PI Stories by Fabio Poiesi (Fondazione Bruno Kessler)

PI Stories is a series of seminars organized by the IECS (former ICT) Doctoral School, aimed at providing the opportunity to the PhD students to learn the success stories of some of the most talented researchers in the world. Details at: iecs.unitn.it/...
Good practices learnt as a young PI
Winning your first research grant is difficult because you have to convince a reviewing committee that you are the best candidate, which can reliably deliver although you do not have prior PI experience.
In this talk I will go through a selection of successful and unsuccessful proposals I contributed to in topics related to Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, and that I hope can provide useful insights to the audience for writing future proposals. By going through the reviewers' feedback I received on these proposals, we will analyse weaknesses that we should avoid and strengths that we could exploit to increase the chances of getting a proposal accepted. Lastly, I will present some of the research activities that I found helpful to prepare myself for the management of the project.