News and Open Positions

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Open Position: The call for applications to the PhD Program at Sapienza University of Rome is open!
Within the PhD Program in Information and Communication Technology, I am looking for a talented and highly motivated student to work on generative models for one of the following domains: sciences (biology, physics, climate, materials discovery), healthcare, audio.
Further details can be found on the call for applications (ENG and ITA) and on the ICT PhD website.
Do not hesitate to contact me for further information.
Application deadline: June 20, 2024.

Appointment: Danilo Comminiello has been elected as Vice Chair of the IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. 

Appointment: Danilo Comminiello has been appointed Area Editor for Columns and Forum of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. 

Open Position: We are looking for a 12-month research fellow on explainable generative deep learning for a challenging research experience at ISPAMM Lab, Sapienza University of Rome.
Further details can be found on the call for applications and on the application webpage. Do not hesitate to contact me for further information.
Application deadline: January 15, 2024.

Special Event: The Computational Audio Processing (CAP) Task Force of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and the L3DAS Team are glad to propose the Special Session "L3DAS24: Computational Processing for 3D Audio Sources" at the 2024 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2024), which will be held in Yokohama, Japan, June 30 - July 5, 2024. The deadline for paper submission is January 15, 2024.
Further information can be found in the following Call for Papers and on the L3DAS24 webpage.

Special Event: I am really thrilled and honored to announce that the 2025 INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) will be held in Rome, Italy, June 30 - July 5, 2025. On behalf of the whole Organizing Committee, I would like to warmly invite you to participate in the IJCNN 2025!

Invited Talk: Honored to give a talk on "Generative AI for Audio Semantic Communication" at BrainLink X-Lab - 6G Semantic Communications, Alpensia Resort Pyeongchang, Korea, November 9, 2023.

Invited Talk: Honored to give a seminar on "Demystifying the Hypercomplex: Inductive Bias in Hypercomplex Deep Learning" at KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, November 6, 2023. Thanks to Prof. Chang D. Yoo for the invitation.

Special Event: I am really thrilled and honored to announce that the 33rd IEEE International Workshop on Machine Learning for Signal Processing (MLSP 2023) will be held in Rome, Italy, 17-20 September 2023. On behalf of the whole Organizing Committee, I would like to warmly invite you to participate in the IEEE MLSP 2023!
Please visit the website for all the information: https://2023.ieeemlsp.org.

Tutorial: Honored to give a tutorial on Generative AI at the Annual Meeting of the GTTI (Gruppo Telecomunicazioni e Tecnologie dell'Informazione): "Shape the Noise: A Tutorial on Generative AI and its Transformative Role in ICT" at Aula dei Congressi, Sapienza Università di Roma, September 13, 2023.

Invited Talk: Honored to give a seminar on "Deep Generative Latent Models for Multidimensional Signals in the Quaternion Domain: An Information-Theoretic Perspective" at Santa Clara University, CA, USA, May 23, 2023. Thanks to Prof. Tokunbo Ogunfunmi for the invitation.

Seminar: I am glad to give a seminar for The Sound of AI on the importance of data in audio AI: "Fueling The Sound of AI: How Data Empowers Audio AI", May 9, 2023. Thanks to Valerio Verardi for the invitation.

Open Position: We are looking for a Fixed-Term Assistant Professor (3 years - Ricercatore a Tempo Determinato Tipo A) to work on Deep Learning for Satellite and Ground-Based Remote Sensing at DIET Dept., Sapienza University of Rome. Topics may include deep generative models, self-supervised learning, multimodal neural networks, and graph neural networks, among others.
Further detail can be found on the call for application and on the application webpage. Do not hesitate to contact me for further information.
Application deadline: January 7, 2023.

Special Event: The L3DAS Team and I are glad to announce the 3rd edition of the L3DAS CHALLENGE on Learning 3D Audio Sources for Audio-Visual Extended Reality at IEEE ICASSP 2023 🤯🤩🎧

Further details on tasks, datasets, and instructions to participate can be found on the L3DAS website: www.l3das.com/icassp2023.

Open Position: I am looking for a very motivated and talented candidate for an industrial PhD scholarship within the PhD Program in Information and Communication Engineering at Sapienza University of Rome, co-funded by Leonardo Labs AI, on the theme "Empowering digital transformation with emerging AI paradigms for unlabelled, noisy and scarce data".
Here is the call for application. Do not hesitate to contact me for further information.
Application deadline: October 9, 2022.

Appointment: Danilo Comminiello is an Associate Editor for  IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS) of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society. 

Open Position: We are looking for a 12-month research fellow on generative deep learning, for audio and images, for a challenging research experience at ISPAMM Lab, Sapienza University of Rome. Here is the call for application.
Application deadline: 1st September 2022.

Award: Our paper "Efficient Sound Event Localization and Detection in the Quaternion Domain", authored by Christian Brignone, Gioia Mancini, Eleonora Grassucci, Aurelio Uncini and Danilo Comminiello, has received the Best Manuscript Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2022).

Special Event: I am co-organizing with Michele Scarpiniti, Jen-Tzung Chien and Konstantinos Drosos, a special session on "Audio and Speech Enhancement: Emerging Trends in Deep Learning" at the 2022 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2022), which will be held in Padua, Italy, on 18 - 23 July 2022. The strict deadline for paper submission is January 31, 2022.
Further information can be found in the following Call for Papers.

Open Position: We are looking for a 12-month research fellow on deep learning for compressed sensing, for audio, images and/or biomedical applications, at our ISPAMM Lab, Sapienza University of Rome. Here are the Call for Research Fellowship and the application website.
Application deadline: January 10, 2022.

Special Event: The L3DAS Team and I are glad to announce the 2nd edition of the L3DAS CHALLENGE on Machine Learning for 3D Audio Signal Processing at IEEE ICASSP 2022 🤯🤩🎧

Further details on tasks, datasets, instructions to participate, registration and awards can be found on the L3DAS website: www.l3das.com/icassp2022.

Award: The course of Generative Deep Learning, offered within the PhD Course in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), has been awarded the TensorFlow Faculty Award 2021.

Open Position: We are looking for a 12-month research fellow on generative deep learning for compressed sensing, for audio, images and biomedical applications, for a challenging research experience at ISPAMM Lab, Sapienza University of Rome. Here are the Call for Research Fellowship and the application website.
Application deadline: 1st April 2021.

Notice of Seminars: ISPAMM Lab, in collaboration with the Italian Section of the Audio Engineering Society (AES), is glad to announce the first series of 4 virtual seminars on Artificial Intelligence for Sound Synthesis and Analysis. Further details can be found in the event flyer.

Open Position: We are looking for a 12-month research fellow on deep learning for audio analysis (including audio, speech and acoustic signals) for a challenging research experience at ISPAMM Lab, Sapienza University of Rome. Here is the Call for Research Fellowship.

Application deadline: 3rd September 2020. 

Seminar: I am glad to give a seminar for the Audio Days at Logitech on the L3DAS Project: "L3DAS: Learning 3D Audio Sources", Virtual / Lausanne, Switzerland, June 20, 2020. Thanks to Milos Cernak for the invitation.

Appointment: Danilo Comminiello has been elected as a Member of the IEEE Nonlinear Circuits and Systems Technical Committee (NCAS TC) of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society. 

Appointment: Danilo Comminiello has been elected as a Member of the IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee (MLSP TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society. 

Appointment: Danilo Comminiello has been elected as a Member of the Boards of Directors of the Italian Section of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) for the period 2018-2020.

Special Event: The Special Session "LEARNING METHODS IN COMPLEX AND HYPERCOMPLEX DOMAINS" has been accepted at the 44th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2019) in Brighton, UK, May 12-17, 2019.


Papers must be submitted by October 29, 2018.

Download the Call for Papers.


Further information can be found on the special session webpage or on the conference website.

Book publication:


ADAPTIVE LEARNING METHODS FOR NONLINEAR SYSTEM MODELING

Danilo Comminiello and Jose C. Principe (Eds.)

388 p., ISBN: 978-0-12-812976-0

Elsevier, June 2018.

 

Elsevier's book website


Download the book flyer including the table of contents and a discount code.

Appointment: Danilo Comminiello has been elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior Member.