Welcome! I am lecturer at the University of Glasgow (Department of Computing Science) and senior researcher of the Idiap Research Institute (Martigny, Switzerland), where I spent ten beautiful years before coming to Glasgow (1999-2009). My main research interest is the analysis of nonverbal-social behavior in real world situations like debates and meetings. In particular my work focuses on four major social phenomena: emergence and dynamics of conflicts, display of status and power relationships, role recognition, and communication effectiveness. This line of research builds upon Multimedia Content Analysis, which provides background for the extraction of information from audio and video recordings, and moves towards a new, emerging, domain called Social Signal Processing (SSP), which aims at recognizing social behavior through modeling, analysis and synthesis of nonverbal behavior. This activity involves three main components. The first is the identification of physical evidences and machine detectable aspects of human behavior most correlated with the social phenomena of interest. The second is the investigation of Multimedia Analysis techniques for the detection of behavior evidences. The third area is the automatic recognition of behavioral cues in terms of social signals, i.e. of relational attitudes exchanged by people.