CV & Bio

• 2007 - 2013 University of Palermo, Italy
  Bachelor in Mathematics for Scientific Communication

• 2013 - 2015 University of Palermo, Italy
  Master in Mathematics

  • 2013 - 2014 University of Szczecin, Poland
    Erasmus student at the Institute of Mathematics

  • 2014 Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, Spain
    Visiting student at the Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías da Información

• 2015 - 2019 Universities of Florence and Siena, Italy
  PhD student, sup. Prof. Marco Gori

  • 2018 Caltech – California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA
    Visiting student, sup. Prof. Pietro Perona

• 2019 University of Siena, Italy
  Postdoc researcher at the Sailab (Dept. Computer Science)

• 2019 -2020 University of Siena, Italy
  Postdoc researcher at the Neurosense Lab (Dept. Medicine, Surgery and Neuroscience)

• 2020 – Present Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
  Postdoc researcher and Head of the Applied Machine Learning group (~15 PhDs) (Dept. Artificial Intelligence for Biomedical Engineering)

Dario Zanca obtained a Bachelor's and Master's degree in Mathematics from the University of Palermo, Italy. He later obtained his PhD from the Universities of Florence and Siena, Italy, where he focused on machine learning and visual attention modeling. He was a visiting researcher at various institutions including Caltech in California, USA, and Universidad de Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Currently, he is a Postdoc researcher and Head of the Applied Machine Learning group at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany. His research interests broadly fall into the areas of deep learning and computational cognitive sciences, with a focus on human-inspired computer vision and robustness.