Short Curriculum Vitae of Primo Zingaretti                                         


Università Politecnica delle Marche
Facoltà di Ingegneria
DIIGA – Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Gestionale e dell’Automazione
via brecce bianche 60131 Ancona, Italy
Phone:      +39 071 2204 899
Fax:           +39 071 2204 474
E-Mail:      zinga*at*diiga.univpm.it

Status

  • Doctoral Degree (Laurea) in Electronic Engineering  from the University of Ancona in 1984
  • Consultant of Istituto di Informatica, University of Ancona (1985 – 1987)
  • Consultant of INRCA, Ancona and Collaborator of Istituto di Informatica, University of Ancona (1987 - 1990)
  • Research & Development engineer at the University of Ancona (1990 –2001)
  • Senior researcher at the Polytechnic University of Marche, formerly University of Ancona (2002 - present)
  • Professor of "Fondamenti di Informatica - Computer science basics", "Informatica grafica - Computer graphics" (academic year 2002/03 - present) and of "Strumenti e metodi per la simulazione - Simulation tools and methods" (academic year 2003/04 - present) at the Polytechnic University of Marche

Organization

  • Promoter and Director of two EURON ("EUropean RObotics research Network") summer schools "Perception and Sensor Fusion in Mobile Robotics – PSFMR", both with the leading researchers in the mobile robotics and computer vision fields as instructors. They were held, respectively, in Ancona, September 1-7, 2005 (http://psfmr.univpm.it/2005/) and Fermo, September 11-16, 2006 (http://psfmr.univpm.it/)
  • Among the promoters of the "European Conference on Mobile Robots – ECMR", which brought together the communities of two past events, the European Symposium on Intelligent Robotics Systems (SIRS) and the European workshop on advanced mobile robotics (EUROBOT). In particular, Program Chair of the first edition - ECMR'03 in Warsaw, September 4-6, 2003, (http://ecmr.ippt.gov.pl/), General Chair of the second edition - ECMR’05 in Ancona, September 7-10, 2005 (http://ecmr05.univpm.it/) and in the Conference Board of the third edition – ECMR’07 in Freiburg, September 19-21, 2007 (http://ecmr07.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/orga.html)
  • Chair of the Symposium "Mechatronic and Embedded System Applications" in the conference MESA’07, Las Vegas, September 4-7 2007 (http://www.asmemesa.org/mesa07/)
  • Member of various Programme Committees of national and international conferences and workshops
  • Reviewer of various international scientific journals
  • Member of the Scientific Board of the PhD School in Artificial Intelligent Systems at the Polytechnic University of Marche (2003 - present)
  • Senior Member of the IEEE - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (since 1990), promoter of AI*IA - Associazione Italiana di Intelligenza Artificiale, member of the GIRPR - Gruppo Italiano Ricercatori in Pattern Recognition (formerly IAPR-IC –Italian Chapter of the IAPR - International Association for Pattern Recognition Italian)

Research

  • Main research interests in the areas of: artificial intelligence, robotics, computer vision, pattern recognition, image and signal processing, image understanding and retrieval, learning, and e-government
  • Main application areas in robotics, medical imaging, map and character recognition, m-government
  • Research supported by contracts with universities, the Italian Ministry of Research and University, the Italian National Research Council and the European Union.
  • Guest Editor of two special issues on the journal "Robotics and Autonomous Systems", published by Elsevier, and reviewer of many journals/conferences
  • Co-Editor of two Conference Proceedings (ECMR03 and ECMR05) and of the book "Machine Learning and Perception", Series in Machine Perception and Artificial Intelligence, vol. 23, World Scientific Publ. Co., Singapore, ISBN 981-02-2642-X, 1996.
  • Author or co-author of about one hundred scientific research papers in English and of two teaching books in Italian: P.Zingaretti, "Fondamenti di Computer Graphics", Pitagora Editrice Srl, Bologna, ISBN 88-371-1486-9, 2004 and P.Zingaretti, E.Frontoni, "Informatica: tematiche generali", Edizioni Simple, Macerata, ISBN 978-88-89177-79-2, 2006

Teaching

 

Last update March 17, 2007