Vitoantonio Bevilacqua is Full Professor of Bioengineering at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Bari (DEI-POLIBA) and Coordinator of the Master's Degree Course in Medical Systems Engineering.
He holds a degree in Electronic Engineering, a PhD in Electrical Engineering, and a post-doctorate in Industrial Informatics from the Polytechnic University of Bari, as well as the National Scientific Qualification (ASN) as Full Professor in the field of Information Processing Systems.
In March 2019, he founded Apulian Bioengineering srl, a start-up and spin-off of the Polytechnic University of Bari, where he is currently CEO. In September 2019, he joined the BioRobotics Institute of the Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies in Pisa as an Affiliate Professor.
He is currently Head of the Industrial Informatics Laboratory and also Sole Representative and Scientific Coordinator of the Public-Private Laboratory "Cognitive Diagnostics," born from a partnership between the Polytechnic University of Bari and Comau S.p.A.
He has published more than 240 scientific articles.

Since 1996, he has been conducting research in the fields of computer vision and image processing, bioengineering, and human-machine interaction based on machine learning and soft computing techniques (neural networks, evolutionary algorithms, hybrid expert systems, deep learning).
The main applications of his research are in the medical, biometric, bioinformatics, ambient assisted living, and industrial fields.
In July 2000, he participated as a Visiting Researcher in a TMR (Trans-Mobility of Researchers) network funded by the EC (ERB FMRX-CT97-0127), called CAMERA (CAd Modeling Environment from Range Images), working in Manchester (United Kingdom) at UK Robotics Ltd in the field of geometric feature extraction and 3D object reconstruction.
He has published more than 240 international articles and chaired several sessions at international conferences on topics such as Speech Recognition, Biomedical Informatics, Intelligent Image Processing, and Bioinformatics.
In July 2011, he was invited as a lecturer at the International School on Medical Imaging using Bioinspired and Soft Computing – Miere (Spain), MIBISOC FP7-PEOPLE-ITN-2008, GA No. 238819, where he presented his research on "Intelligent Tumors Computer Aided Early Diagnosis and Therapy: Neural Network and Genetic Algorithms frameworks."