Speaker

Andrea Cavallaro

• Invited Speaker
• Andrea Cavallaro is the Director of the Idiap Research Institute and a Full Professor at EPFL. He is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, the International Association for Pattern Recognition, and ELLIS. His research focuses on machine learning for multimodal perception, computer vision, machine listening, and information privacy. He received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from EPFL in 2002, was a Research Fellow at British Telecommunications, and in 2010 became Full Professor at Queen Mary University of London, where he founded the Centre for Intelligent Sensing and served as Director of Research (2012–2023). From 2018 to 2023, he was also a Turing Fellow at The Alan Turing Institute. Prof. Cavallaro has received multiple awards, including the Royal Academy of Engineering Teaching Prize and several IEEE Best Paper Awards. He served as IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer (2020–2021), Chair of the IEEE Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing Technical Committee, and Senior Area Editor of IEEE Transactions on Image Processing. He is the author of Video Tracking (Wiley, 2011) and co-editor of books on multi-camera networks, multimedia retrieval, and intelligent surveillance. His contributions have significantly advanced multimodal sensing and privacy-aware AI systems.

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