Vincenzo Piuri

{{short description|Italian scientist and electrical engineer}}

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Vincenzo Piuri ({{IPA|it|vinˈtʃɛntso ˈpjuːri}}) is an Italian scientist. He is an IEEE Fellow{{Cite web|url=https://www.ieee.org/membership/fellows/fellows-directory.html|title=IEEE Fellows Directory|website=IEEE|access-date=2018-08-30}} and an ACM Distinguished Scientist.{{Cite web|url=https://awards.acm.org/distinguished-members/award-winners|title=Recipients|website=awards.acm.org|language=en|access-date=2018-08-30}} He is known for his work in the field of information processing, with specific focus on artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, signal/image processing, biometrics, industrial applications, measurement systems, arithmetic units and fault-tolerant architectures.

Piuri was elected for 2021–22 IEEE Region 8 Director-Elect (2023–24 IEEE Region 8 Director).{{Cite web|url=https://www.ieee.org/about/corporate/election/candidates.html|title=Annual Election Candidates|website=IEEE|access-date=2020-04-16}}

Education and career

Piuri studied Electronic Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Milan, where he also obtained a Ph.D. in Electronic Engineering in 1989. Since 2000, he is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Milan. Piuri was also visiting professor at the University of Texas in Austin and at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.

He was the co-founder and president of Sensure, a start-up company in the area of intelligent systems for industrial applications.{{URL|http://www.sensure.it/}}

Scientific production

Vincenzo Piuri published 395 scientific papers{{Cite web|url=https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?origin=resultslist&authorId=35426171300|title=Scopus preview - Scopus - Author details (Piuri, Vincenzo)|website=www.scopus.com|language=en-US|access-date=2018-08-30}} in international journals and conferences and he is listed as one of the top Italian scientist in engineering.{{Cite web|url=http://www.topitalianscientists.org/TIS_HTML/Top_Italian_Scientists_Engineering.htm|title=Top Italian Scientists Engineering|website=www.topitalianscientists.org|access-date=2018-08-30}}

He has been editor-in-chief of the [http://www.ieeesystemsjournal.org/ IEEE Systems Journal] (2013-2019). He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computers{{Cite web|url=https://www.computer.org/web/tc/|title=IEEE Transactions on Computers • IEEE Computer Society|website=www.computer.org|language=en-US|access-date=2018-08-30}} (since 2014), the [https://www.computer.org/web/tcc/ IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing] (since 2016), and [https://link.springer.com/journal/500 Soft Computing]{{Cite web|url=https://www.springer.com/engineering/computational+intelligence+and+complexity/journal/500?detailsPage=editorialBoard|title=Soft Computing – incl. option to publish open access (Editorial Board)|website=springer.com|language=en|access-date=2018-08-30}} (Springer, since 2011). He served as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks (2001–04), the [https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture Journal of Systems Architecture] (Elsevier, 2001–04) and the [http://tim.ieee-ims.org/ IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement] (1997-2002).

= Books =

Vincenzo Piuri co-authored four research books:

  • (2015) Touchless Fingerprint Biometrics, CRC Press, {{ISBN|9781498707619}}{{Cite book|title=Touchless fingerprint biometrics|last=Donida|first=Labati, Ruggero|others=Piuri, Vincenzo,, Scotti, Fabio|isbn=9781498707626|location=Boca Raton|oclc=915134967|date=2015-08-14}}
  • (2014) Touchless Palmprint Recognition Systems, Springer, {{ISBN|978-3-319-10364-8}}{{Cite book|title=Touchless palmprint recognition systems|author=Genovese, Angelo|others=Piuri, Vincenzo,, Scotti, Fabio|isbn=9783319103655|location=Cham|oclc=891380511|date=2014-09-15}}
  • (2013) 3D Surface Reconstruction, Springer, {{ISBN|978-1-4614-5631-5}}{{Cite book|title=3D surface reconstruction : multi-scale hierarchical approaches|date=2013|publisher=Springer|others=Bellocchio, Francesco, 1980-|isbn=9781461456322|location=New York|oclc=820329416}}
  • (2013) Semantic Analysis and Understanding of Human Behavior in Video Streaming, Springer, {{ISBN|978-1-4614-5485-4}}{{Cite book|title=Semantic analysis and understanding of human behavior in video streaming|last=Alberto|first=Amato|date=2013|publisher=Springer|others=Di Lecce, Vincenzo., Piuri, Vincenzo.|isbn=9781461454861|location=New York, NY|oclc=811563979}}

Awards

Vincenzo Piuri is an IEEE Fellow,{{Cite web|url=https://www.ieee.org/membership/fellows/fellows-directory.html|title=IEEE Fellows Directory|website=IEEE|access-date=2018-08-30}} an ACM Distinguished Scientist{{Cite web|url=https://awards.acm.org/distinguished-members/award-winners|title=Recipients|website=awards.acm.org|language=en|access-date=2018-08-30}} and an [https://www.inns.org/ International Neural Network Society] (INNS) Senior Member.{{Cite web|url=https://www.inns.org/senior-members|title=Senior Members|last=Wagner|first=Marianne Van|website=www.inns.org|language=en-us|access-date=2018-08-30}} He is an IEEE Eta Kappa Nu alumnus.

He received the IEEE Technical Activities Board Hall of Honor (2019), the IEEE Systems Council Outstanding Service Award (2018), the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Distinguished Service Award (2008), and the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society Technical Award (2002).

He has been appointed as Honorary Professor at Northeastern University (Shenyang, China, 2018), Amity University (Noida, India, 2017), Muroran Institute of Technology (Japan, 2016), Obuda University (Budapest, Hungary, 2014), and Guangdong University of Petrochemical Technology (Maoming, China, 2014).

Services

Vincenzo Piuri is a long-time member of the IEEE, which he served in many different roles. He was IEEE Vice President for Technical Activities (2015) and in the Technical Activities Strategic Planning Committee (2016, chair; 2011-2014, member). He was IEEE Director (2010-2012, 2015) and member of the IEEE Strategic Planning AdHoc Committee (2014, 2016).

He is President of the IEEE Systems Council (2020-2021). He was President of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (2006-2007), where he also served as Vice President for Members Activities (2003-2004). He is the founder and co-chair{{Cite web|url=https://environmental.ieee.org/about/committee-members?highlight=WyJwaXVyaSJd|title=Committee Members - IEEE Environmental Engineering|website=IEEE|language=en-gb|access-date=2018-08-30}}{{dead link|date=July 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} of the IEEE Environmental Engineering Initiative (since 2016). He was member of the Steering Committee of the [https://iot.ieee.org/ IEEE Internet of Things Initiative] (2016). He was Founding Chair of both of the IEEE Systems Council Italy Chapter (2008-2009) and the IEEE Biometrics Council Italy Chapter (2009). He was Vice Chair of the IEEE NTDC Technical Committee on Biometrics (2005-2008) and contributed to the creation of the [http://ieee-biometrics.org/ IEEE Biometric Council] (2006-2008). He was Funding Co-Chair of the Technical Committee on Intelligent Measurement Systems of the IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Society (1997-2002). He also served as Co-Chair of the Technical Activity Committee on Defect Tolerance of the IEEE Computer Society Test Technology Technical Committee (1995-2006).

He served in the IEEE MGA Strategic Direction and Environmental Assessment Committee (2016), the IEEE Publication Services and Products Board (2013), the IEEE PSPB Strategic Planning Committee (2013, 2009–11), and the IEEE TAB/PSPB Products & Services Committee (2013, 2008–09, 2005–06). He has been Chair of the IEEE Awards Board Technical Field Awards Council (2017–18), where he also served as member (2014-2015, 2006-2008).

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