Event Chairs

Ana Fred Instituto de Telecomunicações and Instituto Superior Técnico (University of Lisbon) Portugal

Brief Bio
Ana Fred received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering, in 1989 and 1994, respectively, both from Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal. She is a Faculty Member of IST since 1986, where she has been a professor with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and more recently with the Department of Biomedical Engineering. She is a researcher at the Pattern and Image Analysis Group of the Instituto de Telecomunicações. Her main research areas are on pattern recognition, both structural and statistical approaches, with application to data mining, learning systems, behavioral biometrics, and biomedical applications. She has done pioneering work on clustering, namely on cluster ensemble approaches. Recent work on biosensors hardware (including BITalino – and ECG-based biometrics (Vitalidi project) have been object of several nacional and internacional awards, as well as wide dissemination on international media, constituting a success story of knowledge transfer from research to market. She has published over 160 papers in international refereed conferences, peer reviewed journals, and book chapters. ... More >>

Maria De Marsico Sapienza Università di Roma Italy

Brief Bio
Maria De Marsico is Full Professor at Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Computer Science. She graduated in Computer Science at University of Salerno. Her research interests concern the study of biometric systems (face, iris, gait, multi-biometric systems), pattern recognition, image processing, and human-machine interaction, in particular, issues of accessibility, emotion recognition, and biometric interaction. She is Editor in Chief for Special Issues of Pattern Recognition Letters, Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition, Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Scien ce, and has been guest editor of several Special Issues of high-ranked journals. Maria has been member of the Editorial Board of the IEEE Biometrics Compendium and Editor in Chief of IEEE Biometrics Council Newsletter. She has been co-editor with Michele Nappi (University of Salerno) and Massimo Tistarelli (University of Sassari) of the book "Face recognition in adverse conditions" published by IGI Global, and with Michele Nappi (University of Salerno) Hugo Proença (University of Beira Interior) of the book “Human Recognition in Outdoor Unconstrained Environments - Using Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning Methods for Biometrics” edited by Elsevier – Academic Press. She is Program co-Chair of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods - ICPRAM since 2013. Maria is Member of IEEE (The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers), ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), CVPL ( former GIRPR - Italian Group of Researchers in Pattern Recognition), and EAB (European Association for Biometrics). ... More >>

Gabriella Sanniti Di Baja Italian National Research Council CNR Italy

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Gabriella Sanniti di Baja, born in 1950, received the laurea degree (cum laude) in physics from the "Federico II University" of Naples, Italy, in 1973, and the PhD honoris causa from the Uppsala University, Sweden, in 2002. Since 1973, she has been working in the field of image processing and pattern recognition at the Institute of Cybernetics E. Caianiello of the Italian National Research Council, where she is director of research. Her current research interests include 2D and 3D shape representation and analysis. She has published a number of papers in international journals and conference proceedings, is the c oeditor-in-chief of Pattern Recognition Letters, has been President of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR) as well as of the Italian Group of Researchers in Pattern Recognition (GIRPR), is IAPR Fellow and Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Sciences at Uppsala, Sweden. ... More >>

George Azzopardi University of Groningen, Netherlands and University of Malta Malta http://www.cs.rug.nl/~george

Brief Bio
George Azzopardi is an associate professor in pattern recognition at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. He is the coordinator of the Applied AI theme of the Jantina Tammes School of Digital Society, Technology and AI. Prof Azzopardi earned a BSc degree (Hons) from Goldsmiths College, an MSc degree from Queen Mary University of London, and a PhD degree (cum laude) in computer science from the University of Groningen in 2013. Prof Azzopardi has (co-) authored over 90 peer-reviewed publications and has successfully (co-) promoted 7 PhD candidates. His research spans brain-inspired pattern recognition, i mage processing, machine/deep learning, and information retrieval, with application to medical, forensic and radioastronomy image analysis. His work led to him being a co-recipient of the Ben Feringa Impact Award from the University of Groningen in 2023 and the ENLIGHT Impact Award from the ENLIGHT European University in 2024. Currently, Prof Azzopardi serves as associate editor for the Q1 journal, Pattern Recognition. ... More >>