News and Open Positions

🎤 Invited Talk · Carnegie Mellon University
Delivered an invited talk "Geometric Multimodal Alignment for Generative Models - From Pairwise Similarity to Geometric Consistency" at the workshop on Frontiers of Flows for Generative AI at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 26-27 March 2026.
March 2026

📄 Publications · ICASSP and ICLR 2026
Three papers from ISPAMM Lab accepted at ICASSP 2026 and ICLR 2026: 

• Training-Free Multimodal Guidance for Video to Audio Generation, ICASSP 2026 [arXiv]

• Closing the Modality Gap Aligns Group-Wise Semantics, ICLR 2026 [arXiv]

• Latent Wavelet Diffusion For Ultra-High-Resolution Image Synthesis, ICLR 2026 [arXiv]

January 2026

🏛️ Appointment · IEEE CIM
Appointed Associate Editor for IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine.
January 2026

🏛️ Appointment · Elsevier NEUNET
Appointed Action Editor for Elsevier Neural Networks.
January 2026

🏛️ Appointment · INNS
Elected Member of the Board of Governors of the International Neural Network Society (INNS).
December 2025

🏆 Award · IEEE SPM
Received the Outstanding Editorial Board Member Award for dedicated service to the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine.
August 2025

🗓️ Workshop Organization · ICML 2025
Workshop on Machine Learning for Wireless Communication and Networks at the 42nd International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML 2025), Vancouver, Canada, 18 July 2025. 

July 2025

🗓️ Special Session Organization · IJCNN 2025  

Special Session on "Leveraging Foundation Models for Efficiently Developing Generative Models" organized at the 2025 INNS International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN 2025), Rome, Italy, 30 June - 5 July 2025.

June 2025

🗓️ Conference Organization · SSCI 2025
Served as Syposium General Chair for the IEEE Symposium on CI in Image, Signal Processing and Synthetic Media (IEEE CISM) of the IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence (SSCI 2025), Trondheim, Norway, 17-20 March 2025.

March 2025

🏛️ Appointment · IEEE SPS
Appointed Chair of the IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS).
January 2025

🏛️ Appointment · IEEE CIS
Appointed Chair of the Task Force on Computational Audio Processing of the IEEE Intelligent System Applications Technical Committee (IEEE Computational Intelligence Society - CIS).
February 2024

🏛️ Appointment · IEEE SPS
Elected Vice Chair of the IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS).
December 2023

🏛️ Appointment · IEEE SPM
Appointed Area Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine Columns and Forum of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.
December 2023

🗓️ Special Session Organization · WCCI 2024  

Special Session on "L3DAS24: Computational Processing for 3D Audio Sources" organized at the 2024 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2024), Yokohama, Japan, 30 June - 5 July 2024, in collaboration with the Computational Audio Processing (CAP) Task Force of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society and L3DAS. Further information on the Call for Papers and on the L3DAS24 webpage.

December 2023

🎤Invited Talk · BrainLink X-Lab 2023
Delivered an invited talk on "Generative AI for Audio Semantic Communication" at BrainLink X-Lab - 6G Semantic Communications, Alpensia Resort Pyeongchang, Korea, 9 November 2023.
November 2023

🎤 Invited Talk · KAIST
Delivered an invited seminar on "Demystifying the Hypercomplex: Inductive Bias in Hypercomplex Deep Learning" at KAIST, Daejeon, Korea, 6 November 2023.
November 2023

🏆 Award · IEEE TNNLS
Received the Outstanding Associate Editor Award for dedicated service to the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems.
September 2023

🎤Tutorial · GTTI
Delivered a tutorial at the Annual Meeting of the GTTI (Gruppo Telecomunicazioni e Tecnologie dell'Informazione) on "Shape the Noise: A Tutorial on Generative AI and its Transformative Role in ICT", Rome, 13 September 2023.
September 2023

💰 Research Project · PRIN 2022
Awarded funding as Principal Investigator for the national program "Progetti di Ricerca di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale - PRIN 2022" with the project "EXEGETE: Explainable Generative Deep Learning Methods for Medical Image and Signal Processing".
September 2023

🎤 Invited Talk · Santa Clara University
Delivered an invited 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.
May 2023

🎤 Invited Talk · The Sound of AI
Delivered an invited seminar for The Sound of AI on "Fueling The Sound of AI: How Data Empowers Audio AI", May 9, 2023.
May 2023

🗓️ Challenge Organization · ICASSP 2023

3rd edition of the L3DAS CHALLENGE on "Learning 3D Audio Sources for Audio-Visual Extended Reality" organized at IEEE ICASSP 2023. Further details on the L3DAS website: www.l3das.com/icassp2023.

September 2022

📢 Open Position · Sapienza University of Rome / Leonardo Labs AI  

Industrial PhD scholarship on Empowering digital transformation with emerging AI paradigms for unlabelled, noisy and scarce data, co-funded by Leonardo Labs AI. Here is the call for application. Application deadline: October 9, 2022.

September 2022

🏛️ Appointment · IEEE TNNLS
Appointed Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (TNNLS) of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society.
September 2022

📢 Open Position · ISPAMM Lab  

12-month Research Fellow on generative deep learning at ISPAMM Lab, Sapienza University of Rome. Here is the call for application. Application deadline: 1st September 2022.

August 2022

🏆 Award · ISCAS 2022
The paper "Efficient Sound Event Localization and Detection in the Quaternion Domain" received the Best Manuscript Award at the IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS 2022).
May 2022

🗓️ Special Session Organization · WCCI 2022  

Special session on "Audio and Speech Enhancement: Emerging Trends in Deep Learning" organized at the 2022 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence (WCCI 2022), Padua, Italy, 18-23 July 2022. Further information on the Call for Papers.

November 2021

📢 Open Position · ISPAMM Lab 

12-month Research Fellow on deep learning for compressed sensing at ISPAMM Lab, Sapienza University of Rome. Here the Call for Research Fellowship and the application website. Application deadline: January 10, 2022.

December 2022

🗓️ Challenge Organization · ICASSP 2022 

2nd edition of the L3DAS CHALLENGE on "Machine Learning for 3D Audio Signal Processing" organized at IEEE ICASSP 2022. Further details on the L3DAS website: www.l3das.com/icassp2022.

September 2021

🏆Award · Google
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.
May 2021

💰 Research Project · NVIDIA
Selected as Principal Investigator for the NVIDIA Applied Research Accelerator Program with the project Quaternion Deep Learning for 3D Audio Sources.
May 2021

📢 Open Position · ISPAMM Lab 

12-month Research Fellow on generative deep learning for compressed sensing at ISPAMM Lab, Sapienza University of Rome. Here the Call for Research Fellowship and the application website. Application deadline: 1st April 2021.

March 2021

🎓 Seminar Series · ISPAMM Lab 

Launched the seminar series on Artificial Intelligence for Sound Synthesis and Analysis organized by the ISPAMM Lab, in collaboration with the Italian Section of the Audio Engineering Society (AES). Further details in the event flyer.

October 2020

📢 Open Position · ISPAMM Lab 

12-month Research Fellow on deep learning for audio analysis at ISPAMM Lab, Sapienza University of Rome. Here is the Call for Research Fellowship. Application deadline: 3rd September 2020. 

August 2020

🎤Invited Talk · Logitech
Invited to deliver a seminar at the the Audio Days at Logitech on the L3DAS Project: "L3DAS: Learning 3D Audio Sources", Virtual / Lausanne, Switzerland, June 20, 2020.
June 2020

🏛️Appointment · IEEE CAS
Elected as a Member of the IEEE Nonlinear Circuits and Systems Technical Committee (NCAS TC) of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society (CAS).
May 2019

🏛️ Appointment · IEEE SPS
Elected as a Member of the IEEE Machine Learning for Signal Processing Technical Committee (MLSP TC) of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (SPS).
November 2018

🏛️ Appointment · AES
Elected as a Member of the Boards of Directors of the Italian Section of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) for the period 2018-2020.
September 2018

🗓️ Special Session Organization · ICASSP 2019

Special Session "Learning Methods in Complex and Hypercomplex Domains" organized at the 44th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP 2019) in Brighton, UK, May 12-17, 2019. Further information on the special session webpage, the Call for Papers, and the conference website.

September 2018

🏛️ Appointment · IEEE
Elevated to the grade of IEEE Senior Member.
March 2018