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Emanuele Colleoni is a leading researcher at the intersection of computer vision, deep learning, and robot-assisted surgery. His work focuses on developing intelligent systems that can perceive, understand, and assist in minimally invasive surgical procedures. Colleoni’s primary contributions lie in surgical tool detection, segmentation, and articulation estimation—critical tasks for enabling automation and context-aware assistance in the operating room. He pioneered the use of spatio-temporal deep learning layers for robust tool joint detection from laparoscopic video, tackling challenges like variable illumination and occlusions. His research on simulation-supervised image synthesis (e.g., SSIS-Seg) and image-to-image translation has advanced the field by reducing reliance on expensive, manually annotated surgical datasets. Colleoni also contributed to the MICCAI 2020 SurgVisDom Challenge, addressing the critical problem of domain adaptation in surgical data science. His work on visual kinematic force estimation for knot tying aims to provide automated force feedback, a key missing element in current robotic surgery systems. With over 200 citations, Colleoni’s research is foundational for the next generation of computer-assisted interventions, surgical skills assessment, and autonomous robotic assistance.