People

Marco Knaflitz is actually a Full Professor at Politecnico di Torino. He has been active since 1985 in the fields of design of biomedical instrumentation and biomedical signal analysis. Specifically, his research interests are mainly focused on the detection and analysis of the myoelectric signal for research and clinical applications.

Filippo Molinari is currently a Full Professor at Politecnico di Torino. His main research activities are: atherosclerosis and artery plaque assessment, non-invasive characterization of tumor vascularization, neuroimaging for the advanced assessment of neurodegenerative disorders, neurovascular and metabolic assessment of cerebral autoregulation.

Valentina Agostini is currently an Associate Professor. Her current research interests are in statistical gait analysis and static posturography.

Since 1993 Gabriella Balestra has been on the Faculty of Politecnico di Torino, where she teaches decision support systems. Her research interests include biomedical signal interpretation, decision support systems, medical informatics, and telemedicine.

Samanta Rosati is currently an Assistant Professor with a time contract. Her research is focused on biomedical data interpretation and signal processing.

Kristen M. Meiburger is currently a Tenure-track Assistant Professor. She is mainly active in the field of biomedical image processing, with a focus on ultrasound and photoacoustic imaging, radiomics and deep learning applications. She is also active in the field of biomedical signal processing and, particularly, in ultrasound and photoacoustic image reconstruction methods.

Massimo Salvi is currently an Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Torino. In addition to his work in biomedical signal and image processing, Massimo Salvi is also actively engaged in the field of artificial intelligence and deep learning. He has experience in the development of hybrid techniques that combine AI-based methods and mathematical-statistical techniques to address complex problems in biomedical research.

Marco Ghislieri is currently a Assistant Professor with time contract at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of Politecnico di Torino, Italy. He is mainly active in the field of biomedical signal processing, with a main focus on surface electromyographic signal analysis during cyclical movements in healthy and pathological conditions. He is also active in the field of neuro-engineering and, particularly, in motor control strategy assessment through the analysis of the muscle synergies.

Silvia Seoni is currently a Research Assistant at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Her research is mainly focused on acquisition, analyses and interpretation of biomedical signals.

Noemi Giordano is currently a Research Assistant at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Her research is mainly focused on the design of devices with application in cardiology, cardiological signal interpretation and telemedicine.

Francesco Branciforti is currently a Ph.D. student (Bioengineering and Medical-Surgical Sciences) at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of Politecnico di Torino, Italy. His research is mainly focused on dermatological image analysis and particularly on the design and development of a smartphone-based microscope and innovative deep learning techniques for normalizing, segmenting and classifying skin lesions. 

Gregorio Dotti was born in Torino, Italy. He received his Master’s Degree in Biomedical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, in 2021. He currently holds a scholarship at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of Politecnico di Torino, Italy. His research is mainly focused on the analysis of EMG signals using data mining and machine learning techniques.

She is a Ph.D. student in Bioengineering and Medical-Surgical Sciences at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Specifically, her research is mainly focused on tumor characterization using Artificial Intelligence techniques and a Multiomics approach, i.e., combining radiological, histopathological, and clinical data.

Giulia Rotunno is a Ph.D. student in Bioengineering and Medical-Surgical Sciences at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Her research is mainly focused on image processing and in particular on the acquisition, reconstruction and processing of OCT/OCTA volumes.

Yanhua Zhang was born in Nanyang, China. He received his Master’s Degree in Navigation, Guidance and Control from Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xian, China, in 2020. Currently, he is a Ph.D. student in Control Science and Engineering at the School of Aerospace of Northwestern Polytechnical University, China and a visiting student at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of Politecnico di Torino, Italy. His research is mainly focused on medical image segmentation and deep learning.

He is currently a PhD student in Artificial Intelligence at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of Politecnico di Torino, Italy. His research is mainly focused on the use of machine learning techniques for the development of a digital twin associated with a telemedicine platform with applications in cardiology.

Fabrizio Sciscenti is currently a Ph.D. student in Bioengineering and Medical and Surgical Sciences at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy. His research is mainly focused on biomedical signal processing with a particular emphasis on surface electromyographic signal analysis during gait and motor-cognitive dual tasks, to support clinicians in the management of PD patients undergoing Deep Brain Stimulation neurosurgery.

Andrea Ferraris is currently a Ph.D. student in Bioengineering and Medical and Surgical Sciences at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy. His research is mainly focused on synthetic image generation, ultrasound simulator design, and the development of innovative AI evaluation metrics, alongside advancements in computer vision models for image segmentation.

Bruna Cotrufo is currently a Ph.D. student in Bioengineering and Medical and Surgical Sciences at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy. Her research is mainly focused on photoacoustic imaging, particularly on simulation, acquisition and processing of photoacoustic images.

Alen Shahini is currently a Ph.D. student in Bioengineering and Medical and Surgical Sciences at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy. His main area of expertise includes the development and validation of monomodal and multimodal artificial intelligence techniques, for the analysis and processing of medical data and images, in the field of precision oncology and digital pathology, for classification, segmentation, prediction and simulation purposes.