Nicola Torpei

Researcher and Consultant at Media Integration and Communication Center, a National Center of Excellence at the University of Florence, regarding fields of tangible and natural interaction, computer vision systems applied to large interactive surfaces. Further, at MICC he is also involved in management concerning natural interaction’s technology transfer projects in collaboration with local government and private companies.
Member of Visual Information and Media Lab headed by Prof. Alberto Del Bimbo, member of TANGerINE research project (TANGible Interactive Natural Environment – www.tangerineproject.org) in collaboration with Micrel Lab DEIS, University of Bologna.
He graduated in Computer Science at University of Florence and since 2006 is an invited professor in Sound Design at Master in Multimedia Content Design, University of Florence. He’s also:
* Invited professor for the module “Multimedia Design”, Faculty of Architecture, University of Florence
* Lecturer for the module “Multimedia project production”, Faculty of Engineering, University of Florence
* Lecturer for the module “Multimedia project production”, Faculty of Architecture, University of Florence
He has been a reviewer for many international conference and journal like JVLC (Journal of Visual Languages and Computing) and also:
* Member of Technical Program Committee for IEEE Human System Interaction 2010.
* Art Exhibit Technology Chair of ACM Multimedia 2010.