Elisa Ricci is a Full Professor in the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science (DISI) at the University of Trento and Head of the Deep Visual Learning Research Unit at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (FBK). Her recent research focuses on multimodal learning, particularly vision–language models and multimodal large language models, with an emphasis on their adaptation, personalization and evaluation for visual understanding and reasoning.
She is a Fellow of the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) and a Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition (IAPR). She currently serves as Vice Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Multimedia (ACM SIGMM).