Department of Business, Economics, Law, Marketing, and Consumer Behaviour, IULM University, Italy
Alessandro Bruno earned a Ph.D. in computer engineering from the University of Palermo (Italy). He is a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in the Department of Business, Law, Economics, and Consumer Behavior at IULM University in Milan, Italy. Before joining IULM, Alessandro worked for Humanitas University in Milan for the Department of Computing and Informatics at Bournemouth University, the National Centre for Computer Animation (NCCA) in the UK, the Italian National Institute for Astrophysics (INAF IASF), the University of Palermo, and the Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale della Sicilia (Italy). Dr Bruno was a Research Visitor at the Mullard Space Science Laboratory (MSSL), University College London (UCL), where he worked with the imaging group led by Professor Jan-Peter Muller. He has authored over 80 international publications and is an Associate Editor for multiple international journals. He is the Principal Investigator of a project funded by the NGI-Search consortium, titled "HeReFaNMi" (Health-Related Fake News Mitigation).
His research interests encompass computer vision, artificial intelligence, and image analysis, focusing on visual attention and saliency, biomedical imaging, crowd behaviour analysis, image and video forensics, remote sensing, and human-computer interaction.