Alessandro Bruno

Alessandro works with the Faculty of Communication at IULM University (Milan, Italy) as a Tenured-Track Assistant Professor. He leads the following units: ‘data mining and text analytics’ and ‘artificial Intelligence laboratory’ within the Artificial Intelligence for Business and Society Programme. He is a computer engineer doctor, covering several postdoc positions in Italy (University of Palermo, INAF - Italian National Institute for Astrophysics) and the UK (Research Associate at NCCA - National Centre for Computer Animation and Bournemouth University’s Department of Computing) since 2012 through 2020. Alessandro was a research visitor at UCL (University College London) in 2019. In 2021, he was a Lecturer in Computing at Bournemouth University, where he served until May 2022. He was also a Co-Investigator of a European Research Project, namely, s4allcities. In 2021, Alessandro was awarded the best paper prize at the ICIAP (International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing) workshop HBAxSCES (Human Behaviour Analysis for Smart City Safety Environment). Since 2011, he has worked on visual attention-related topics such as visual saliency, infrared and webcam-based eye-tracking, image enhancement for colour perception for people with CVD (Color Vision Deficiency), and webcam-based eye-tracking.