Alessandro Verri

Alessandro Verri has been a Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Genoa since 2000. After obtaining his degree and PhD in Physics at the University of Genoa, he held several postdoctoral, visiting scientist, and visiting professor positions at MIT, where he taught Networks for Learning with Tomaso Poggio for three years. He was a postdoctoral researcher at ICSI in Berkeley and a visiting scholar at INRIA IRISA in Rennes and at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.

His research interests focus on the theoretical and applied aspects of computation, with particular emphasis on computer vision and machine learning. His publications have received approximately 16,000 citations, and his h-index is 48. He has supervised 20 PhD students and has coordinated and participated in numerous international and national research projects, both foundational and oriented toward technology transfer.

He has taught courses on topics such as Introduction to Programming, Computer Architectures, Information Theory and Inference, and Analysis and Design of Algorithms at the undergraduate level in Computer Science, as well as Computer Vision, Digital Signal Processing, Machine Learning, and Reinforcement Learning at the graduate level in Computer Science. He served as Head of Department from 2007 to 2012 and as Coordinator of the Computer Science degree programs from 2017 to 2022 and again starting in 2025.