Europass Curriculum Vitae

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Europass

Curriculum Vitae

Personal information

Surname(s) / First nam= e(s)

Mich Orn= ella

Address(es)

Via Ga= bbiolo, 14 – POVO (TN), Italy

Telephone(s)

0461 811319

Mobile:

340 23 66 791

E-mail

mich@itc.it

Web

http://tev.itc.it/people= /mich/

Nationality

Italian

Date of birth

15.09.1959

Gender

Female

Family Status

Married. Two daughters

Work experience	=



= Dates	October 1989 onwards
Occupation or position held	Researcher
Main activities and responsibili= ties	Working in research teams carrying= out: face recognition, image retrieval by content, CALL for children, Gender & Science. Managed consultants and followed students. Attended and presented talks in international conferences and lectures. Prepared and submitted project proposals to the EU in the field of Women in Science. § 2005 onwards. PARLING (ITC-irst) Design, realization and test of a CALL (Computer Assisted Lang= uage Learning) system for teaching English to Italian children. Design and implementation of PARLING web site. § 2000–onwards. Col= laboration with G&S, Gender & Science, a group of women with different exper= tise and a common concern towards gender issues in science. Among the G&S activities, organization of scientific lectures and mentoring actions, networking work, studying gender and science issues in their work environ= ment § 2002 – 2004 on the project PEACH (Personal Experience with Active Cultural Heritage) (funded= by the Autonomous Province of Trento). Collaborated at the design of a storytelling system for children, based on automatic speech recognition technology § 2002-2004 on the projec= t PF-STAR (EU Project) with the activity “Children and Voice Interaction with Computers”, aiming to design and develop multimodal interfaces exploiting available speech technology. § 2001 – Design and Implementation of the Web site of SSI – ITC-irst division § 2000-2001 on PRIMAVERA = (EU Project) (Personalized Retrieval and Indexing of Media Assets in Virtual Environments for Real-time Access). § 2000-2002 on PRESTO (EU Project), aiming to develop cost-effective technology and processes for audiovisual media § 1999-2000 on OPAL (EU E= sprit Project No. 25389). Collaboration on the design and development of COMPASS (Compu= ter Aided Search System), a distributed application for content-based image retrieval using remote databases. Design and realization of COMPASS web s= ite § 1995-1998 on EUROMEDIA = 1 and EUROMEDIA 2 (EU Projects). EUROMEDIA was a comprehensive video project tr= ying to apply all the current available technologies to provide indexing/retri= eval to digital video archives. Collaborated at the design and development of = the VIDEO (Video and Image Data Exploration and Organization) system. Design = and implementation of the VIDEO web site § 1995 Collaborated at the design and realization of SPOTIT!, an interactive identikit system for browsing of police mug-shots databases and creation of photographic quali= ty face reconstructions § 1993-1994 Psychophysics’ Experiment to determine the influence of the face position on the face recognition § 1990: Hardware implemen= tation of the algorithm FBS: design and realization § 1990 – 2005 Worke= d with the Computer Vision group § 1989 – 1990 Worke= d with the VLSI group. CMOS simulations
Name and address of employer	ITC-irst via Sommarive, 18 – 38050 POVO (TN) – Italy
Type of business or sector	Public Research Centre

Dates	June – July 2005
Occupation or position held	Project FSE 2002_2l.43.3 “LA D.O.T.E.” , LAvoro Donna Orientamento e TEcnologia: misure per la rimozione degli ostacoli alle carriere femminili nel settore dell’informatica”. Mentor and Teacher
Main activities and responsibili= ties	On-line Mentoring and Teaching act= ivity
Name and address of employer	University of = Trento, Italy – Department of Sociology and Social Research<= /p>

Dates	October 1988 – June 1989<= /span>
Occupation or = position held	Teacher
Main activities and responsibili= ties	Teaching Electronics and Electrote= chnics
Name and address of employer	Istituto Tecnico Industriale "Galileo Galilei". <= st1:City w:st=3D"on">Bolzano, Italy
Type of business or sector	Public High School

Dates	March 1987 – September 1988
Occupation or position held	Junior Designer
Main activities and responsibili= ties	Collaborated at the design and tes= ting of avionic radars
Name and address of employer	Fabbrica Italiana Apparecchiature Radioelettriche (FIAR) S.p.A. - Milano
Type of business or sector	Public Military factory

Education and training	=



Dates - Type of training - Where=	200= 7-onwards PhD Co= urse Free <= st1:PlaceType w:st=3D"on">University of Boze= n – Bolzano, = Italy



Dates - Type of training - Where	2004-2005 Advanc= ed Conversation in English Course CLM-BE= LL Trento, Italy


- Dates - Type of training - Where	2003 English course CAE (Cambridge Certificate Advanced = English CLM-BELL Trento, Italy


- Dates - Type of training - Where	2002 Two days Course:= Didattica in rete: materiali e gioc= hi online IPRASE – T= rento, Italy


- Dates - Type of training - Where	2002 Conference Tutorial: User-interface Design for Work, Home, and on the Way Sixth International Working Confer= ence on Advanced Visual Interfaces (AVI 2002) – Trento, Italy


- Dates - Type of training - Where	2001 English course FCE (Cambridge First Certificate in English) CLM-BELL Trento, Italy


- Dates - Type of training - Where	2000 = Conference Tutorial: Emotion and Paralingui= stic Communication = IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo


- Dates - Type of training - Where	2000 = Conference Tutorial: Multi-modal Interfaces= for the Physically Able and Disable = IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo


- Dates - Type of training - Where	2000 English course PET (Cambridge Preliminary English T= est) CLM-BELL Trento, Italy


- Dates - Type of training - Where	1997 A week-long custom (full-time) cour= se Durham, UK


- Dates - Title of qualification awarded= - Name and type of organization providing education and training	1988 Certificate of Qualification for Engineer Profession (Abilitazione all’esercizio della professione di Ingegnere) Ministero della = pubblica Istruzione, Italy


- Dates - Title of qualification awarded= - Name and type of organization providing education and training	1987 Electronic Engineering Degree (100/110) University of Padova, Italy


- Dates - Title of qualification awarded= - Name and type of organization providing education and training	1978 Scientific Upper School= leaving Certifi= cate (60/60) Liceo Scientific= o - Istituto Marcelline – Bolzano, Italy

Personal skills and competences<= /span>	=



Mother tongue(s)	Italian

Other language(s)
Self-assessment=	=	Understanding	Speaking	Writing
European level (*)		Listening	Reading	Spoken interaction=	Spoken production<= /span>
English		C1	Proficient User=	C1	Proficient User=	C1	Proficient User=	C1	Proficient User=	C1	Proficient User=
German		A2	Basic User	A2	Basic User	A1	Basic User	A1	Basic User	A1	Basic User
	(*) Common European Fr= amework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)(see Appendix 1)

Social skills and comp= etences	- Team work: I have work= ed in various types of research teams. - Mediating skills

Organizational skills = and competences	- I co-organized a natio= nal conference in 2000. - I organized a mentoring series a= nd some scientific lectures.

Computer skills and competences	Good knowledge of Windows OS and L= inux OS Good experience with Microsoft Off= ice^TM tools (Word^{TM, PowerPoint^TM,Excel^TM)} Good knowledge of programming lang= uages such as C, C++, Java, Pascal, LISP and of software development environmen= ts such as Eclipse Good knowledge of script languages= such as Perl, TclTk Good knowledge of web languages su= ch as html and javascript Good knowledge of graphics softwar= e such as Gimp, Photoshop^TM, Illustrator^TM, InDesign^TM<= /span> Knowledge of statistic software, s= uch as Stast4U and SPSS^TM

Other skills and compe= tences	Good autonomy in acquiri= ng new competencies and in tackling organizational issues








Additional information
	PERSONAL INTERESTS Bioarchitecture, alternative energy sources, and alternative medicine. Sports, e.g., ski, snowboard, bike, tracking, sail. Reading, e.g., crime stories, historical novels. Traveling and meeting different cu= ltures. Playing piano.

Scientific Publications

= Journal Papers

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

2007

The effectiveness of Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training for foreign language learning by children= (with A. Neri, M.Gerosa, D.Giuliani)

Submitted

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

2006

An Italian Study on Gender and Management in Science and IT (with M. Cozza and A. Perini)

Submitted

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

2001

Histograms analysis for image retrieval (with R. Brune= lli)

Pattern Recognition Vol. 34, Issue= 8, pp. 1625-1637, August 2001

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

2000

Image retrieval by examples (with R. Brunelli)

IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, V= ol. 2, Nr. 3, pp. 164-171, September 2000

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

1999

A Survey on the Automatic Indexing of Video Data (with R. Brunelli and C.M. Modena)

Journal of visual communication an= d image representation, Nr. 10, pp. 78-112, 1999

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

1996

SpotIt! An Interactive Identikit System (with R. Brunelli)

Graphical Models and Image Process= ing, Vol. 58, Nr. 5, pp.399-404, September 1996

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= Refereed Int’l Conferences

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

2007

E-learning and Unusual Users: LODE and Deaf Children (with R. Gennari)

Submitted

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

2007

Temporal Reasoning with Constraints for E-learning: LODE (with R.Gennari)

Submitted

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

2007

LODE: Global Reasoning on e-Stories for Deaf Children (with R. Gennari)

Proc. of the Engineered Applications of Semantic Web, SWEA, invited session of the 11th Intern= ational Conference on Knowledge-Based & Intelligent Information & Enginee= ring Systems, KES 2007, Vietri sul Mare, Italy, 12–14 September, 200= 7, LNAI/LNCS Springer.

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

2007

E-learning and Deaf Children: A Logic-based Web Tool (= with R. Gennari)

iProc. of the 6th Interna= tional Conference on Web-based Learning, ICWL 2007, Edinburgh, Scotland, 15–17 August, 2007.

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

2006

The effectiveness of a Computer Assisted Pronunciation Training System for Yo= ung Foreign Language Learners (with D. Giuliani= and A. Neri)

Proceedings of CALL Conference 200= 6, University of Antwerp. Belgium - August 2006

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

2004

Gender in Information Technology: Review of a Mentoring Initiative (with C. Armaro= li, E. Costantini, F. Guerzoni, C. Malacarne)

Human perspectives in the internet society: culture, psychology and gender / editors K. Morgan [et al.]. Southampton ; Boston, Mass. : WIT press, 2004

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

2004

Parling, a CALL system for children (with D. Giulian= i and M. Gerosa)

Proceedings of InSTILL/ICALL2004 S= ymposium on Computyer Assisted Language Learning - Venice – Italy, June 2004

· Year of publication/sub= mission

· Title (co-authors)

· Typology

2004

PARLING: e-Literature for Supporting Children Learning English as a Second Language (with E. Betta and D. Giuliani)

IUI/CADUI Intelligent User Interfaces Island of Madeira, Portugal - January 2004

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

2003

A Study on the Use of a Voice Interactive System for Teaching English to Italian Children (with D. Giuliani and M. N= ardon)

ICALT 2003, 3^rd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies, Athens, Greece, July 2003

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

2003

Mentoring for Women in Science: a Case Study (with C. Armaroli, S. Beatrici, L. Ferrario, M. Nardon and A. Perini)

EAEEIE 2003, 14^th EAEEI= E Annual Conference on Innovation in Education for Electrical and Information Engineering (EIE), Gdansk Poland, June 2003

§ Year of publication/sub= mission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

2002

Content Based Indexing and Retrieval in a Large Scale Television Archive (with C. Bauer, R. Brunelli, F. Husein, T. Kunkelmann, S. Schneider, A. Steinmetz)

Research and Advances Technology f= or Digital Technology : 6^th European Conference, ECDL 2002, Rome, Italy. Proceedings. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Sept= ember 2002

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

2002

Can mentoring be used as a positive action to favour the presence of women in= science? (with C. Armaroli, S. Beatrici, L. Ferrario, A. Perini)

Proceedings of the 13^th= EAEEIE Annual Conference on Innovations in Education for Electrical and Informat= ion Engineering (EIE), York, England, April 2002<= /p>

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

2002

Warped Metrics for Image Similarity Retrieval (wit= h R. Brunelli)

SPIE Electronic Imaging 2002, San Jose, California, January 2002

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

2000

Query simplification and strategy selection for image retrieval (with R. Brunelli)

Proceedings of the ICPR 2000, 15th International Conference on Pattern Recognition, <= st1:City w:st=3D"on">Barcelona, Spain<= /st1:country-region>, September 2000

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

2000

COMPASS: an image retrieval system for distributed databases (with R. Brunelli)

Proceedings of ICME 2000, IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, <= st1:City w:st=3D"on">New York City, August 2000

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

2000

Efficient Image Retrieval by Examples (with R. Brunel= li)

Proceedings of 5^th IFIP= 2.6 Working Conference on VISUAL DATABASE SYSTEMS - VDB5, Fukuoka, Japan, May 2000

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

1999

On the use of histograms for image retrieval (= with R. Brunelli)

Proceedings of IEEE Multimedia Sys= tems 1999, International Conference on Multimedia Computing and Systems, Florence, Italy, June 1999

= Others

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

2006

Una fotografi= a della distribuzione di genere del personale di un istituto di ricerca italiano al termin= e del 2004. Quali i cambiamenti dal 1990? (with B. Detassis, C. Malcarne, M. Speranza)

Proceedings of C= onvegno Donne e Scienza WS06, Padova, Italy, September 2006

§ Year of publication/sub= mission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

2005

Testing a System that Supports = Children in Learning English as a FL: Implications for a More Effective Design (with A. Neri and D. Giu= liani)

ITC-irst, Technical report #T05-06= -02, June 2005, 4 pp.

Presented at the Workshop "Ch= ild Computer Interaction: Methodological Research", at INTERACT 2005. Communicating Naturally through Computers, Rome, Italy, September 2005.

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

2000

COMPASS: Computer Aided Search System (with R. Brune= lli)

Demo Session - RIAO 2000, Paris, France, April 2000

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

1998

VIDEO: Video and Image Data Exploration and Organization (with R. Brunelli)

Proceedings of the Workshop Image = and Video Content-based Retrieval, Milan, Italy, February 1998

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

1997

Video Segmentation and Navigation at ITC-irst (wi= th R. Brunelli)

Euromedia Workshop, Vienna, March 1997

§ Year of publication/sub= mission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

1994

Viewpoint Dependence in Face Recognition

ITC-irst Technical Report #9401-06, January 1994

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

1990

Sensori Ottici Digitali CMOS. Caratterizzazione

ITC-irst Technical Report #9012-09, December 1990

§ Year of publication/submission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

1990<= /span>

Guida all'Uso= del Sistema di Progettazione Xilinx (with A. Simoni)

ITC-irst Technical Report #9008-10= , August 1990

= Patents

§ Year of publication/sub= mission

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

1997

Method of Storing and Retrieving Images of People, for Example, in Photographic Archives and for the Construction of Images= (Inventors: R. Brunelli, O. Mich)

United States Patent 5,764,790. Granted October 29, 1997

PEER ESTEEMS

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= Invited Presentations

§ Year

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

2005<= /span>

PARLING. Un sistema CALL per bambini<= /o:p>

Lecture at ITC-irst – Decemb= er 2005

§ Year

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

2003<= /span>

PARLI= NG: e-literature per i bambini italiani che studiano l'inglese

invited presentation at Didattica Assistita dalle Nuove Tecnologie - Seminario sperimentazioni IPRASE - Trento, Italy November 2003

§ Year

§ Title (co-authors)

§ Typology

2001

COMPASS and VIDEO at SuchBilder=

invited presentation at SuchBilder (Searching Images) - Berlin<= /st1:City>, Germany, February 2001

= Program Committee Member

§ Year

§ What

2006

STAIRS 2006 – Third European Starting AI Researcher Symposium – Riva Del Garda, Italy

= Others

§ Year

§ What

2006

Organizing Committee – Printing and Publicity Co-Chair - ECAI 2006<= span lang=3DEN-US> – Riva d= el Garda, Italy

§ Year

§ What

2006

Co-organizer of Collocated Events of ECAI 2006 – <= st1:place w:st=3D"on">Riva del Garda, Italy

§ Year

§ What

2006

Organizer of the lecture :”COME In: = un sito per l’insegnamento/apprendimento delle lingue straniere nella scuola primaria” by F. Bianchi, at ITC-irst – Trento, Italy

§ Year

§ What

2004

Application Committee - RIAO 2004 – University of Avignon, France

§ Year

§ What

2003-2004

Steering Committee Women in Science Winter 2003-2004 Lectures at ITC-irst, Italy

§ Year

§ What

2002-2003

Steering Committee Women in Science Winter 2002-2003 Lectures at ITC-irst, Italy

§ Year

§ What

2002-2003

Referee for the journal IEEE Transactions on Image Processing <= /b>

§ Year

§ What

2001-2002

Referee for the journal IEEE Transactions on Multimedia

§ Year

§ What

2001

Referee for the journal Real-Time Systems

§ Year

§ What

2002-2004

Coordinator of the group G&S – Gender and Sci= ence

§ Year

§ What

2000

Organizing Committee of the conference “Genere, Scienza e Tecnologia” – Trento= , Italy

§ Year

§ What

2000

Co-founder of the group G&S – Gender and Sci= ence

Appendix 1

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CEFR - Global Scale

Proficient User	C2	Can understand with ease virtually everything heard or rea= d. Can summarize information from different spoken and written sources, reconstructing arguments and accounts in a coherent presentation. Can express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differe= ntiating finer shades of meaning even in more complex situations.
C1	Can un= derstand a wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognize implicit meaning. = Can express him/herself fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Can use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Can produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing controlled = use of organizational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices.
Independent User	B2	Can un= derstand the main ideas of complex text on both concrete and abstract topics, including technical discussions in his/her field of specialization. Can interact with a degree of fluency and spontaneity that makes regular interaction with native speakers quite possible without strain for eith= er party. Can produce clear, detailed text on a wide range of subjects and explain a viewpoint on a topical issue giving the advantages and disadvantages of various options.
B1	Can un= derstand the main points of clear standard input on familiar matters regularly encountered in work, school, leisure, etc. Can deal with most situations likely to arise whilst traveling in an area where the language is spoke= n. Can produce simple connected text on topics which are familiar or of personal interest. Can describe experiences and events, dreams, hopes &= amp; ambitions and briefly give reasons and explanations for opinions and pl= ans.
Basic User	A2	Can un= derstand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment). Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters. Can describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immed= iate need.
A1	Can un= derstand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at t= he satisfaction of needs of a concrete type. Can introduce him/herself and others and can ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, people he/she knows and things he/she has. Can inte= ract in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and = is prepared to help.