Higher education and academic positions
Alessandro Lanza (AL) received the “European Doctorate in Information Technology (EDITH)” in 2007 from the Advanced Research Center on Electronic Systems for Information and Communication Technologies (ARCES), University of Bologna (UniBo), then he has been postdoctoral research fellow at ARCES, at the Department of Electronics, Informatics and Systems (DEIS) of the Faculty of Engineering, UniBo, at the Interdepartmental Research Centre for Applied Mathematics (CIRAM), UniBo, and at the Department of Mathematics, UniBo.
From 2014 to 2019 he was Junior Assistant Professor (RTD-a) at the Department of Mathematics, UniBo, and from 2019 to 2022 Senior Assistant Professor (RTD-b) at the same Department.
In August 2018 he received the (Italian) National Scientific Qualification as Associate Professor of Numerical Analysis (S.C. 01/A5, S.S.D. MATH-05/A) and since June 2022 he is Associate Professor of Numerical Analysis at the Department of Mathematics, UniBo.
In June 2023 he received the (Italian) National Scientific Qualification as Full Professor of Numerical Analysis (S.C. 01/A5, S.S.D. MATH-05/A)
Teaching activity
AL taught numerous courses in the field of Numerical Analysis at UniBo, namely within the Master Degree Course in Mathematics, International Master Degree Course in Civil Engineering, International Master Degree Course in Telecommunications Engineering, Master Degree Course in Civil Engineering, Bachelor Degree Course in Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor Degree Course in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering.
He taught several courses in the PhD in Mathematics, Unibo, and in national and international PhD Summer and Winter Schools.
He has been supervisor and co-supervisor of more than 25 bachelor and master theses in Mathematics and Computer Science, tutor of a 1-year research fellowship at the Department of Mathematics, UniBo, and co-supervisor of 3 PhD students in Mathematics, UniBo.
Institutional activity
AL is currently a member of the Board, of the Third Mission Committee and of the Internship Committee of the Department of Mathematics, UniBo, and a member of the Board and Academic Board of the PhD Program in "Engineering and Information Technology for Structural and Environmental Monitoring and Risk Management - EIT4SEMM", UniBo.
Research activity
The research activity of AL is mainly focused on the analysis and implementation of numerical methods for the solution of large-scale discrete ill-posed inverse problems, with particular interest in variational models/methods of non-linear, non-differentiable and both convex and non-convex type applied to inverse imaging problems.
He is also interested in Machine Learning approaches (in particular, supervised and unsupervised classification) applied to the robust and efficient automatic reading of 1D and 2D barcodes. This research activity, carried out in collaboration with the company Datalogic SpA, led to the invention of an international patent.
He has authored 34 articles in international journals and book chapters - most in the fields of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing and some in the field of Computer Vision - and more than 30 peer-reviewed international conference papers. He has participated as a speaker in more than 30 international conferences and has been organizer of conferences, workshops, international PhD schools and numerous mini-symposia at national and international conferences.
He has participated to national PRIN and INDAM-GNCS research projects as well as to a European research project.
He is referee for several international journals in the field of Numerical Analysis, Scientific Computing, Image Processing and Computer Vision.
Other activity
AL has been (and is) involved, also as scientific coordinator, in numerous scientific collaborations with industrial companies, such as Datalogic SpA, Imal srl, Skanray Europe srl. The collaborations led to the realization of several master thesis and a 1-year research fellowship at the Department of Mathematics, UniBo.
He was a founding member of the University spin-off “Alma Vision srl”, incubated at the Research Center ARCES, UniBo
AL is co-inventor of the international patent “
Systems, methods and articles for reading highly blurred machine-readable symbols”, the invention of which originated from the scientific collaboration with the company Datalogic SpA.
