Rita Cucchiara information

Rita Cucchiara
Cucchiara in 2016
Born	1965 (age 58–59) Modena, Italy
Alma mater	University of Bologna University of Ferrara
Known for	Artificial intelligence and deep learning algorithms for human behavior understanding
Awards	2018 Women in Robotics You Need To Know - Robohub, 2018 Maria Petrou Prize of IAPR, 2016 Facebook Artificial intelligence Research Grant
Scientific career
Fields	Computer engineering
Institutions	University of Modena and Reggio Emilia

Rita Cucchiara (born 1965)^[1] is an Italian electrical and computer engineer, and professor in Computer engineering and Science in the Enzo Ferrari Department of Engineering at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia (UNIMORE) in Italy. She helds the courses of “Computer Architecture” and “Computer Vision and Cognitive Systems”. Cucchiara's research work focuses on artificial intelligence, specifically deep network technologies and computer vision for human behavior understanding (HBU) and visual, language and multimodal generative AI. She is the scientific coordinator of the AImage Lab at UNIMORE and is director of the Artificial Intelligence Research and Innovation Center (AIRI) as well as the ELLIS (European Labs of Learning and Intelligent Systems) Unit at Modena. She was founder and director from 2018 to 2021 of the Italian National Lab of Artificial Intelligence and intelligent systems AIIS of CINI. Cucchiara was also president of the CVPL (Italian Association of Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Pattern Recognition) from 2016 to 2018. Rita Cucchiara is IAPR Fellow since 2006 and ELLIS Fellow since 2020.