Prof. Bruno Carpentieri  
University of Salerno, Italy

Biography: Bruno Carpentieri graduated in Computer Science at the University of Salerno, and then obtained the Master of Arts Degree and the Philosopy Doctorate Degree in Computer Science at the Brandeis University (Waltham, MA, USA).

Since 1991, he was first Researcher, then Associate Professor and finally Full Professor of Computer Science at the University of Salerno (Italy).

His research interests include data compression and information hiding.

He was Associate Editor of IEEE Trans magazine. on Image Processing and is still Associate Editor of the international journals Algorithms and Security and Communication Networks. He was also chair and organizer of various international conferences including the International Conference on Data Compression, Communication and Processing, co-chair of the International Conference on Compression and Complexity of Sequences, and, for many years, a member of the program committee of the IEEE Data Compression Conference.

He has been responsible for several European Commission contracts in the field of data compression (compression of digital images and videos).

He directs the Data Compression Laboratory at the Computer Science Department of the University of Salerno.