Personal profile: Lamberto Ballan

Lamberto Ballan is an Associate Professor of computer science at University of Padova, Italy, where he leads the Visual Intelligence and Machine Perception (VIMP) group. Previously, he was a senior postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University and University of Florence, Italy, supported by a prestigious Marie Curie Fellowship from the European Commission. He received the Laurea and Ph.D. degrees in computer engineering in 2006 and 2011, both from the University of Florence, and was also a visiting scholar at the Signal and Image Processing department at Telecom Paris, France, in 2010. His primary research area is computer vision, closely integrated with the fields of machine learning, robotics and multimedia. The main focus of his current research is to go beyond narrow and passive methods, toward embodied multimodal and multitask vision models that can actively operate in the real world. Dr. Ballan has published more than 80 papers in the most prestigious journals and conferences in computer vision, pattern recognition, machine learning and multimedia. He received the IVC best paper award 2021, and he has been an ELLIS member since 2021.

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