Alessandro Vinciarelli is lecturer at the University of Glasgow and Senior Researcher of the Idiap Research Institute. His main research interest is Social Signal Processing, the new domain aimed at bringing social intelligence in computers. A.Vinciarelli is coordinator of the FP7 Network of Excellence SSPNet (www.sspnet.eu), and is, or has been, Principal Investigator of several national and iternational projects. He has authored and co-authored more than 50 publications, including one book and 18 journal papers. Alessandro has organized a large number of international workshops, he is co-chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on SSP and he is Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine for the social sciences. A. Vinciarelli is founder of a knowledge management company (Klewel) recognized with several national and international prizes (www.klewel.com) |