A New Frontier for Wireless Networks:
Intra-body Communication and Sensing for Biomedical Applications
TUESDAY, JULY 25TH, 2023
During this seminar, Anna Vizziello, from the University of Pavia, discusses the technologies driving innovation in body area networks to face the specific challenges of acquiring and transmitting physiological biomedical signals.
About the Seminar
Intra-body communication is a novel key research area that will transform the next generation of healthcare technologies through in situ testing of physiological conditions, personalized medicine, and proactive and targeted drug delivery.
Intra-body networking is the paradigm that interconnects the implants and allows them to transmit measurements to an external center for real-time processing and monitoring and to send commands to embedded actuators.
In this seminar, the attendees learned the following:
- Technologies driving innovation in body area networks (BANs) to address specific challenges in acquiring and transmitting physiological biomedical signals.
- Non-conventional technologies for in-body and on-body communications, enabling seamless connectivity within BANs.
- Portable solutions for acquiring physiological signals, including technologies like Electrocardiography (ECG), testbeds, and applications for efficient data collection and analysis within BANs.
About the Speaker
Anna Vizziello is an Assistant Professor at the University of Pavia, Italy, in the Telecommunications and Remote Sensing Laboratory. From 2007 to 2009, she collaborated with European Centre for Training and Research in Earthquake Engineering (EUCENTRE), working in the Telecommunications and Remote Sensing group.
Ana is a distinguished expert, having been selected by the European Commission, where she has been actively collaborating as a referee for the peer evaluation process of various project proposals since 2013.
Throughout her career, Ana has undertaken significant roles as a visiting researcher at esteemed universities. She spent summers in both 2023 and 2016, as well as the winter of 2011, conducting research at Northeastern University in Boston, Massachusetts. From 2009 to 2010, she worked at the Broadband Wireless Networking Lab at the prestigious Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, GA. Additionally, during the summers of 2009 and 2010, Ana was actively involved in research at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Barcelona, Spain.
Ana’s exceptional contributions to the field of networking and communications earned her a well-deserved spot on the 2018 list of “N2Women: Rising Stars in Computer Networking and Communications,” an honor supported by the IEEE Communication Society. Furthermore, her outstanding research efforts led to her co-receiving the esteemed ACM NanoCom’21 best-paper award.
She has been invited as a prominent figure in her domain to deliver tutorials at various conferences, such as IEEE MELECON 2020, IEEE LATINCOM 2020, IEEE CCNC 2021, and EWSN 2021, where she shared her expertise in the area of intra-body networks.
Her research interests are in wireless communications for extreme environments, from satellite communications to wearable and implantable sensor networks.