Marco Cristani (M’06) received the Laurea degree in 2002 and the Ph.D. degree in 2006, both in Computer Science from the Università di Verona, Verona, Italy. He was a visiting Ph.D. student at the Computer Vision Lab, Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Systems School of Engineering (IRIS), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 2004–2005.

He is now Assistant Professor with the Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Verona, Italy, working with the Vision, Image Processing and Sounds (VIPS) Lab and Team Leader with the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genova, IIT.

His main research interests include statistical pattern recognition, generative modeling via graphical models, and nonparametric data fusion techniques, with applications on social signalling, surveillance, segmentation, and image and video retrieval.

He is the author of several papers in the above subjects and a reviewer for several international conferences and journals.