Giuseppe Pirlo received the degree (cum laude) in computer science from the Department of Computer Science, University of Bari, Italy, in 1986. Since 1986, he has been carrying out research in the field of computer science and neuroscience, signal processing, handwriting processing, automatic signature verification, biometrics, pattern recognition, and statistical data processing. Since 1991, he has been an Assistant Professor with the Department of Computer Science, University of Bari, where he is currently a Full Professor. He developed several scientific projects and authored more than 250 articles on international journals, scientific books, and proceedings. He is a member of the Governing Board of Consorzio Interuniversitario Nazionale per l’Informatica (CINI), the Governing Board of the Societa Italiana di e-Learning, the e-learning Committee of the University of Bari, the Gruppo Italiano Ricercatori in Pattern Recognition, the International Association of Pattern Recognition, the Stati Generali dell’Innovazione, and the Gruppo Ingegneria Informatica. He was the General Chair of the International Workshop on Emerging Aspects in Handwriting Signature Processing, Naples, in 2013, and the International Workshop on Image-Based Smart City Applications, Genoa, in 2015; and the General Co-Chair of the International Conference on Frontiers in Handwriting Recognition, Bari, in 2012. He was an Editor of the Special Issue Handwriting Recognition and Other PR Applications of the Pattern Recognition journal in 2014 and the Special Issue Handwriting Biometrics of the IET Biometrics journal in 2014. He was a Guest Editor of the Special Issue of Journal of e-Learning and Knowledge Society: Steps Toward the Digital Agenda: Open Data to Open Knowledge (Je-LKS) in 2014. He is also an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems. He also serves as a Reviewer for many international journals, including the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, the IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, the IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, the IEEE Transactions on Image Processing, the IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security, the Pattern Recognition, the International Journal on Document Analysis and Recognition, and the Information Processing Letters. He is also a Guest Co-Editor of the Special Issue of the IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems on Drawing and Handwriting Processing for User-Centered Systems. He is also an editor of several books. He was a Reviewer in the scientific committee and program committee of many international conferences in the field of computer science, pattern recognition, and signal processing, such as ICPR, ICDAR, ICFHR, IWFHR, ICIAP, VECIMS, and CISMA.

Currently active:

• Architettura degli elaboratori e sistemi operativi (Computer architecture and operating systems) at the BSc in Informatica (Computer Science)
• Urban Security at the MSc in Computer Science
• Digital innovation for sustainability at the MSc in Innovazione, governance e sostenibilità (Innovation, governanace and sustainability)