Dal 2024 sono Professore Associato presso l’Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia, dove mi occupo di Deep Learning, integrazione Vision-and-Language, modelli su larga scala e multimedia. Insegno nei corsi di “Computer Vision and Cognitive Systems”, Scalable AI e Architettura dei Calcolatori. I miei interessi di ricerca coprono diverse aree, tra cui integrazione Vision-and-Language, Multimodal Retrieval, Image and Video Captioning, allineamento visivo-semantico, sviluppo di modelli su larga scala, HPC ed Embodied AI. I have authored more than 140 publications in international journals and conferences. Currently, I serve as an Associate Editor for Computer Vision and Image Understanding and Pattern Recognition and act as an Area Chair for ICCV and major multimedia conferences. I am also a Scholar in the ELLIS society (European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems), where I coordinate the Modena ELLIS Unit. Since 2021, I have held the position of deputy director at the Interdepartmental Center on Digital Humanities at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. Earlier in my career, in 2017, I worked at the Facebook AI Research laboratory in Paris under the supervision of Hervé Jégou. During that time, I worked on the development of a video-matching algorithm that was adopted in production on the social network to detect abusive content.