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  3. GRECO ANTONIO
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Curriculum

ANTONIO GRECO Curriculum

Antonio Greco graduated cum laude in Computer Engineering in 2014 at the University of Salerno (Italy). In March 2018 he received the PhD in Computer Science and Information Engineering from the same university. In March 2020 he became a Researcher RTD/A (SSD ING-INF/05 "Information Processing Systems") at the Department of Information and Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics (DIEM) at the University of Salerno, where he is now a Researcher RTD/B since November 2022. In the same department he has held the position of Delegate for Incoming Orientation since November 2022, while since May 2024 he has been a member of the Doctoral Board in Information Engineering.

He is or has been a teacher for the Department of the courses in Logical Networks (SSD ING-INF/05, Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering), Autonomous Vehicle Driving, (SSD ING-INF/05, Master's Degree in Computer Engineering), Software Technologies for the Web (SSD ING-INF/05, Bachelor's Degree in Computer Engineering), Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity (SSD ING-INF/05, Master's Degree in Computer Engineering), Robotics for E-Health (SSD ING-INF/05, Master's Degree in Digital Health and Bioinformatic Engineering), Security of Systems and Networks (SSD ING-INF/05, Master's Degree in Computer Engineering), Artificial Vision (SSD ING-INF/05, Master's Degree in Computer Engineering), Natural Language Processing and Large Language Models (SSD ING-INF/05, Master's Degree in Computer Engineering). Since the academic year 2021/2022 he is also the holder of the Advanced Machine Learning course in the PhD in Information Engineering accredited by the Ministry (D.M.226/2021).

Since 2014 he has been a member of the research group MIVIA Lab (Intelligent Machines for the Recognition of Video, Images and Audio) of the Department of Information and Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics of the University of Salerno, characterized by a strong vocation for international collaborations. His research activities are mainly focused in the areas of Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition and, more specifically, on the design, implementation and optimization of computer vision and deep learning algorithms (gender recognition, age estimation, ethnicity recognition, emotion analysis, fire detection, anomaly detection, people counting, object tracking, audio event recognition) in real time on data acquired by static devices (smart cameras, microphones) or in motion (drones, robots, autonomous vehicles). These activities were sometimes carried out in collaboration with European research groups, in particular with the University of Malta, the University of Groningen (Netherlands) and the University of Twente (Netherlands); in the latter he spent a total of 9 months (from January to April 2020 and from August 2021 to February 2022) as a Visiting Researcher, collaborating in the teaching and research activities of the group within the Data Management and Biometrics Group, in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science.

In recent years he has organized several Special Issues for international journals, including a Special Issue of the international journal Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing on the topic “Ambient Understanding for Mobile Autonomous Robots (AutoRob)", a Special Issue of the international journal Pattern Recognition on the topic “From bench to the wild: Recent Advances in Computer Vision methods (WILD-VISION)" and a Special Issue of the international journal Pattern Analysis and Applications on the topic “Special Issue on Pedestrian Attribute Recognition and Person Re-Identification".
Since March 2024 he is Associate Editor of the international journal Pattern Analysis and Applications. He is also a reviewer for over 25 international journals.

He has presented scientific papers in over 10 international conferences and served as Contest Chair in various international conferences. In particular, he organized the Guess the Age (GTA) Contest 2021 within the International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP); he co-organized the ONFIRE 2023 contest within the International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing (ICIAP); he co-organized the 2023 Pedestrian Attributes Recognition (PAR) Contest 2023 within the CAIP conference. He was also a member of the Local Committee of the International Workshop on Graph-based Representations (GBR), organized in Capri, Italy, from May 16 to 18, of the International Conference on Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP), organized in Salerno, Italy, from September 2 to 6, 2019, of the IEEE Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Situation Management (CogSIMA), organized in Salerno, Italy, from June 6 to 10, 2022 and of the International Workshop on Graph-based Representations (GBR), organized in Salerno, Italy, from September 6 to 8. In 2021 he was Invited Speaker at the Workshop on CogSIMA Challenge Problems within the IEEE Conference on Cognitive and Computational Aspects of Situation Management (CogSIMA), with a talk entitled "Adding awareness to AI systems".

In the context of national and international research projects, he was scientific manager of the local research unit of the Department of Information and Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics (DIEM) for the PON ARS01_01226 project "PerMedNet – Personalized medicine for innovative strategies in neuro-psychiatric and vascular diseases", as well as scientific manager of work packages WP4 and WP5 within the European research project "Flexible assembly manufacturing with human-robot collaboration and digital twin models" (FELICE, Grant Agreement ID: 101017151, funded by H2020-EU.2.1.1). In terms of research agreements, he was the scientific manager for the Department of Information and Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics of the scientific research contract with the company RED&BLUE for the project "Creation of a platform for the evaluation of the safety of artificial intelligence systems".

In the field of technology transfer, in December 2019 he was a founding member of AI-READY, a spinoff of the University of Salerno specialized in artificial intelligence applications for cognitive robotics, mobility and autonomous driving vehicles.