CV

Education

From the 1st of October 2007 he has been a PhD student at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
In 2007 he obtained the specialisation degree (MSc equivalent) in Sistemi intelligenti e multimediali (Intelligent and multimedia systems) at the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Science of the University of Verona (Italy). He graduated with the dissertation: Hyperinterpolation at Xu points and interpolation at Padua points in the square: computational aspects, originally written in English (field: computational mathematics), available here.
In 2004 he obtained the degree (BSc equivalent) in Tecnologie dell'Informazione: multimedia (Information Technology: multimedia) at the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Science of the University of Verona (Italy). He graduated with the dissertation: Design and development of a user interface based on a 3D pointer.
High school diploma obtained in 2001 at the Liceo scientifico statale Leonardo Da Vinci in Arzignano (VI), Italy.

Abroad studies

Currently PhD student at the University of East Anglia, Norwich (UK).
Semester preparing the Master's dissertation (October 2006 - March 2007) at the university of Göttingen, Germany, with the Erasmus exchange programme.
Summer schools of English language in the UK in 1997 (Exmouth), 1998 (Cambridge), 1999 (Cardiff) and 2000 (Eastbourne).

Technical skills

During the PhD he has developed advanced skills of Matlab and C programming, especially numerical methods and signal processing (imaging). During previous studies and experiences, he has become familiar with Windows, Linux and Mac OSX systems, Java and C++programming, dynamic web pages and database developing. He is and advanced LaTeX user and has experience with office suites (MS Office and OpenOffice).

Language knowledge

Italian: mother tongue.
English: advanced (fluently spoken and correctly written). TOEFL iBT proficiency certificate with final mark 108/120, obtained in September 2007, before starting the studies in the UK.
German: basic conversation and writing skills.
French: minimal knowledge, ability to understand written text.

Experiences

In 2006, during an internship at the charity Ciberclub Onlus in Verona (Italy), obtained through the university, he administrated a small computer network and a server. In August 2006 he was hired as a freelance to design and implement the architecture of the website of the Nonnoweb project, programming in SQL, ASP and HTML.
Between 2004 and 2005 he joined the university network Fuori Aula Network, founding and writing articles for a scientific column.
Teaching experience: informatics for humanity students at the University of Verona. Lab tutor at the computer science department of the University of Verona for the following courses: Algorithms and data structures, Introduction to computer science, Programming, Software engineering.

Publications

Marco Caliari, Marco Vianello, Stefano De Marchi and Roberto Montagna. HYPER2D: a numerical code for hyperinterpolation at Xu points on rectangles. Appl. Math. Comput. 183 (2006), 1138-1147.

Conference publications

Graham D. Finlayson, Roberto Montagna and David Connah. A Unified Approach to Colour2Grey and Image Enhancement Through Gradient Field Integration. In Proc. Seventeenth Color Imaging Conference (2009).
Roberto Montagna and Graham D. Finlayson. Reducing integrability artefacts for data fusion through colour space manipulation. In Proc. IEEE Color and Reflectance in Imaging and Computer Vision Workshop (2009).
Graham D. Finlayson and Roberto Montagna. Optimal interpolation and Lp norm minimisation in colour indexing. In Proc. Sixteenth Color Imaging Conference (2008).
Roberto Montagna and Graham D. Finlayson. Histogram compression and image retrieval through Padua points interpolation. In Proc. Fourth European Conference on Color in Graphics, Imaging and Vision (2008).