cv

This is a summary of my (positive) CV beyond the publications.

General Information

Full Name Massimiliano Mancini
Languages Italian, English

Education

  • 2020
    Ph.D. in Engineering in Computer Science
    Sapienza University of Rome (Rome, Italy)
    • advised by Prof. Barbara Caputo and Prof. Elisa Ricci
  • 2016
    Master of Science in Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
    Sapienza University of Rome (Rome, Italy)
  • 2014
    Bachelor degree in Computer and Electronic Engineering
    University of Perugia (Perugia, Italy)

Research Experience

  • 2023-now
    Assistant Professor (RTDa)
    University of Trento
  • 2020-2023
    Postdoctoral Researcher
    University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany)
    • within the Explainable Machine Learning group of Prof. Zeynep Akata
  • 2020
    Visiting Ph.D. student
    University of Tübingen (Tübingen, Germany)
    • within the Explainable Machine Learning group of Prof. Zeynep Akata
    • part of the ELLIS exchange framework
  • summer 2018
    Visiting Ph.D. student
    KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Stockholm, Sweden)
    • within the Robotics Perception and Learning laboratory (RPL)
    • advised by Dr. hakan Karaoguz and Prof. Patric Jensfelt
  • 2019-2020
    Research Fellow
    Italian Institute of Technology (Turin, Italy)
    • within the Visual and Multimodal Applied Learning (VANDAL) of Prof. Barbara Caputo
  • 2017-2020
    Research Collaborator
    Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Trento, Italy)
    • within the Technologies of Vision laboratory (TeV) led by Dr. Stefano Messelodi

Awards and Acknowledgements

  • Outstanding editor
    • ICRA 2024
  • Outstanding reviewer
    • CVPR 2019, 2021, 2022
    • ICCV 2019, 2021
    • ICML 2022
    • NeurIPS 2023
  • Ph.D. Thesis Award 2020
    • Awarded to the best Ph.D. theses defended at the Sapienza University of Rome between January 2017 and December 2020.
  • Best Paper Award Honorable mention
    • ECCV 2018 Workshop on Transferring and Adapting Source Knowledge in Computer Vision
    • For the work "Adding New Tasks to a Single Network with Weight Transformations using Binary Masks"
  • Reading group competiton winner
    • International Computer Vision Summer School 2018 (Scicli, Italy)
    • Member of the winning team of the reading group competition, with Julian Zilly, Amit Boyarski, Micael Carvalho, Amir Atapour Abarghouei, Konstantinos Amplianitis, Aleksandr Krasnov, Hern ́an Gonzalez, Riccardo Spezialetti, Carlos Sampedro Pérez.

Research grants

  • 2022-2023
    Innovation Grants for Science/Life Science
    University of Tübingen
    • Project title: Trustworthy and Dynamic Compositional Recognition

Services

  • Editorial activities
    • Guest Editor for the Special Issue on Multimodal Learning, International Journal of Computer Vision
    • Associate Editor for Computer Vision and Image Understanding
    • Action Editor for Transactions on Machine Learning Research
  • Area chair
    • ICRA 2024
    • CVPR 2024
    • ECCV 2024
    • NeurIPS 2024
  • Reviewer for
    • Journals: IEEE T-PAMI, IJCV, T-IP, TMM, CVIU, MVA, IEEE RA-L, IEEE T-RO, TMLR, IEEE T-NN, Pattern Recognition, Neural Networks, IET Computer Vision, Frontiers in CS, Engineering Reports, IJMLC.
    • Conferences: CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, AAAI, ICRA, IROS, ACM-MM, ICPR, ACCV, GCPR, WACV, BMVC, CoLLAs, CAI.
  • Evaluator for
    • IMPRS-IS (2021-2023)
    • ELLIS PhD program (2022)
  • Student volunteer for
    • ICCV 2017

Organization

  • Conferences
    • Publicity/Web Chair for ICIAP 2019
  • Workshops
    • 1st International Workshop on Industrial Machine Learning (at ICPR 2020)
    • 2nd International Workshop on Industrial Machine Learning (at ICPR 2022)
    • 5th Multimodal Learning and Applications Workshop (at CVPR 2022)
    • Workshop on Weakly Supervised Computer Vision (at Deep Learning Indaba 2022)
    • Explainability in Machine Learning Workshop (Tübingen, March 2023)
    • 1st Workshop on Green Foundation Models (at ECCV 2024)
  • Tutorials
    • Transferring Knowledge Across Domains: an Introduction to Deep Domain Adaptation (at ICIAP 2019)
    • Visual Recognition Beyond the Comfort Zone: Adapting to Unseen Concepts on the Fly (at ICCV 2023)
  • Symposium
    • Computer Vision Trento Symposium (Trento, June 2024)

Invited talks

  • 2019
    AdaGraph: Unifying Predictive and Continuous Domain Adaptation through Graphs
    CVPL highlights, ICIAP
  • 2021
    Open World Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
    EPFL Computer vision talks
  • 2021
    Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
    2D3DAI
  • 2022
    On the challenges of Open World Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
    Bosch Industry-on-Campus (IoC) Lab
  • 2023
    Compositional Zero-Shot Learning
    National AI PhD Fall School
  • 2023
    Vocabulary-free Image Classification
    1st Year Joint workshop of FAIR and ELLIS, Trento
  • 2024
    Opening multimodal doors with language: from recognition to bias detection
    7th Multimodal Learning and Applications Workshop (at CVPR 2024)

Teaching

  • Jul. 2021
    Deep Learning beyond the Closed World
    Summer School on Complex Networks and Telecommunications, Como School of Advanced Studies
    • Ph.D.
  • Oct.-Dec. 2021
    Seminars on Learning with Limited Labeled Data
    University of Tübingen
    • MSc and BSc, 28 hours, 3 credits.
  • Aug.-Sep. 2023
    Visual Recognition beyond the Closed World
    IECS Doctoral School, University of Trento
    • PhD., 20 hours, 3 credits.
  • WS 2023/24
    Trends and Applications of Computer Vision
    University of Trento
    • MSc, (40 hours, 20 mine), 3 credits.

Supervision

  • Ph.D. students
    • Simone Caldarella (University of Trento, with Elisa Ricci)
    • Thomas De Min (University of Trento, with Elisa Ricci)
  • MSc students
    • Fabio Cermelli (Politecnico di Torino)
    • Dario Fontanel (Politecnico di Torino)
    • Alessandro Rizzuto Cermelli (University of Trento)
    • Debora Caldarola (Politecnico di Torino)
    • Giuseppe Pastore (Politecnico di Torino)
    • Robin M. Schmidt (University of Tübingen)
    • Michael Gröger (University of Tübingen)
    • Marco Garosi (University of Trento)
    • Francesco Gentile (University of Trento)

Others

  • Membership
    • ELLIS society
    • ELLIS Unit Trento
    • Computer Vision Foundation