2025 – 2026: Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Directions Board.
2025 – 2026: Chair of the IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) Technical Committee (IEEE Signal Processing Society).
2024 – 2025: Member of the IEEE Challenges and Data Collection Committee (IEEE Signal Processing Society).
2024 – 2024: Elected Vice-Chair of the IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) Technical Committee (IEEE Signal Processing Society).
2023 – Today: Elected Treasurer of the IEEE CAS Chapter Central and South Italy (IEEE Circuits and Systems Society).
2023 – Today: Chair of the Task Force on Computational Audio Processing of the IEEE Intelligent System Applications Technical Committee (IEEE Computational Intelligence Society).
2022 – 2024: Member of the IEEE SPS Ethics Guidelines ad hoc Committee (IEEE Signal Processing Society).
2019 – Today: Elected member of the IEEE Nonlinear Circuits and Systems (NCAS) Technical Committee (IEEE Circuits and Systems Society).
2019 – Today: Elected member of the IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP) Technical Committee (IEEE Signal Processing Society).
2018 – 2020: Elected member of the Steering Committee of the Italian Section of the Audio Engineering Society (AES).
2018 – Today: Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
2017 – Today: Elected member of the Task Force on Computational Audio Processing of the IEEE Intelligent System Applications Technical Committee (IEEE Computational Intelligence Society).
Associate Editor
2024 – Today: Area Editor for IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
2022 – Today: Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.
2021 – 2024: Associate Editor for the speciality in Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing – Frontiers in Signal Processing.
2021 – 2023: Associate Editor for Elsevier Digital Signal Processing.
2018 – 2020: Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, I: Regular Papers.
2017 – 2022: Academic Editor for Hindawi Complexity.
Volume Editor
2017 – 2018: Volume Editor for the book “Adaptive Learning Methods for Nonlinear System Modeling”, D. Comminiello and J. C. Principe eds., Elsevier, June 2018.
Guest Editor for Special Issues
2023: Guest Editor of the Special Issue on “Entropy and Information Theory in Machine Learning: Theoretical Insights and Applications” for MDPI Entropy, with Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, and Nithin V George.
2021: Guest Editor of the Special Issue on “Adaptive Signal Processing and Machine Learning Using Entropy and Information Theory” for MDPI Entropy, with Tokunbo Ogunfunmi, David Luengo and Nithin V George.
2018: Guest Editor of the Special Issue on “Advances in Complex Systems and its Applications to Cybersecurity” for Hindawi Complexity, with Fernando Sánchez Lasheras and Aljcia Krzemień.
Organizing Committee Member
General Chair of the INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2025), Rome, Italy, June 30 - July 5, 2025.
Symposium Chair of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2025) for the IEEE Symposium on CI in Image, Signal Processing and Synthetic Media (IEEE CISM), Trondheim, Norway, March 17–20, 2025.
General Chair of the 33rd IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2023), Rome, Italy, Sep. 17–20, 2023.
Data Competition Chair of the 32nd IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2022), Xi’an, China, Aug. 22–25, 2022.
Data Competition Chair of the 31st IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2021), Gold Coast, Australia, Oct. 25–28, 2021.
Member of the Organizing Committee of the XXXIV Riunione Annuale dei Ricercatori di Elettrotecnica (ET 2018), Rome, Italy, Jun. 14–15, 2018.
Challenge Organization
Signal Processing Grand Challenge “L3DAS23: Learning 3D Audio Sources for Audio-Visual Extended Reality” at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023), Rhodes Island, Greece, June 4–10, 2023. Co-organizer: Christian Marinoni, Riccardo Fosco Gramaccioni (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Changan Chen (UT Austin, TX, USA).
Signal Processing Grand Challenge “L3DAS22: Machine Learning for 3D Audio Signal Processing” at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2022), Singapore, May 22–27, 2022. Co-organizer: Eric Guizzo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Xinlei Ren (Kuaishou Technology, China), Bruno Masiero (University of Campinas, Brazil).
Data Challenge “L3DAS21: Machine Learning for 3D Audio Signal Processing” at the 31st IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2021), Gold Coast, Australia, Oct. 25–28, 2021. Co-organizer: Eric Guizzo (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy).
Special Session Organization
Special session on “Leveraging Foundation Models for Efficiently Developing Generative Models” at the INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2025), Rome, Italy, June 30 - July 5, 2025. Co-organizers: Takashi Shibuya and Yuki Mitsufuji (Sony AI / Sony Group Corporation).
Special session on “L3DAS24: Computational Processing for 3D Audio Sources” at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2024), Yokohama, Japan, Jun. 30 - Jul. 5, 2024. Co-organizers: Michele Scarpiniti, Riccardo Fosco Gramaccioni, Christian Marinoni (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy).
Special session on “Audio and Speech Enhancement: Emerging Trends in Deep Learning” at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2022), Padua, Italy, Jul. 18–23, 2022. Co-organizers: Michele Scarpiniti (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Jen-Tzung Chen (National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan), Konstantinos Drossos (Tampere University, Finland).
Special session on “Learning Methods in Complex and Hypercomplex Domains” at the 44th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2019), Brighton, UK, May 12–17, 2019. Co-organizers: Clive Cheong Took (Royal Holloway University of London, UK).
Special session on “Novel Advances on Linear-in-the-Parameters Nonlinear Filters and Their Applications” at the 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2017), Kos, Greece, Aug 28 – Sep. 2, 2017. Co-organizers: Alberto Carini (Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy), Luis A. Azpicueta-Ruiz (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain).
Special session on “Computational Methods for Audio Analysis” at the IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2016), Vietri Sul Mare, Italy, Sep. 13–16, 2016. Co-organizers: Michele Scarpiniti (Sapienza University of Rome, Italy), Tuomas Virtanen (Tampere University, Finland), Mark Plumbley (University of Surray, UK), Stefano Squartini (Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy), Paris Smaragdis (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA).
Special session on “Advances on Linear-in-the-Parameters Nonlinear Filters and Their Application to Audio and Speech Processing” at the 24th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2016), Budapest, Hungary, Aug 29 – Sep. 2, 2016. Co-organizers: Alberto Carini (Università degli Studi di Urbino Carlo Bo, Italy), Luis A. Azpicueta-Ruiz (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain).
Session Chair
Lecture Sessions "Deep Generative Models II", "Self-Supervised and Semi-Supervised Learning II" and Poster Session "Multimodal medical image fusion and analysis" at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2024), Seoul, Korea, April 14-19, 2024.
Lecture Session “L3DAS23: Learning 3D Audio Sources for Audio-Visual Extended Reality” and Poster Session “Neural Sound Synthesis and Representation” at the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023), Rhodes Island, Greece, June 4–9, 2023.
Lecture Session "Federated Learning and Cooperative Neural Networks" at the IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2022), Padua, Italy, July 18-23, 2022.
Lecture Sessions “L3DAS22 Machine Learning for 3D Audio Signal Processing” and “Deep Generative Model” at the 47th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2022), Singapore, May 22–27, 2022.
Lecture Session “L3DAS21 Machine Learning for 3D Audio Signal Processing” at the 31st IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2021), Gold Coast, Australia, Oct. 25–18, 2021.
Lecture Session “Sparsity Aware Processing and Learning” at the 45th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2020), Barcelona, Spain, May 4–8, 2020.
Poster Session “Learning Methods in Complex and Hypercomplex Domains” and Lecture Session “Deep Learning Applications II” at the 44th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2019), Brighton, UK, May 12–17, 2019.
Poster Session “Remote Sensing” at the 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2018), Rome, Italy, Sep. 3–9, 2018.
Lecture Session “Computational Methods for Audio Analysis” at the IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2016), Vietri Sul Mare, Italy, Sep. 13–16, 2016.
Lecture Session “Advances on Linear-in-the-Parameters Nonlinear Filters and Their Application to Audio and Speech Processing” at the 24th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2016), Budapest, Hungary, Aug 29 – Sep. 2, 2016.
Lecture Session “Machine Learning 3” at the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2015), Killarney, Ireland, July 12–16, 2015.
Lecture Session “Audio, Speech and Language Processing II” at the 36th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP 2013), Rome, Italy, Jul. 2–4, 2013.
Lecture Session “Audio Signal Processing – Part 1” at the 134th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society (AES134), Rome, Italy, May 4–7, 2013.
Technical Program Committee Member
Member of the Review Committee of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2025), London, UK, May 25-28, 2025.
Track Chair of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2025), Hyderabad, India, April, 6–11, 2025.
Member of the Review Committee of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2024), Singapore, May 19-22, 2024.
Area Chair and Member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2024), Seoul, Korea, April 14-19, 2024.
Area Chair and Member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2023), Rhode Island, Greece, June, 4–9, 2023.
Track Co-Chair of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2023), Monterrey, CA, USA, May 21–25, 2023.
Member of the Review Committee of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2022), Austin, TX, USA, May 28 – Jun. 1, 2022.
Area Chair and Member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2022), Singapore, May, 22–27, 2022.
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA 2021), New Paltz, NY, USA, Oct. 17–20, 2021.
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE Workshop on Multimedia Signal Processing (MMSP 2021), Tampere, Finland, Oct. 06–08, 2021.
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2021), Shenzhen, China, Jul. 18–22, 2021.
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE Statistical Signal Processing Workshop (SSP 2021), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Jul. 11–14, 2021.
Area Chair and Member of the Technical Program Committee of the 46th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2021), Toronto, Ontario, Jun. 6–11, 2021.
Member of the Review Committee of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2021), Daegu, Korea, May 23–26, 2021.
Member of the Review Committee of the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2020), Sevilla, Spain, Oct. 12–14, 2020.
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2020), Glasgow, UK, Jul. 19–24, 2020.
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2018), Aalborg, Denmark, Sep. 17–20, 2018.
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the 26th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2018), Rome, Italy, Sep. 3–9, 2018.
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2017), Tokyo, Japan, Sep. 25–28, 2017.
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the 25th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2017), Kos Island, Greece, Aug. 28 – Sep. 2, 2017.
Member of the Program Committee of the 2nd INNS BigData Conference (BigData 2016), Thessaloniki, Greece, Oct. 23–25, 2016.
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2016), Vietri Sul Mare, Italy, Sep. 13–16, 2016.
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the 24th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2016), Budapest, Hungary, Aug 29 – Sep. 2, 2016.
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the 23rd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2015), Nice, France, Aug. 31 – Sep. 4, 2015.
Member of the Technical Program Committee of the 22nd European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2014), Lisbon, Portugal, Sep. 1–5, 2014.
Member of the Program Committee of the 24th Italian Workshop on Neural Networks (WIRN 2014), Vietri Sul Mare, Italy, May 15–16, 2014.
Member of the Program Committee of the 22nd Italian Workshop on Neural Networks (WIRN 2012), Vietri Sul Mare, Italy, May 17–19, 2012.
Tutorials
Hypercomplex Neural Networks for Multidimensional Data, Danilo Comminiello, Clive Cheong Took, Danilo Mandic, International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2024), Pacifico Yokohama Conference Center, Yokohama, Japan, June 30, 2024.
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Shape the Noise: A Tutorial on Generative AI and its Transformative Role in ICT, 2023 Annual Meeting of the GTTI (Gruppo Telecomunicazioni e Tecnologie dell'Informazione), Aula dei Congressi, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, September 13, 2023.
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Intelligent Acoustic Interfaces for High-Definition 3D Audio, 144th Convention of the Audio Engineering Society (AES144), Milan, Italy, May 26, 2018.
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Academic Seminars and Invited Talks
Generative AI for Audio Semantic Communication – BrainLink X-Lab - 6G Semantic Communications, Alpensia Resort Pyeongchang, Korea, November 9, 2023.
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Demystifying the Hypercomplex: Inductive Bias in Hypercomplex Deep Learning – KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, November 6, 2023.
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Deep Generative Latent Models for Multidimensional Signals in the Quaternion Domain: An Information-Theoretic Perspective – Santa Clara University, CA, May 23, 2023.
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Fueling the Sound of AI: How Data Empowers Audio AI – The Sound of AI, Virtual, May 9, 2023.
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L3DAS: Learning 3D Audio Sources - Audio Days, Logitech, Virtual / Lausanne, Switzerland, June 20, 2022.
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The Simplicity of the Hypercomplex: Deep Learning for Immersive Audio - Seminar Series on Artificial Intelligence for Sound Analysis and Synthesis, Italian Section of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), Virtual / Rome, Italy, December 15, 2020.
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Learning 3D Audio Sources in the Quaternion Domain - AES Virtual Symposium: Applications of Machine Learning in Audio, Virtual, September 29, 2020.
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Accelerating Magnetic Resonance Imaging with Deep Learning - Workshop on Computational Intelligence for Bioinformatics and Clinical Diagnostics, Sapienza Information-Based Technology InnovaTion Center for Health (STITCH), Rome, Italy, February 5, 2020.
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Acoustic Noise Reduction in Reverberant Environments - European Gravitational Observatory (EGO-VIRGO), Cascina (PI), Italy, October 12, 2018.
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Nonlinear Adaptive Filtering Based on a Class of Linear-in-the-Parameters Nonlinear Models - Riunione Annuale dei Ricercatori di Elettrotecnica (ET 2015), Genova, Italy, June 19, 2015.
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Nonlinear Adaptive Filtering Based on a Class of Linear-in-the-Parameters Nonlinear Models - Seminar Series of Enabling Advances in Technology - EAT @ DIET, Rome, Italy, May 7, 2015.
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Outstanding Associate Editor — for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems, September 2023.
Best Manuscript Award at ISCAS 2022 — for the paper "Efficient Sound Event Localization and Detection in the Quaternion Domain" authored by C. Brignone, G. Mancini, E. Grassucci, A. Uncini, and D. Comminiello, presented at the 55th IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2022), Austin, TX, May 2022.
TensorFlow Faculty Award 2021 — for the course of Generative Deep Learning, in support of the development of new courses on emerging machine learning issues that are also able to promote inclusion initiatives for machine learning education.
Outstanding ICASSP Reviewer Award 2019 — for maintaining the prestige of the 44th International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2019), Brighton, UK, May 2019.
PhD Thesis Award 2017: I Concorso Regionale per Tesi di Laurea e di Dottorato Riservato ai Laureati Lucani 2017 — for the best Ph.D. thesis earned in the years 2007-2012 in Basilicata region.
Franco Ferrero Award 2013 — for the best paper published in the proceedings of AISV 2012.
Franco Ferrero Award 2012 — for the best paper published in the proceedings of AISV 2011.
2023. Principal Investigator for “Progetti di Ricerca 2023 – Progetti Medi – Sapienza Università di Roma” with the project “SAID: Solving Audio Inverse problems with Diffusion models”. Grant value: 10.680€.
2023. Principal Investigator for the national program “Progetti di Ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale - PRIN 2022” of the Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca” with the project “EXEGETE: Explainable Generative Deep Learning Methods for Medical Image and Signal Processing”. Grant value: 246.634€ (of which 111.303€ for the local unit).
2022. Principal Investigator for the regional program “Intervento per il Rafforzamento della Ricerca e Innovazione nel Lazio” with the project “Hypercomplex Generative Deep Learning for Energy-Efficient AI Applications”. Grant value: 72.948,66€.
2021. Principal Investigator for “NVIDIA Applied Research Accelerator Program” with the project “Quaternion Deep Learning for 3D Audio Sources”. Grant: GPU NVIDIA Quadro RTX 8000 (value 7000$).
2019. Principal Investigator for “Progetti di Ricerca Grandi 2019 – Progetti Grandi – Sapienza Università di Roma” with the project “HYD3A: Hypercomplex Deep Learning for 3D Audio Analysis”. Grant value: 62.987€.
2017. Principal Investigator for “Fondo per le Attività Base di Ricerca (FFABR) – ANVUR”. Grant value: 3.000€.
2016. Principal Investigator for “Ricerca Scientifica Anno 2016: Progetti Avvio alla Ricerca – Sapienza Università di Roma” with the project “Interfacce Acustiche Intelligenti per l’Audio Spaziale Immersivo ad Alta Definizione”. Grant value: 2.000€.
2015. Principal Investigator for “Ricerca Scientifica Anno 2015: Progetti Avvio alla Ricerca – Sapienza Università di Roma” with the project “Interfacce Acustiche Intelligenti per Dispositivi Mobili in Comunicazioni Immersive”. Grant value: 2.000€.
2023 – Today: Coordinator of the Monitoring Committee of the Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics, and Statistics (I3S), Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
2021 – 2023: Member of the Monitoring Committee of the Faculty of Information Engineering, Informatics, and Statistics (I3S), Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
2018 – Today: Member of the Didactic Area Council of Telecommunications Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
2017 – Today: Member of the Scientific Board of the Doctoral Program in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
2017 – Today: Member of the Didactic Area Council of Electronics Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
2016 – Today: Member of the Faculty Board of the Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications (DIET), Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.
2010 – Today: Member of the Intelligent Signal Processing and MultiMedia (ISPAMM) Laboratory, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.