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  3. SAGGESE Alessia
  4. Curriculum

Curriculum

Alessia SAGGESE Curriculum

Alessia Saggese received the Master's Degree (cum laude) in Computer Engineering from the University of Salerno in 2010.

In February 2014 she received a double PhD degree, jointly issued by the University of Salerno and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Ingénieurs de Caen et Centre de Recherche (ENSICAEN), University of Caen Basse Normandie, France. The research project of her thesis was awarded by the “Università Italo Francese” – “Université Franco Italienne” (UIF-UFI) within the Vinci Call and by the Gruppo Italiano Ricercatori in Pattern Recognition (GIRPR), the Italian chapter of the IAPR, for the best PhD thesis in Italy in the two-year period 2014-2016.

From April 2015 to December 2018 she was RTD-A at the Department of Information Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics (DIEM) of the University of Salerno. From December 2018 to December 2021 she was RTD-B, from December 2021 to date she is Associate Professor at DIEM. Since 2018 she has been president of the Outgoing Orientation and Relations with Companies committee of DIEM and since 2019 she has been the delegate for Technology Transfer of DIEM.

Her research activities mainly concern computer vision algorithms and artificial intelligence for intelligent audio and video surveillance applications, cognitive robotics and autonomous driving vehicles. She is co-author of over 110 publications in international journals and conference proceedings, many of which in collaboration with prestigious foreign universities.

In 2016 and 2017 she is Co-Chair of a contest and a workshop organized within the IEEE ICPR and IEEE AVSS conferences, respectively. In 2018 she is Area Chair of the IEEE AVSS conference (section Surveillance Systems and Applications) and in 2021 of the ICIAP conference (section Brave New Ideas). She has served in the local Committee of several contests, workshops and international conferences (including GBR 2017 and CAIP 2019). She is member of several Program Committees, serves as reviewer for several international journals and has been Associate Editor of the IEEE Access journal since 2019.