Curriculum Vitae

June 14, 2026


Table Of Contents

1 Short biography
2 Teaching and support activities
3 Education and research activities in national and international institutes
4 National and international research projects
5 Participation in national and international research groups
6 Participation as a speaker in international conferences
7 Awards for the research activities
8 Professional activities
9 Research activity
10 Publications

1 Short biography
1.1 Contact Information

Ruggero Donida Labati
Associate Professor
Università degli Studi di Milano
Department of Comput Science
Via Celoria 18 - 20133 Milano (MI) - Italy
Telephone: +39 02 503 16377
Web: http://homes.di.unimi.it/donida
Email: ruggero.donida AT unimi.it

1.2 Education
1.3 Employment history

2 Teaching and support activities
2.1 Responsible for courses

Teacher for the following graduate course, Laurea Magistrale in Artificial Intelligence for Science and Technology, Università degli Studi di Milano, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, and Università degli Studi di Pavia:

Teacher for the following undergraduate course, Laurea in Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano:

Teacher for the following course, Specialization School of Medical Physics, Università degli Studi di Milano:

Teacher for the following undergraduate course, Laurea in Mathematics, Università degli Studi di Milano:

2.2 Teaching activities for Ph.D. programs

Coordinator for the following course, Ph.D. School in Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano:

Teacher for the following courses, Ph.D. School in Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano:

Teacher for the following course, Ph.D. School in Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Siena:

2.3 Teaching activities for International Summer Schools

Teacher for the following course, 4EU+ Summer School on Artificial Intelligence, Gargnano del Garda, Italy, August 15--19, 2022:

2.4 Supervisor of Ph.D. thesis

Supervisor of a student of the Ph.D. School in Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano:

Co-supervisor of a student of the Ph.D. School in Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano:

2.5 Supervisor of theses
Supervisor of several theses at the national Ph.D. program in Cybersecurity (Ph.D.-CySec):

Co-supervisor of several theses at the Università degli Studi di Milano, Department of Computer Science:

Co-supervisor of one thesis at the Università degli Studi di Milano, Department of Biomedical Sciences for Health.

The theses have mainly regarded innovative methods for biometric recognition systems, original algorithms for image processing, innovative methods based on computational intelligence techniques, and studies on operating systems. Some relevant topics are the following ones: innovative algorithms for touchless fingerprint recognition, original methods for processing iris images acquired in non-ideal conditions, and original methods for the automatic analysis of blood samples.

2.6 Other teaching activities

Support to teaching activities for the following courses, at the Università degli Studi di Milano (Art. 45 of the Regolamento Generale di Ateneo, ex-Art. 47 of the Regolamento Generale di Ateneo):

Teaching tutor for the following courses, at the Università degli Studi di Milano (Art. 45 of the Regolamento Generale di Ateneo, ex-Art. 47 of the Regolamento Generale di Ateneo):

3 Education and research activities in national and international institutes
3.1 Participation in international schools
3.2 Visit in international research centers
3.3 Courses on teaching activities

4 National and international research projects

Principal investigator of research projects funded by the Università degli studi di Milano

Responsibility of research projects funded by the Università degli studi di Milano

Responsibility of research projects funded by the Italian Ministry of Research

Participation as researcher in international research projects funded by the European Commission

Participation as researcher in national research projects funded by the Italian Ministry of Research

Participation as researcher in research projects funded by the Università degli Studi di Milano

Participation as researcher in national research projects funded by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation

Participation as researcher in international research projects funded by other international institutions

Participation as researcher in research projects funded by industries

5 Participation in national and international research groups
5.1 Organizational activities for research laboratories
5.2 Collaboration with national and international research groups
Some of the research activities have been carried out within national and international projects, in cooperation with the following institutes:

6 Participation as a speaker in international conferences

Seminars on the following research topics:

Invited keynote speaker at the following conferences:

Invited speaker at the following conference:

He presented 28 papers of which he is a coauthor in international scientific conferences.

7 Awards for the research activities

8.1 Associations
8.2 Organizational activities in scientific associations
Chair: Vice-Chair: Secretary: Member: Webmaster:
8.3 Organization of international conferences

Program co-chair:

Area co-chair:

Special session co-chair:

Organizer of special sessions:

Program committee member:
International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy — ICISSP; (2027); International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence — ICAART (2027, 2020, 2019, 2018); International Conference on Computer Vision Theory and Applications — VISAPP; (2027, 2025, 2024); International Conference on Security and Cryptography — SECRYPT (2026, 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013); IEEE International Conference on Automatic Face and Gesture Recognition— FG ; (2026); International Conference on Image Processing and Vision Engineering— IMPROVE; (2026); WISTP International Conference on Information Security Theory and Practice — WISTP (2024, 2019, 2018, 2017); International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Smart Systems; — ICSCSS (2024); International Conference on Communication, Information and Computing Technology; —ICCICT (2024); International Conference on Intelligent Computing, Information and Control Systems — ICICCS (2024, 2022); IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications — IEEE TrustCom (2023, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2017, 2016, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011); International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks — EANN (2023, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2015, 2013); Modern Artificial Intelligence and Data Science Systems; — MAIDSS (2023); International Conference on Intelligent Environments; — IE (2023); International Conference on Information Technology; — InCITe (2023); International Conference on Augmented Intelligence and Sustainable Systems — ICAISS (2022); International Conference on Evolutionary Computing and Mobile Sustainable Networks — ICECMSN (2022); International conference on Electronics and Sustainable Communication Systems — ICESC (2022, 2021, 2019); IEEE International Conference on Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing — IEEE UIC (2022, 2021); International Conference on IoT Based Control Networks and Intelligent Systems — ICICNIS (2022); International Conference on Intelligent Computing and Control Systems — ICICCS (2022); International Conference on Soft Computing for Security Applications — ICSCS (2022); International Workshop on Biometrics and Forensics — IWBF (2022); International Conference on Computing Methodologies and Communication — ICCMC (2022, 2021); International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Application Technologies — AIAT (2021, 2020); IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence: IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Biometrics and Identity Management — IEEE CIBIM (2021, 2020, 2019, 2015); International Conference on Robotics and Intelligent Control — ICRIC (2021); International Symposium on Computer Science and Intelligent Control — ISCSIC (2021, 2020, 2019); International Conference on Mining Intelligence & Knowledge Exploration — MIKE (2021); IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Virtual Environments for Measurement Systems and Applications — IEEE CIVEMSA (2021, 2020, 2014, 2013); International Conference on Big Data, Machine Learning & Their Applications — ICBMA (2021); International Conference on Edge Computing and Cloud Technologies — ICECT (2021); International Conference on Advanced Computational and Communication Paradigms — ICACCP (2021, 2019); Artificial Intelligence International Conference — A2IC (2020, 2018); International Symposium on Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications — ISTA (2020, 2017, 2016); IEEE Intelligent Systems — IEEE IS (2020, 2016); International Conference on Computational Science — ICSS (2020, 2019); IEEE International Instrumentation and Measurement technology Conference — IEEE IM2TC (2020); International conference on Electronics and Sustainable Communication Systems — ICESCS (2020); International Symposium on Computer Science and Intelligent Control — ISCSIC (2020, 2019); International Conference on Image, Video and Signal Processing — IVSP (2020); International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications — ICPRAM (2020, 2019, 2018); Symposium on Emerging Topics in Computing and Communications — SETCAC (2019, 2018, 2016); International Workshop on Trust, Security and Privacy for Big Data — TrustData (2019, 2017); International Conference on Intelligent Technologies and Applications — INTAP (2019, 2018); International Conference on Emerging Security Information, Systems and Technologies — SECURWARE (2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012); International Conference on Innovation and Intelligence for Informatics, Computing, and Technologies — 3ICT (2019); International Workshop on Mobile Applications — MobiApps (2019, 2017, 2014); IEEE Smart World Congress — SmartWorld (2019, 2018); IEEE International Conference on Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing — IEEE DASC (2019, 2018, 2017, 2016); IEEE International Symposium on INnovations in Intelligent SysTems and Applications — IEEE INISTA (2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014); International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Applications — INTELLI (2019, 2018); Engineering Applications of Neural Networks / Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations — AIAI (2019, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012); International Conference on Advanced Cognitive Technologies and Applications — COGNITIVE (2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015); International Conference on Advances in Computing, Communications & Informatics — ICACCI (2018, 2016, 2014); International Conference on Network and System Security — NSS (2018, 2017, 2016); International Symposium on Cloud Computing and Cyber-Security — SCCCS (2018, 2017); International Conference on Computational Science — ICCS (2018, 2017, 2016, 2015); Advanced Doctoral Conference on Computing, Electrical and Industrial Systems — DoCEIS (2018, 2017, 2016); Multidisciplinary International Conference of Research Applied to Defense and Security — MICRADS (2018); International Conference on Computing Analytics and Networking — ICCAN (2017); IEEE Symposium on Computational Intelligence for Security and Defense Applications — IEEE CISDA (2017, 2016, 2014); International Symposium on Computer Science and Intelligent Controls (2017); International Conference on Recent Advancements in Computer, Communication and Computational Sciences — RACCCS (2017, 2016); International Workshop on Cyber-Security in IoT-based Healthcare Systems & Cloud Computing — CS-HSC (2017); IEEE Workshop on Environmental Energy and Structural Monitoring Systems — IEEE EESMS (2017, 2016, 2015); International Conference on Information Systems Security — ICISS (2016); IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics — IEEE SMC (2016); IEEE International Conference on Open Source Systems and Technologies — IEEE ICOSST (2016); International Workshop on Trust, Security and Privacy for Big Data — BigTrust (2016); International Conference on Computer, Communication and Computational Sciences — ICCCCS (2016); International Conference on Applied and Theoretical Computing and Communication Technology — iCATccT (2016, 2015); International Conference on Computing, Communication and Automation — ICCCA (2016, 2015); International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing — ICAISC (2015); International Symposium on Web of Things — WoTBD (2015); World Congress IMEKO (2015); IEEE International Conference on Autonomic and Trusted Computing — IEEE ATC (2014, 2013); IEEE Workshop on Biometric Measurements and Systems for Security and Medical Applications — IEEE BioMS (2014, 2013, 2012); International Conference on Computer and Communication Technology — ICCCT (2014, 2013, 2012); International Conference on Electronic Publishing and Information Technology — ICEPIT (2014); IEEE International Conference on Smart Instrumentation, Measurement and Applications — IEEE ICS IMA (2013); IEEE International Symposium on Trust, Security and Privacy for Emerging Applications — IEEE TSP (2013); IEEE International Conference on Green Computing and Communications — IEEE GreenCom (2013); IEEE International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Measurement Systems and Applications — IEEE CIMSA (2012, 2011); IEEE International Conference on Virtual Environments, Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems — IEEE VECIMS (2012); International Conference on Autonomous and Intelligent Systems — AIS (2012).

Local arrangement chair:

Publicity chair:

Treasurer:

8.4 Editorial activity
Associate Editor of the following international journals: Guest editor of the following special issue in international journal:

Member of the Editorial committee of the following special book:

Member of the Editorial committee of the following special issue:

Reviewer for several international journals:
IEEE Transactions on Image Processing; IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics & Security; IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems; IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurements; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems; IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computational Intelligence; IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science; IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence; IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems; IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing; IEEE Transactions on Technology and Society; IEEE Access; IEEE Computer; IEEE Systems Journal; IEEE Sensors Journal; IEEE Sensors Letters; IEEE Internet of Things Journal; IEEE Electronics Letters; ACM Computing Surveys; ACM Transactions on Privacy and Security; ACM Transactions on Intelligent Systems and Technology; Elsevier Computers & Security; Elsevier Image and Vision Computing; Elsevier Pattern Recognition; Elsevier Pattern Recognition Letters; Elsevier Signal Processing; Elsevier Computer Vision and Image Understanding; Elsevier Information Sciences; Elsevier Biosystems Engineering; Elsevier Information & Communications Technology Express; Elsevier Journal of Information Security and Applications; Elsevier Forensic Science International; Elsevier Technology in Society; Elsevier Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineering; Elsevier Expert Systems with Applications; Springer Soft Computing; Springer Medical & Biological Engineering & Computing; Springer Neural Computing and Applications; Springer The Visual Computer; Springer Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Humanized Computing; Springer International Journal of Computer Assisted Radiology and Surgery; IET Biometrics; IET Image Processing; IET Computer Vision; IET Signal Processing; Wiley ETRI Journal; EURASIP Journal on Information Security; SPIE Optical Engineering.

8.5 University services

9 Research activity

The research activity achieved innovative results in different aspects of techniques and systems for intelligent signal and image processing; with the main focus on theoretical aspects, methodologies, technologies, and applications in the contexts of industrial, environmental and biometric applications.

Original adaptive methods (mostly based on deep learnin, artificial neural networks, statistical approaches, and knowledge extraction techniques) permitted to obtain efficient and optimized solutions in intelligent systems for information processing. In this field, he mostly focused on machine learning approaches for designing robust artificial neural networks, and on data analysis methods based on fuzzy logic.

The high robustness of the realized adaptive methods permitted to considerably reduce the operational and environmental constraints, guaranteeing high accuracy at the same time. The research performed in this field permitted to obtain relevant improvements of the human-machine interaction in the context of industrial applications, as well as in biometric recognition systems. In particular, he realized biometric recognition methods able to sensibly reduce the operational constraints with respect to the state of the art, and innovative techniques for the privacy protection of biometric data (based on cryptographic algorithms). These methods can increase the usability and acceptability of the systems in a relevant manner, without decreasing the recognition accuracy, thus representing enabling technologies for high-security applications and ambient intelligence scenarios.

Furthermore, he applied the obtained results to realize innovative solutions for the industrial and environmental monitoring, also in the context of projects financed by the European Commission.

9.1 Biometric systems
The research activity regarded the realization of innovative methods and algorithms for biometric systems applied for verification and identification, considering physiological as well as behavioral traits. He realized original methods for multidimensional signal processing and computational intelligence techniques for touchless biometric systems based on three-dimensional models. He considered the following biometric traits: fingerprint, iris, face, cardiac signals, voice, and soft-biometric traits (e.g., height, weight, and age). He also proposed innovative methods for protecting the privacy of biometric data, continuous identity verification techniques, and methods for improving the accuracy and usability of biometric technologies used in automatic border control systems, in ambient intelligence scenarios, and in forensic applications.
  • Touchless fingerprint recognition and 3D-based methods
    He realized innovative biometric recognition methods based on the analysis of fingerprint images acquired using touchless techniques. In particular, he realized original hardware and software for high-security systems, which reconstruct and process three-dimensional finger models. He also implemented innovative techniques for extracting sweat pore features, and recognition techniques integrable in mobile devices. He validated the implemented methods using real data as well as innovative virtual environments for simulating three-dimensional fingerprint samples. Furthermore, he proposed quality assessment methods for touchless fingerprint samples.
  • Iris recognition in non-ideal conditions
    The main focus of the research has been on adaptive algorithms for iris segmentation in ocular images acquired in uncontrolled conditions. He realized innovative methods robust to samples affected by poor illumination, occlusions (as eyelids, eyelashes, hairs, and glasses), gaze deviation with respect to the camera, low resolution, motion blur, and sensor noise. The achieved results permitted to participate to the international competition NICE.I (Noisy Iris Challenge Evaluation), sponsored by Elsevier Science and organized by the Soft Computing and Image Analysis Group (SOCIA Lab), Department of Computer Science, University of Beira Interior, Portugal (http://nicel.di.ubi.pt). The approach was ranked in the top 8 (out of 97), which were invited to submit a paper on the techniques to the special issue on “Iris Images Segmentation” of the “Image and Vision Computing” journal. The paper was subject to regular rigorous review process and was accepted. He also created a dataset of ocular images collected from websites and social media, which represent one of the biggest collections of iris samples coupled by the corresponding manually created segmentation masks.
  • Face analysis
    The goals of the research activity consisted of designing novel approaches for identifying persons deceased in traumatic conditions and in techniques to extract soft biometric characteristics from face samples. The considered characteristics are the beauty, age, and expression. All the studies based on face images are based on deep neural networks.
  • Continuous authentication and recognition of cardiac signals
    The main goal consisted of realizing innovative biometric recognition methods based on strong biometric traits acquirable continuously during time. He proposed methods for identity verification, identification, and continuous verification based on electrocardiographic as well as pletismographic signals. He also realized a system for estimating the driver attention level from PPG signals.
  • Privacy protection of biometric data
    He analyzed different aspects of privacy and security, realizing innovative techniques to perform biometric recognitions in the encrypted domain and approaches for deidentifying the iris characteristics in high-resolution images colled from websites and social media.
  • Biometric systems for automated border controls
    He analyzed in depth the biometric systems currently used at international border controls with the goal of improving their usability and accuracy. In particular, he realized original adaptive methods to improve the usability and accuracy of fingerprint recognition systems, and algorithms for increasing the accuracy of biometric systems already deployed in real scenarios, which are compliant with the current international regulations and guidelines for privacy protection.
  • Biometric systems for ambient intelligence scenarios
    With the purpose of increasing the applicability of the biometric technologies in ambient intelligence scenarios, he realized novel methods for the analysis of physiological and behavioral characteristics, which can be used in uncontrolled scenarios characterized by uncooperative users. In particular, he proposed methods for the speaker identification integrable in devices with limited computational resources, methods for the analysis of soft-biometric traits from face images characterized by strong non-idealities, and methods for estimating the height and weight from frame sequences of walking individuals.
9.2 Computational intelligence techniques, architectures, and applications

The research activity regarded computational intelligence methods, with particular attention to the artificial neural networks. In this context, he analyzed different approaches from the theoretical, architectural and applicative points of view, realizing innovative methods for identification, classification, control, prediction, and multidimensional signal processing.

In particular, the realized innovative methods have permitted to create advanced industrial applications for monitoring production processes, environmental control, and quality evaluation.

  • Theoretical contributions to the design and optimization of systems
    He analyzed intelligent methods for implementing and configuring optimized digital architectures, from the theoretical, architectural, and methodological points of view. In this context, he mainly considered applications based on computational intelligence, as artificial neural networks and fuzzy logic. In particular, he analyzed techniques for classification, approximation, prediction, estimation of three-dimensional models, control, and multidimensional signal processing (one dimensional signals, images, and three-dimensional models). He mainly focused on five topics: 1) adaptive methods for enhancement and feature extraction designed for multidimensional signals; 2) classification methods for particularly noisy signals acquired in non-ideal conditions; 3) measurement methods based on heterogeneous signals acquired using low-accuracy sensors; 4) three-dimensional reconstruction methods based on images acquired using multiple cameras; 5) prediction methods for time series characterized by high level of noise and missing data.
  • Industrial applications
    With the goal of acquiring the experience needed to design innovative and general methods, and to test their efficiency in contexts characterized by particularly noisy data, he analyzed, experimentally evaluated and implemented real application scenarios based on multidimensional signal processing. He applied design methodologies for intelligent systems for the analysis, feature extraction, fusion, and classification of complex data in industrial applications of computer vision. He realized a deep learning approach to detect anomalities in iron production. He studied models for designing bridges. He realized methods to process multidimensional signals collected from heterogeneous sources, like wireless antennas and radars. He realized an innovative and fully automatic system for the real-time classification of wood samples based on the spectral fluorescence analysis. He proposed neural techniques for contactless measuring the volume of heterogeneous objects by analyzing multiple-view images. He realized innovative methods for three-dimensional particle size measurement based on computational intelligence techniques and image processing. He also realized a virtual environment for simulating falling particles, which has been used to design and optimize the final measurement system. Moreover, he used computational intelligence techniques to analyze big sets of data acquired from heterogeneous sources. In particular, he realized expert systems based on fuzzy logic for the analysis of geographical data, and proposed innovative methods based on artificial neural networks for predicting the production of renewable energy. Furthermore, the research activity regarded the automatic classification of cells affected by leukemia in microscopic images of blood samples. In this context, he collaborated in creating a public database of images, which become a reference point for the international research community studying image processing techniques for detecting the presence of cells affected by leukemia.
  • Environmental applications
    He realized innovative algorithms, computational intelligence methods, and simulation techniques for environmental monitoring systems. The main focus consisted of systems for monitoring wildfires based on low-cost cameras.
9.3 Industrial research and development

From June to November 2008, he worked for the company Harding-IT S.R.L., Crema, Italy, performing research activities on micrometric laser measurement systems. He has been involved in the study, design, experimentation, and implementation of advanced algorithms for processing signals acquired by different kinds of sensors in micrometric laser measurement machines, mainly designed for mechanic and advanced manufacturing In this collaboration, he implemented a software for the evaluation of the measurement systems uncertainty, cooperating with Prof. Giulio Barbato of Politecnico di Torino, Italy.

10 Publications

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