Vincenzo Lomonaco was born in San Giovanni Rotondo (FG), Italy, in 1991. He spent his childhood in Basilicata and, after getting his scientific lyceum diploma, he moved to Modena. After less than three years, he graduated cum laude in computer science. Attracted by the great reputation and research activities in Bologna, he decided to start his masters in computer science there. In 2015, he graduated cum laude with the dissertation, Deep Learning for Computer Vision: A comparison between Convolutional Neural Networks and Hierarchical Temporal Memories on object recognition tasks. He's currently a PhD student at University of Bologna, working on deep learning and biologically-inspired pattern recognition.