Giovanni Maria Farinella obtained the degree in Computer Science (egregia cum laude) from the University of Catania, Italy, in 2004. He is Founder Member of the IPLAB Research Group at University of Catania since 2005. He also became an Associate Member of the Computer Vision and Robotics Research Group at University of Cambridge in 2006, and Associate Member of the Italian National Research Council since 2018. He was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy (Computer Vision) from the University of Catania in 2008. He is Full Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Catania, Italy. His research interests lie in the fields of Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, with focus on First Person (Egocentric) Vision. He is Associate Editor of the international journals IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Pattern Recognition - Elsevier , International Journal of Computer Vision. He has been serving as Area Chair for CVPR 2020/21/22/23, ICCV 2017/19/21/23, ECCV 2020, BMVC 2020, WACV 2019/22, ICPR 2018, and as Program Chair of ECCV 2022, ICIAP 2021 and VISAPP 2019/20/21/22/23. Giovanni Maria Farinella founded (in 2006) and currently directs the International Computer Vision Summer School. He also founded (in 2014) and currently directs the Medical Imaging Summer School. He is member of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS), Senior Member of the IEEE Computer Society, Scientific Advisor of the NVIDIA AI Technology Centre (NVAITC), and board member of the CINI Laboratory of Artificial Intelligence and Intelligent Systems (lead of the area AI for Industry - since 2021). He was awarded the PAMI Mark Everingham Prize 2017 and the Intel's 2022 Outstanding Researcher Award. In addition to academic work, Giovanni's industrial experience includes scientific advisorship to different national and international companies and startups, as well as the leadership as Founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Next Vision - Spinoff of the University of Catania.

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Giovanni Maria Farinella has got the National Scientific Qualification to Associate Professor (ASN - Seconda Fascia) in the areas of Information Engineering (SSD 09/H1) and Computer Science (SSD 01/B1) on 03/12/2013 and 29/01/2014 respectively.

He has got the National Scientific Qualification to Full Professor (ASN - Prima Fascia), in the areas of Computer Science (SSD 01/B1) and Information Engineering (SSD 09/H1) on 28/03/2018 and 26/07/2018 respectively.