Speaker

Cosimo Distante

• General Chair
• Cosimo Distante is a Director of Research at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) and Head of the Unit of the Institute of Applied Sciences and Intelligent Systems (ISASI-CNR). He received his MSc in Computer Science from the University of Bari and a PhD in Engineering from the University of Salento, Italy. His research focuses on Artificial Intelligence, Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, Machine Learning, and Robotics, with a strong emphasis on developing deep learning algorithms for intelligent perception systems. He was a visiting researcher at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, where he also served as Teaching Assistant for the Master’s course in Artificial Intelligence. In 2001, he joined CNR, and since 2003 he has been a Contract Professor at the University of Salento, teaching Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Dr. Distante is the founder of Taggalo, a CNR spin-off, and received the National Innovation Prize from Telecom Italia (PNI-Cube) in 2011 and the ChallengUP Award (Cisco, Intel, and Deutsche Telekom) in 2015. He has served as General Chair of major international conferences including ACIVS 2016, IEEE AVSS (2017, 2021, 2026), and ICIAP 2022, and as Program Chair of IMPROVE. He is an active member of the program committees of CVPR, ECCV, ICCV, WACV, and other leading conferences in AI and vision. Dr. Distante also acts as expert advisor on innovation and research for MIUR, MIMIT, and regional agencies, contributing to the advancement of Italy’s national strategy on artificial intelligence and applied science.

• https://www.isasi.cnr.it
• cosimo.distante@cnr.it