Fabio Salice

Associate Professor – Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering

Fabio Salice is an associate professor in the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria (DEIB) of Politecnico di Milano. Currently, his research interests are mainly focused on ICT Assistive Technologies for fragile people (in particular for elderly and low cognitive disabilities); other research topics are design and synthesis methodologies of dependable systems, fault identification and fault injection methodologies and criteria, pervasive systems design and method including issues concerning low power, power management and energy harvesting. In 2010 Fabio founded the interdisciplinary ATGroup – in Como Campus – structuring a set of collaborations with both the third sector associations and private and public organization (ASL, hospitals, residences, …). Furthermore, in 2012, Fabio founded with ARCOIRIS (Third Sector Partner) the CRAiS Center (Centro Risorse per le Autonomie e l’Inclusione Sociale); CRAiS aims at supporting individuals, families and contexts in fragile condition and social vulnerability. He has published more than 100 papers on international journals, books, and congress proceedings. He received the best paper awards during IEEE IJCNN’92, IEEE ICONIP’95, IEEE ICCD’98 and the Outstanding Achievement Award from CISCO Systems in 2010. He received his Dr.Eng in electronic engineering and his PhD in Electronic and Communication, both from the Politecnico di Milano; in 1992 he was a visiting scholar at the Stanford University. He is a member of IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society.

   Sara Comai

Associate Professor – Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering
Sara Comai is associate professor at the Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione of Politecnico di Milano since March 2007. She received her Ph.D. in Ingegneria Informatica e Automatica from Politecnico di Milano on January 13, 2000. Her recent research interests include methods and tools for the development of haptic-based applications, the study of presentation issues of Web interfaces, the specification, design and automatic generation of complex Web applications, the design of interfaces for people with special needs.

   Matteo Matteucci

Assistant Professor – Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering

Matteo Matteucci (“Laurea” degree 1999, MS 2002, Phd 2003) is Assistant Professor (“Ricercatore di Ruolo Confermato”) at the Department of Electronics and Information of Politecnico di Milano.Divided between Robotics and Algorithms for Machine Learning, in 1999 he got a Laurea degree in Computer Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, in 2002 he got a Master of Science in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining at Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA), and in 2003 a PhD in Computer Engineering and Automation at Politecnico di Milano (Milan, Italy). In the field of human computer interaction he has done research in assistive technologies for the support of disabled people both for communication (e.g., Alternative and Augmentative Languages, Brain-Computer Interfaces) and motion (e.g., the development of an autonomous wheelchair with a multimodal interface). He has also applied various pattern recognition techniques in Affective Computing to the recognition of affective conditions (e.g., attention, stress,enjoyment, etc.) in real scenarios (e.g., rehabilitation, video games,etc.)

   Andrea Bonarini

Professor – Robotics and Affective Computing, DEIB
Andrea Bonarini is full professor at Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB) of Politecnico di Milano. He got a PhD in Computer Engineering in 1989 from Politecnico di Milano and a master in Neuro-Linguistic Programming in 1993, from IIPNL. He coordinates the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics LAb at Politecnico di Milano since 1990. He is among the founders of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence (AI*IA) (chair of the Robotics Working Group 2003-2006) and of the Italian Chapter of the IEEE Computational Intelligence Society (chair 2008-2010). His background includes Artificial Intelligence, Human-Computer Interaction, Knowledge Engineering, Machine Learning, and Robotics. His current research interests are in Affective Computing, Human-Robot Interaction, and Autonomous Robotic Agents. He has published more than 140 papers on international journals, books, and congress proceedings.

   Matteo Cesana

Assistant Professor – Wired and Wireless Technology
Matteo Cesana is an Assistant Professor of the Electronics and Information Department of the Politecnico di Milano. His research activities are in the field of design, optimization and implementation of wireless network protocols.

   Giuseppe Pozzi

Associate Professor – Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering

Since November 1st, 2002 Giuseppe Pozzi has been associate professor at the Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria of the Politecnico di Milano. Giuseppe Pozzi’s past interests include computer-based analysis of the electrocardiographical signal, multiservice software for medicine, biomedical image compression, classification of public domain medical software, object-oriented and temporal databases for medicine. Currently, his interests are mainly focused on active database systems, their application to WorkFlow Management Systems (WFMS), temporal databases and the management of temporal aspects in WfMSs and in medical records and information systems.

   Alessandro Redondi

Wired and Wireless Technology, DEIB

Alessandro E. C. Redondi received his Master degree in Computer Engineering in July 2009. Currenty he is a Ph.D. student at the Department of Electronics and Information of the Politecnico di Milano. His research activities are focused on algorithms and protocols for Real Time Localization Systems and Wireless Multimedia Sensor Networks.

   Andrea Masciadri

PhD Fellow – Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering

Andrea Masciadri received his master degree in Computer Science Engineering in Decembre 2015, with a thesis concerning the identification of activity of daily living and behavioral drift analysis of people in indoor environment (title of the thesis: “Unsupervised Methods for Activities of Daily Living Drift Modeling and Recognition” – Collaboration with Anna Trofimova). From other experiences in embedded design, Andrea developed a system for driving people in unknown environment (ARI system) that resulted also in conference publication. After the degree, since March 2016, he worked for Politecnico di Milano as temporary research consultant. Under the leading of Fabio Salice he implemented a prototype of an indoor movement identifier using a net of Grid-EYE infrared array sensors based on Thread protocol. Since November 2016 he is a PhD fellow in Information Technology under the supervision of Fabio Salice. He is also a member of the ATG group, dealing with behavioral analysis, behavior drift analysis and web support for care givers and family matching. His specialties and interest areas are in embedded system design and assistive technologies.

   Stefano Gorla

Researcher – Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering

Stefano Gorla is a research assistant at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB) of Politecnico di Milano. He received his Master Degree in Engineering of Computing Systems from Politecnico di Milano. His research interests include digital data analysis end web application technologies.

   Fabio Veronese

Researcher – Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering

Fabio Veronese received his master degree in Biomedical Engineering in April 2011, with a thesis concerning the treatment chain of Tridimensional Multimodal Magnetic Resonance Imaging to identify cancer in the “head and neck” district. Extending this thesis work he published also an article at EMBC 2012, presenting a novel quantitative technique for cancerous tissues recognition. After the degree, since June 2012, he worked for Politecnico di Milano as Temporary research consultant. Under the leading of Matteo Matteucci he implemented a prototype of P300-based BCI (Brain Computer Interface) for ALS patients, in collaboration with Infosolution SPA. During 2012 he also worked as Research consultant for the “Istituto Tumori” (Cancer Institute) of Milan for advanced processing of MR Images and in a joint collaboration between the “Istituto Tumori” and the Politecnico di Milano in a project related to cancer data classification. Since November 2012 he is a PhD fellow in Information Technology under the supervision of Fabio Salice. He is also a member of the ATG group, dealing with humans localization, data organization and behavior analysis. His specialties and interest areas are in complex, multimensional and biological signals processing and analysis.

   Simone Mangano

Researcher – Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering

Simone Mangano is a research assistant at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering (DEIB) of Politecnico di Milano. He received his M.Sc. in Engineering of Computing Systems from Politecnico di Milano. He worked in the web technologies area for several years, from 2002 to 2007 at IRCCS Mario Negri in Milan. His research interests include system integration and web application technologies.

    Anna Trofimova

Anna Trofimova received her master degree from Politecnico di Milano in Computer Science Engineering in December 2015 and specialist degree from Moscow State Institute of Radio Engineering, Electronics and Automation; her Politecnico thesis (in collaboration with Andrea Masciadri) concerned the identification of activity of daily living and behavioral drift analysis of people in indoor environment. After the degree, since March 2016, she worked for Politecnico di Milano as temporary research consultant. Under the leading of Fabio Salice she implemented a simulator of an indoor movement identifier using a net of Grid-EYE infrared array sensors.

    Hassan Saidinejad

PhD student at Politecnico di Milano, Hassan Saidinejad received his MSc in Computer Engineering from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of Politecnico di Milano (Italy) in 2012 and his BSc in Hardware Engineering from Sharif University of Technology (Iran) in 2008. He is currently a member of Assistive Technology Group (ATG) of Politecnico di Milano where his main focus is on making sense and insight of (person+context) data through data analysis and visualization techniques as a tool for helping independent ageing, as well as user interface and interaction aspects.

   Marzio Glauco Ghezzi

Educational Design
Marzio Glauco Ghezzi has collaborated with METID Centre (Metodi E Tecnologie Innovative per la Didattica, is the University Center dealing with design, development and delivery of e-Learning and e-Collaboration services, at both national and international level) since 1995 in design and development of multimedia applications for distance learning. His involvement in Computer Engineering Degree Online Course, Project for disabled people of Politecnico and NetBA (Net Business Administration) Masters degree, have also led to his responsibility for the production of video streaming and 3D animation services. In 2009 he obtained a Master EPICT – the European Pedagogical ICT Licence in the Pedagogical Integration of Information, media and communication technologies (ICT) in education. Until 2010 he had the main Centre contact for the HSH, Hospital School Home project of MIUR, providing didactics support in national hospitals, and he was the manager of the study workshop on the application of Didactics Technologies [TNT] for METID on the Como campus. Since 2001 he works at the RSD Sim-patia as ICT consultant for the center aids for persons with locomotor discomfort.