News in 2020

  • Leila De Floriani

    • Elevated to Fellow of the European Graphics (Eurographics), Association, May 2020.
    • Inducted as Member the IEEE Visualization Academy, October 2020.
    • General Co-Chair, Computational Visual Media Conference, Macao, 2020.
    • Member, Computing Research Association Board, appointed in January 2020.
    • Invited Talk. Topology-based clustering methods for geospatial data analysis, IEEE Vardhaman College of Engineering and IEEE Hyderabad Section, August 2020.
    • Invited talk, Topology-based approaches to data analysis, IEEE YESIST12 , August 2020.
    • Invited talk, Topology-based approaches to data visualization, Women in Engineering, Global Summit 2020, November 2020.
    • Invited talk, Mesh-based approached to modeling point clouds for geospatial applications, IEEE Computer Society Japan Chapter, December 2020.
    • Invited talk, Diversity and Inclusion Activities in the IEEE Computer Society, Women in Engineering International Leadership Summit, December 2020.
  • Yunting Song is awarded the GIS Summer Research Fellowship by the Department of Geographical Sciences, University of Maryland, May 2020.

  • Paper entitled “A Persistence-Based Approach for Individual Tree Mapping” by Xin Xu, Federico Iuricich and Leila De Floriani was awarded the best paper runner-up at ACM SIGSPATIAL 2020.

  • Ulderico Fugacci appointed as tenured research scientist at the Italian National Research Council, Genova July 2020.

  • Sara Scaramuccia got a postdoc position at the Department of Mathematics, Polytechnic University of Torino (Italy), September 2020.