Marcello Pelillo, Biographical Sketch

I've held visiting research/teaching positions at the following institutions:

• University of York, Department of Computer Science, York, England
  (Summers 1995 and 1996)

• McGill University, Center for Intelligent Machines, Montreal, Canada
  (October-November 1995, December 2008-January 2009)

• Universität Wien, Institut für Statistik, Operations Research und Computerverfahren, Vienna, Austria
  (January 1997 and June 1999)

• Yale University, Department of Computer Science, New Haven, CT, USA
  (August 1997-January 1998 and July-August 1998)

• University College London, Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, London, England
  (September 2000)

• NICTA, Australian ICT Center of Excellence, Canberra, Australia
  (February 2009)

I am the Scientific Coordinator of the EU FP7 SIMBAD Project.

I am a Fellow of the IAPR and a Senior Member of the IEEE.

Professional services

Editorial boards

• Editorial Board Member for the journal IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence

• Editorial Board Member for the journal Pattern Recognition

• Guest editor for the journal Pattern Recognition, Vol. 33, No. 4, April 2000.
  Special issue on "Energy minimization methods in computer vision and pattern recognition"
  [Editorial]

• Guest editor for the journal IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Vol. 23, No. 10, October 2001.
  Special issue on "Graph algorithms in computer vision"
  [Editorial]

• Guest editor for the journal IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence,
  vol. 25, no. 11, November 2003 (Part I). [Editorial]
  vol. 26, no. 2, February 2004 (Part II) [in press].
  Special issue on "Energy minimization methods in computer vision and pattern recognition"

• Guest editor for the journal Pattern Recognition,
  Special issue on "Symilarity-based Pattern Recognition"
  [in preparation]

Program co-chair

• EMMCVPR'97: 1st International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  Venice, Italy, May 21-23, 1997

• MAX-CLIQUE'97: A Workshop on the Maximum Clique Problem and Its Application
  Trieste, Italy, June 17-18, 1997

• EMMCVPR'99: 2nd International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  York, UK, July 26-29, 1999

• NIPS*99 Workshop on Complexity and Neural Computation: The Average and the Worst Case
  Breckenridge, CO, December 4, 1999

• International Workshop on Early Vision: Computational and Biological
  Bertinoro, Italy, May 28 - June 1, 2005.

Program committee member

• IEEE Workshop on Graph Algorithms and Computer Vision
  Corfu, Greece, September 21, 1999.

• ICPR'2000: 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition
  Barcelona, Spain, September 3-7, 2000.

• EMMCVPR'01: 3rd International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  Sophia-Antipolis, France, September 3-5, 2001.

• CVWW'02: 7th Computer Vision Winter Workshop
  Bad Ausee, Austria, February 4-7, 2002.

• EMMCVPR'03: 4th International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  Lisbon, Portugal, July 7-9, 2003.

• GbR 2003: 4th IAPR Workshop on Graph-based Representations in Pattern Recognition
  York, UK, June 30 - July 2, 2003.

• SPPRA 2003: IASTED International Conference on Signal Processing, Pattern Recognition, and Applications
  Rhodes, Greece, June 30 - July 2, 2003.

• First IAPR Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition
  Florence, Italy, September 12-13, 2003.

• ICPR 2004: 17th International Conference on Pattern Recognition
  Cambridge, UK, August 23-26, 2004.

• PRIS 2004: The Fourth International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems
  Porto, Portugal, April 13-14, 2004.

• CVPR 2004: IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  Washington, DC, June 27-July 2, 2004.

• EMMCVPR'05: 5th International Workshop on Energy Minimization Methods in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  St. Augustine, FL, November 9-11, 2005.

• PRIS 2005: The Fifth International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems
  Miami, FL, May 24-25, 2005.

• CVPR 2005: IEEE Computer Society Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition
  San Diego, CA, June 20-26, 2005.

• ICCV 2005: Tenth IEEE International Conference on Computer Vision
  Beijing, China, October 15-121, 2005.

• ECCV 2006: Ninth European Conference on Computer Vision
  Graz, Austria, May 7-13, 2006.

• PRIS 2006: The Sixth International Workshop on Pattern Recognition in Information Systems
  Paphos, Cyprus, May 2006.

• Second IAPR Workshop on Artificial Neural Networks in Pattern Recognition
  Günzburg, Germany, August 31 - September 2, 2006

Referee

• IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
• IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
• IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems
• IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging
• Proceedings of the IEEE
• Computer Vision and Image Understanding
• Image and Vision Computing
• Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision
• IEE Proceedings: Visual, Image and Signal Processing
• Journal of Artificial Neural Networks
• Neural Processing Letters
• Neurocomputing
• Pattern Recognition
• Pattern Recognition Letters
• Journal of Global Optimization
• SIAM Journal on Optimization
• Annals of Operations Research
• Discrete Applied Mathematics
• Algorithmica
• Computational Optimization and Applications
• Journal of Mathematical Psychology

Invited lectures

Invited talks at international conferences

• 12/95: NIPS*95 Workshop on Optmization-Problem Solving with Neural Networks, Vail, Colorado, USA
• 12/95: Second Asian Conference on Computer Vision (ACCV'95), Singapore
• 3/99: International Conference on Approximation and Complexity in Numerical Optimization, Gainesville, Florida, USA
• 10/01: NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Limitations and Future Trends in Neural Computation, Siena, Italy.

Invited seminars (1995-)

• 9/95: Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
• 10/95: Dipartimento di Matematica Applicata e Informatica, Universita' Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Italy
• 10/95: McGill Center for Intelligent Machines, Department of Electrical Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
• 5/96: Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informatica, Universita' di Padova, Italy
• 7/96: Department of Computer Science, University of York, United Kingdom
• 1/97: Institut fur Statistik, Operations Research und Computerverfarhen, Universitat Wien, Austria
• 2/97: Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Trento, Italy
• 10/97: Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, USA
• 10/97: Center for Computational Vision and Control, Department of Computer Science, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA
• 6/99: Institut fur Statistik, Operations Research und Computerverfarhen, Universitat Wien, Austria
• 10/99: Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informatica, Universita' di Padova, Italy
• 10/99: Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Bologna, Italy
• 12/99: Corso di Laurea in Scienze dell'Informazione, Universita' di Bologna, Sede di Cesena, Italy
• 9/00: Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, University College London, United Kingdom
• 9/00: Department of Computer Science, University of York, United Kingdom
• 9/00: Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering, University of Surrey, Guildford, United Kingdom
• 10/00: Institute of Computer Aided Automation, Vienna University of Technology (TU-Wien), Vienna, Austria
• 10/00: INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France
• 10/00: Scuola IAPR "La Visione delle Macchine 2000", Universita' di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy
• 2/01: Dipartimento di Sistemi e Informatica, Universita' di Firenze, Italy
• 3/01: Dipartimento di Biologia, Universita' di Bologna, Italy
• 12/01: School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
• 10/03: Dipartimento di Informatica, Universita' di Verona, Italy
• 11/03: Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell'Informazione, Universita' di Genova, Italy
• ?????/08: Institut fur Statistik, Operations Research und Computerverfarhen, Universitat Wien, Austria
• 6/08: Department of Computer Science, University of California at Berkeley, USA
• 1/09: School of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, Canada (SOCS Colloquium)
• 2/09: NICTA, Canberra, Australia