People

Marco Knaflitz

Position: Full Professor
Email: marco.knaflitz@polito.it
Short Biography:

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.

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Filippo Molinari

Position: Full Professor
Email: filippo.molinari@polito.it
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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.

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Gabriella Balestra

Position: Confirmed Assistant Professor
Email: gabriella.balestra@polito.it
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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.

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Samanta Rosati

Position: Assistant Professor with time contract (RTD/b)
Email: samanta.rosati@polito.it
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Samanta Rosati is currently an Assistant Professor with a time contract. Her research is focused on biomedical data interpretation and signal processing.

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Kristen M. Meiburger

Position: Tenure-track Assistant Professor (RTD/b)
Email: kristen.meiburger@polito.it
Short Biography:

Kristen M. Meiburger is currently a Tenure-track Assistant Professor. She is mainly active in the field of biomedical image processing, with a main focus on vascular network analysis using biomedical optical imaging methods (i.e., optical coherence tomography angiography, photoacoustics) and radiomics and deep learning applications. She is also active in the field of biomedical signal processing and, particularly, in ultrasound image beamforming methods.

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Massimo Salvi

Position: Assistant Professor with time contract (RTD/a)
Email: massimo.salvi@polito.it
Short Biography:

Massimo Salvi is currently an Assistant Professor with time contract (RTD/a) at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of Politecnico di Torino, Italy. His research interests include image processing, biomedical signal interpretation and deep learning.

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Marco Ghislieri

Position: Assistant Professor with time contract (RTDa)
Email: marco.ghislieri@polito.it
Short Biography:

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.

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Silvia Seoni

Position: Research Assistant
Email: silvia.seoni@polito.it
Short Biography:

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

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Noemi Giordano

Position: Research Assistant
Email: noemi.giordano@polito.it
Short Biography:

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.

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Francesco Marzola

Position: Ph.D. Student
Email: francesco.marzola@polito.it
Short Biography:

Francesco Marzola is currently a PhD student at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of Politecnico di Torino, Italy. His research activity is mainly focused on image processing with attention on deep-learning applications for the segmentation and synthesis of images, particularly in ultrasonography.

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Jovana Panic

Position: Ph.D. Student
Email: jovana.panic@polito.it
Short Biography:

Jovana Panic is currently a PhD student at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of Politecnico di Torino, Italy. Her research is mainly focused on analyses and interpretation of biomedical images processing with the application of artificial intelligence techniques.

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Francesco Branciforti

Position: Ph.D. Student
Email: francesco.branciforti@polito.it
Short Biography:

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. 

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Gregorio Dotti

Position: Ph.D. Student
Email: gregorio.dotti@polito.it
Short Biography:

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.

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Giulia Nicoletti

Position: Ph.D. Student
Email: giulia.nicoletti@polito.it
Short Biography:

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.

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Giulia Rotunno

Position: Ph.D. Student
Email: giulia.rotunno@polito.it
Short Biography:

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.

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Yanhua Zhang

Position: Visiting Ph.D. Student
Email: yanhuazhang@mail.nwpu.edu.cn
Short Biography:

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.

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Andrea Scotto

Position: Ph.D. Student
Email: andrea.scotto@polito.it
Short Biography:

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.

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Fabrizio Sciscenti

Position: Ph.D. Student
Email: fabrizio.sciscenti@polito.it
Short Biography:

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.

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Alumni

  • Bruno De Santi
  • Chiara Foglietta
  • Cristina Caresio
  • Cristina Castagneri
  • Daniele Fortunato
  • Daniele Rimini
  • Emma Chiaramello
  • Giangiacomo Lintas
  • Giuseppe Frasca
  • Issei Takahashi
  • Maddalena Zema
  • Neven Saleh
  • Niccolò Piacentini
  • Nicola Michielli
  • Sadegh Riyahi-Alam
  • Xue Han