Valerio Bellandi received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science at the Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy in 2004 and 2009,  espectively. He is currently a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Dipartimento di Tecnologie dell’Informazione of the Università degli Studi di Milano. His research interests are in computer vision, location algorithm and network communication protocol, with special regard to feature extraction methods and emotional state estimation by facial analysis. He is also involved in several research projects regarding link management protocol in optical network.