Post-doctoral Research Fellow Harvard Medical School Dept. of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital Research Affiliate Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Education

2004	Laurea degree (BS+MS) in Electronic Engineering from Università degli studi di Firenze, Italy. Thesis title: "A Brain-Computer Interface by means of evolutionary methods of EEG-signals processing".
2009	PhD in Biorobotics Science and Engineering jointly offered by IMT Lucca and Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy. Thesis title: "Development of a neural interface for the control of a robotic hand". PhD coordinator: Paolo Dario. Supervisors: Silvestro Micera and Oliver Tonet.

Interests

I am currently working on the statistical analysis of human cardiovascular rhythms. I study, together with my supervisor Dr Barbieri, stochastic models of cardiovascular control where heart beat intervals are governed by a history-dependent point process. This framework allows for new definitions of heart rate and heart rate variability based on the statistical properties of the point process.

I am also interested in non-invasive Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) and Event-Related Potentials (ERPs). In the past I have been a senior research officer at the BCI group of the University of Essex, UK, working with Prof Poli on ERP-based BCIs.

During my PhD, I worked on the processing of neural signals recorded from invasive peripheral nerve interfaces for the control of a robotic arm. The decoding algorithm I developed was used in a pioneering implant of a neurally controlled hand by a human amputee (explanatory video in Italian).

 
NEWS!!!

I was recently appointed Lecturer in Computational Intelligence at the University of Essex, UK.

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