curriculum vitae

 

Davide Rocchesso holds an undergraduate degree in Electronic Engineering, and in 1996 completed his PhD from the University of Padua in Computer Engineering and Industrial Electronics with specialization in sound. In 1994 and 1995 he was visiting scholar at Stanford University. He received post-doctorate research grants from the University of Padua and the Centro Tempo Reale in Florence. He began working at the University of Verona in 1998, first as a researcher, then as an associate professor. Since 2006 he has held the position of Associate Professor at the University Iuav of Venice. He is currently a board member the Italian Association of Musical Informatics (AIMI), for which he was also President from 2003 to 2006.

 

He has held courses on sound processing, operating systems, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction at the Universities of Padua, Verona, Pompeu Fabra in Barcellona, IUAV--Venice, and Helsinki University of Technology. He was reviewer or opponent for PhD dissertations at the Helsinki University of Technology, the University of Limerick, IRCAM - Paris, and INRIA - Sophia Antipolis. He has also supervised six PhD dissertation projects.

 

He has been coordinator for three projects involving several universities and industries, two European research projects, two European scientific collaboration projects, and a national research project.

 

He has given numerous seminars and presentations at international institutes and conferences. In 2000 he organized the COST-G6 Conference on Digital Audio Effects at the University of Verona. In 2008 he organized the XVII Colloquium on Musical Informatics in Venice.

 

He is the author of about a hundred and twenty publications in international conference proceedings, books, and journals, including over thirty international journal papers.

 

His research focuses on: models for sound in systems and products; sound synthesis by physical models; interaction design and evaluation.