Claudio Cusano received the Master and PhD degrees in Computer Science from the University of Milano Bicocca in 2002 and 2006, respectively. He has been a researcher with grant at the ITC institute of the Italian National Research Council and then at the Imaging and Vision Laboratory of the University of Milano-Bicocca. Currently, he is associate professor at the Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering of the University of Pavia. The main topics of his research concern machine learning applications in computer vision, image processing and computational photography.