Bio

Associate Professor at Electronic & Electrical Departement at UCL

Deputy-Director of IMLS MSc Programme at UCL

ELLIS (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligient Systems) Fellow [2025-now]. Google DeepMind Visiting Research Scientist [2024-2025]. Turing Fellow Alumni at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK National Institute for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence [2020-2024]

I graduated from University of Bologna in 2005 (MS degree) and 2009 (PhD degree). I was then a PostDoc for one year at the University of California, San Diego, working with Prof. L. Milstein and Prof. P. Cosman and for three years at the EPFL working with Prof. P. Frossard.

I am the Principal Investigator at LASP (Learning And Signal Processing) at the Electronic Engineering Department at University College London. My major research contributions are in the area of coding and streaming technologies, machine learning for immersive communications, decision-making strategies under uncertainty, and large-scale signal processing.

Most recent publications

Google Scholar

Most recent projects

EPSRC Accelerating the Medicines Revolution Outline Small Grants, “Graph based machine learning to infer selective toxicity of infectious diseases drug targets”, 2024-2025.

Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowships, “DREAM - Data Communication, Processing, and Delivery in the Era of Machines”, 2023-2024.

EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account Grant, “A real-world dataset to drive innovation of personalized media systems”), 2022.

SFI-EPSRC Research Standard Grant, “Spherystream”, 2021-2023.

Teaching

I teach the following courses:

Advanced Machine Learning Systems - ELE0135

Natural Language Processing - ELEC0141

Service

Conference Organization

• General Co-Chair at ACM MM 2026
• TPC Co-Chair at ACM MM 2022
• Keynot Co-Chair at ACM MMSys 2022
• General Co-Chair at ACM MMSys 2020
• Co-Organizer, “The power of graphs in machine learning and sequential decision-making” workshop, in collaboration with Lille – France, July 2019.
• Co-Organizer, “Emerging Technology for the Performing Arts” workshop where artists, technologists and engineers came together to explore the application and development of emerging technology for the performing arts.
• TPC Co-Chair of ACM MMSys 2019 Conference.  Top-tier conference in multimedia systems, with a unique opportunity to interact both with academics and industrial partners. $18'500 funding obtained for organizing the first women in SIGMM event at a MMsys conference.
• Tutorial Co-Chair of ACM Multimedia 2020
• Area Chair. ACM International conference on Interactive Media Experience (IMX 2020)
• TPC Member: IEEE ICIP, IEEE ICASSP, IEEE ICME, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE MMSP, ACM MMSyS, ACM MM.

Special Session Organization

• Co-Chair, “Visual Communication with 6 DoF”, EUVIP 2019.
• Co-Chair, “When Graph Signal Processing meets Computer Vision”, ICCV 2021 Workshop.
• Presenter, “Graph signal processing for machine learning: A review and new perspectives”, ICASSP 2021 Tutorial.

Equality Diversity and Inclusion Roles

• Diversity and Inclusion co-Chair of MMSYS 2021
• Diversity and Inclusion Chair of PIMRC 2020
• Diversity and Inclusion co-Chair, IEEE ICME 2021
• TPC co-Chair with diversity and Inclusion responsibilities, ACM MMSYS 2020
• Co-Chair, IEEE Women’s workshop on Communications and Signal Processing, 2013.

Journal editorship

• Department Editor for IEEE Multimedia Magazine, 2021-present
• Associated editor for EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2017-2020
• Associated editor for IEEE Transaction on Image Processing, 2017-present
• Guest editor for “IEEE COMSOCMTC E-Letter” special issue on interactive multi-view video services: from acquisition to rendering, 2016.

Special issues – Guest Editor

• “Best Papers from the ACM Multimedia Systems 2019 and Co-Located Workshops”, ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing, Communications, and Applications, 2020.
• **“**Interactive multi-view video services: from acquisition to rendering”, E-Letter, IEEE COMSOC, 2016

Commission of Trust

• ELLIS (European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems) Member, 2020 - present
• Alan Turing Fellow, 2021-present
• Member of the MMSys Steering Committee, 2020- present
• EURASIP Technical Area Committee on Signal and Data Analytics for Machine Learning, 2021 – present.
• IEEE MMSP (Multimedia Signal Processing) Technical Committee (MMTC), 2018 – 2020.
• SIGMM Executive Committee for SIGMM, 2021-present.
• IEEE Senior Member, 2019-present
• IEEE Member, 2012-2019

Expert for:

• EPSRC, 2018-present
• BSF (United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation), 2021-present
• IET, 2019-present
• EURASIP JASP Best Paper Award, 2019-present
• SIGMM Student travel grants, 2019-present

Reviewer for:

IEEE Transactions on Communication, IEEE Transactions on Broadcasting, IEEE Communication Letters, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, Image and Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation

NeurIPS, ICLR, AISTATS, IEEE INFOCOM, IEEE ICIP, IEEE ICASSP, IEEE ICME, IEEE GLOBECOM, IEEE ICC, IEEE VTC, IEEE WCNC, IEEE MMSP, ACM Multimedia, IEEE GlobalSIP

• Chairing Sessions: ICASSP 2020, MMSys 2019, IEEE ISWCS 2009, SPAW 2008.