Our work on Natural Language Processing of Clinical Notes, has been cited in Forbes.
Kick-off meeting of mental health research hub project, funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC), involving the NHS, University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, and several other organisations. This is one of five UK mental health research hubs, researching borderline personality disorder over the next 5 years.
I am co-leading two work packages, on wearable devices as well as predictive modelling based on clinical and behavioural data.
My talk on synthetic clinical data for the Alan Turing Institute's Clinical AI group is now available on youtube.
I am among the World’s top 2% scientists based on Scopus data, published by Elsevier (doi:10.17632/btchxktzyw.6)
Kick-off meeting of a new project to investigate outcomes of pregnant women with pre-existing heart disease. This is the first England-wide study, funded by British Heart Foundation, led by University of Cambridge, involving Imperial College London, University of Manchester, University of Bristol and University of Sheffield.
Our work on predicting occupational stress from the stress level of colleagues, the stress contagion, was picked up by Spain's elDiario and COPE radio.
Best paper award at NeurIPS 2022 workshop on Synthetic Data for Machine Learning! We devised a method to generate synthetic tabular clinical data for underrepresented groups to mitigate health data poverty. Paper in arXiv:2210.13958
I am an invited speaker at the Mayo Clinic's Medical Grand Rounds. I will be talking about our work on delirium prediction in critical care.
I am an invited speaker at the congress of Italian Society for the Study of Arteriosclerosis (Società Italiana per lo Studio dell'Aterosclerosi - SISA), where I will be talking about the opportunities and challenges created by Artificial Intelligence.
I am inivited to talk about Artificial Intelligence and Ethics in clinical decision making, at the Faculty of Law, University of Trento.
I am on the Editorial Board of BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making journal.
I am an invited scientific reviewer for Future and Emerging Technologies (FET Open), as part of European Commission's Horizon 2020 programme.
I am an invited speaker at the 28th National Congress of Palliative Care (SICP 2021), organized by the Italian Society of Palliative Care (Società Italiana di Cure Palliative). I will be talking about the potential of machine learning in clinical decision making in general with a focus on patients' survival prediction. Event photos https://photos.app.goo.gl/EecVTAzVC8J5dHzX7
My seminar titled "Predicting deterioration of critically ill patients", as part of Horizon 2020 WideHealth project can be found in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcDPTjA3Nu4
I am editing a Special Issue on "Electronic Health Record Data Analytics and Knowledge Discovery" in the Frontiers of Data Mining and Management Journal, together with Prof. Tru Cao and Prof. Hulin Wu from University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, USA.
I am an Associate Editor for Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Journal (published by Frontiers in Computer Science) led by Prof. Paul Lukowicz (German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence - DFKI) and Prof. Kristof Van Laerhoven (University of Siegen, Germany).
Kick-off meeting of a new project, NeuroArt P3 - Artificial intelligence of imaging, clinical and neurological data for predictive, preventive and personalized (P3) medicine funded by the Italian Ministry of Health (Ministero della Salute). The project is led by San Martino Hospital (Genova) and includes some of the major Italian hospitals such as San Raffaele (Milano), Gaslini Children's Hospital (Genova), Don Gnocchi (Firenze), APSS (Trento) as well as University of Genova. My interview describing the project can be found in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCJvu6zB9CE. Further information here.
I am an invited speaker at Better Future of Healthy Ageing 2020, a conference organised as part of the Croatian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, held under the auspices of the European Commission. I will present my work on the future prospects of machine learning to induce behaviour change towards healthier lifestyles. See invited speakers.
Students from my group won the first prize in Critical Care datathon competition organised by Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), European Society of Intensive Medicine (ESICM) and sponsored by Google. My interview can be found in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MF_Ja5F0DG4. Press release by the regional government is here.
I am an invited speaker at the 2018 National Congress of Telecaridology (Congresso Nazionale di Telecardiologia), supported by some of the leading medical device companies including Bayer, Boston Scientific, Abott and Medtronic. In my talk, I will describe the potential role of machine learning and BigData to transform and enhance the current practices in cardiology. A short interview can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hPmntlFm6I
I am member of the General Assembly as well as member of the Technical Board of WellCo project, funded by European Commission's Horizon 2020 programme (CORDIS grant id: 769765).
My interview on our work in analysis of behaviour of patients with bipolar disorder can be found here
Invited talk on monitoring patients with bipolar disorder at Institute of Digital Healthcare, University of Warwick, UK. Talk abstract
I am TPC co-chair of Pervasive Health 2013 conference, together with Prof. Paul Lukowicz and Prof. Andrew T. Campbell. The conference will be held during May 5-8 in Venice, Italy.
An EU Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES) proposal in the area of healthcare has been accepted for funding. The UbiHealth project will involve partners from Europe (Italy, Switzerland, UK, Denmark), USA (Georgia and California), Latin America (Mexico and Chile) and Asia (China).
I am co-organising the 6th International Workshop on Ubiquitous Health and Wellness - UbiHealth 2012, part of Pervasive 2012 conference, Newcastle, UK.
Submission deadline: 09 March 2012
I edited a Theme Issue on "Mental health and the impact of ubiquitous technologies" together with Dr. Bert Arnrich, ETH, Zurich and Prof. Jakob Bardram, ITU, Copenhagen. The Theme Issue was published in Springer's Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal
My (now former) student, Andrei Popleteev (Papliatseyeu) has successfully defended his PhD thesis! Co-advised with Dr. Oscar Mayora
I am on the Steering Committee of Pervasive Health conference.
I am co-organising UbiHealth workshop as part of Ubicomp 2010 conference. Submission deadline 15th July 2010. Seehttps://www.create-net.org/ubint/ubihealth
I am Guest Editor of a Special Issue on “Mental Health and the Impact of Ubiquitous Technologies” organised in Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal. Open call for submissions is here. Manuscript submission deadline: 21st January 2011.
I am Guest Editor of Journal of Methods of Information in Medicine, Special Issue on Pervasive Healthcare.
During the autumn of 2009 I will be visiting Prof. Jim Rehg’s lab in Georgia Institute of Technology.
I will be co-chairing the 4th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare 2010. See www.pervasivehealth.org
Submission deadline: December 4th, 2009.
I’m organising a workshop on Technologies to Counter CognitiveDecline (TCCD ‘09). Submission deadline: February 15, 2009.
See https://www.TCCDw.org
The workshop is being held in conjunction with Pervasive Health ‘09conference.
