Giovanni Marchisio
Director - Product Development and Labs
DigitalGlobe

Biography
Giovanni Marchisio is the Director of Product Development and Labs at DigitalGlobe, where he is developing scalable image exploitation and search solutions for the largest commercial satellite image library in the world. Previously he worked for thirteen years for Insightful/Mathsoft, the maker of the statistical data mining platform S-PLUS, most recently as CTO and Vice President of R&D. He was also a Principal Investigator on 14 R&D contracts with NASA, DARPA, the USAF, the US Army and the NIH, and led a pioneering project in image mining with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. He has articulated novel ideas and architectures in the areas of multimedia retrieval, multispectral satellite image mining, and search engines. He is the author of several papers, book chapters, the primary inventor on ten recent US patents, and was an invited speaker at the US House of Representatives in 2001. He has been a visiting professor with the Department of Geophysics and Astronomy at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Vancouver, Canada. He holds a B.A.Sc. in Engineering from UBC and a Ph.D. in Geophysics and Planetary Physics from the University of California San Diego (Scripps).