Associate Professor

Gennaro Vessio

University of Bari Aldo Moro · Department of Computer Science

Deep Learning · Computer Vision · Multimodal AI

About me

A little less formal

👋 Welcome! I am a computer scientist and academic at the University of Bari Aldo Moro, where I combine research and teaching with the occasional attempt to make artificial intelligence a little more understandable beyond the university walls.

If you happen to visit the department, you'll usually find me either in my sixth-floor office or, most often, in the CILAB lab on the fourth floor, where the real magic happens. Every now and then, I also make a strategic stop in Professor Giovanna Castellano's office, mainly to “borrow” a few taralli and share them with whoever happens to be around!

Research

What I do

I work mainly on deep learning, computer vision and multimodal AI, with increasing attention to efficient and trustworthy AI for real-world systems.

My research spans e-health, autonomous drones and digital humanities, among other domains.

Latest news

Recent

Our paper “Matching-Based Few-Shot Semantic Segmentation Models Are Interpretable by Design” was accepted at the NeurIPS 2026 Main Track.

I was appointed Associate Professor at the University of Bari Aldo Moro.

I received an IAPR Distinction Award, together with TC19 Vice Chair Guillaume Caron, in recognition of our strategic leadership of IAPR TC19. The award was presented at ICPR 2026 in Lyon.

I was appointed Area Chair for NeurIPS 2026.

Students

Theses & supervision

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