Marketing Director
Pier Paolo Porta was born in Fidenza, Italy on May 25th, 1980. In July 2005, he earned a Dr. Ing. (Masters) degree in Electronic Engineering from the Università di Parma, Italy. Also in 2005, he joined VisLab, the Artificial Vision research group at the Università di Parma, where, in 2010, he earned a PhD in Information Technology.
In 2009, Porta became one of the founding associates of the VisLab srl spinout. From 2010, he was on the Board of Governors for the company until it merged with Ambarella in 2015. He is now a Marketing Director responsible for Ambarella’s automotive European business as well as stereovision-related product marketing.
Porta’s background is in autonomous driving and ADAS, with deep technical expertise in stereovision, sensor fusion and traffic-sign recognition. He took part in the DARPA Grand Challenge, as a member of the VisLab team in 2005 and 2007. Additionally, he participated in the VIAC project in 2010 and the PROUD project in 2013. Porta is the author of numerous papers that have been published in international scientific journals and conference proceedings.
