Leila De Floriani

About

Leila De Floriani is a full professor at the University of Maryland with a joint appointment with the Department of Geographical Sciences and University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). She is also affiliated with the Department of Computer Science, with the Center for Geospatial Information Science and with the Center for Automation Research. She has previously been a professor at the University of Genova (Italy), where she developed the first undergraduate and graduate curricula in computer graphics in Italy, and served as Director of the Ph.D. program in Computer Science for eight years. She has also held positions at the University of Nebraska, at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and at the Italian National Research Council. De Floriani was the 2020 Presid