. He has published four books; his articles have appeared in Italian, British, American, French, and Spanish academic journals.

Elisa Spiller is a PhD candidate at the University of Padova – School of Law. Her research focuses on the impact of big data on constitutional democracy and fundamental rights protection, and she is the author of articles and presentations about privacy and data protection. Elisa was a visiting scholar at Wake Forest – School of Law in 2014.