Prof. Fabio Galasso (https://fgalasso.bitbucket.io/) heads the Perception and Intelligence Lab (https://www.pinlab.org/) at the Computer Science Department of Sapienza University in Rome (Italy), with the goal of fundamental research and innovation transfer in computer vision and machine learning. Prior to Sapienza, he conducted research at the University of Cambridge (UK) and at the Max Planck Institute for Informatics (Germany). Research achievements include 4 national (German) and 2 international (European) funded research projects. He has been lead area chair, area chair and industrial chair at top international conferences, co-organizer of international workshops, schools and national conferences.
Besides academics, Prof. Galasso founded and directed the Computer Vision Department at OSRAM (Munich, Germany), world-wide leader in photonics. He cared about the entire life cycle of ideas, from the creation of new value propositions to the implementation of prototypes and pilots. Innovation transfer achievements include pilot installations at large industrial partners such as Edeka and Vodafone and the creation of a new product, named VISN, which was awarded the 2019 IoT/WT Innovation World Cup, the 2019 Digital Champions Award, and the 2018 Deutscher Digital Award. He is the inventor of 23 granted patents.
Prof. Galasso is co-founder and co-director of ItalAI S.r.l. Sapienza start-up (https://italailabs.com/).