Logo of Politecnico di Torino featuring a building illustration, a laurel wreath, a profile of a warrior helmet, and the establishment year 1859, with the institution's name in Italian.

Politecnico di Torino is the first engineering school in Italy, founded on the wave of renewal of technical-scientific culture that saw the birth of Europe's most prestigious polytechnics in the mid 19th century. Founded in 1859 as the Scuola di Applicazione per gli Ingegneri, it became the Regio Politecnico di Torino in 1906. The Politecnico di Torino has been training professionals in the fields of engineering, architecture, design and territorial planning for over 160 years - with rigour, integrity and according to high quality standards.

A long journey in continuous evolution, which has accredited the University among the best European technical universities for training and research, with 38,700 male and female students and an academic body of approximately 1,000 lecturers.

In a world scenario that is undergoing profound change, as a result of the disruptive effects of phenomena such as globalisation, climate change, an ageing population and the emergence of new and increasingly pervasive technologies, the University must evolve in order to continue to have an impact on a rapidly changing society. The Politecnico, therefore proposes itself as a “platform” university, permeable, inclusive, open to the world of professions and industry, and with a key role in the processes of innovation and lifelong learning, in order to increasingly become a driving force behind the sustainable development of society.

Team members

  • Luca Mesin received the Graduate degree in electronics engineering, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in applied mathematics from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2003. He is currently an Associate Professor in biomedical engineering and a Supervisor of the Mathematical Biology and Physiology Group, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino. His current research interests include biomedical image and signal processing, and mathematical modelling.

  • Hossein Ahmadi received the B.S. degree in electronics engineering from Kurdistan University,Sanandaj, Iran, in 2010, and the M.S. degree in telecommunications engineering from theAmirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 2016. He is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree with the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, specializing in electrical, electronics, and communications engineering. His research interests include brain-to-brain communication, semantic communication, and signal processing.

  • Matteo Raggi received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in biomedical engineering from Politecnico di Torino, in 2019 and 2022, respectively, where he is currently pursuing the Ph.D. degree in electrical, electronics and communications engineering with the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications. His research interests include biomedical signal processing and wearable devices.

  • Danilo Demarchi is Full Professor at the Polytechnic University of Turin, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, with the positions of ‘Introduction to MEMS & BioMEMS’ for Biomedical and Electronic Engineering, of ‘Design of Microsystems’ for Electronic Engineering and Nanotechnologies for ICT, of ‘Bio-NanoElectronics’ for the Doctoral School in Electronics and Telecommunications and of ‘Electronics’ for the Degree Course in Biomedical Engineering. Visiting Professor at EPFL Lausanne (2019) and Tel Aviv University (2018-2021). Visiting Scientist (2018) at MIT and Harvard Medical School for the project SISTER (Smart electronic IoT SysTEms for Rehabilitation sciences). Author and co-author of 5 patents and more than 300 scientific publications in international journals and peer-reviewed conference proceedings. He directs the MiNES (Micro&Nano Electronic Systems) Laboratory of the Politecnico di Torino and coordinates the Microelectronics Group of the Italian Institute of Technology at the Politecnico diTorino (IIT@DET). Member of IEEE Sensors Council, Member of BioCAS Technical Committee, Associate Editor of IEEE Sensors Journal, IEEE Open Journal on Engineering in Medicine and Biology (OJ-EMB) and Springer-Nature Journal BioNanoScience. Senior Member of the IEEE. General Chair of the IEEE BioCAS (Biomedical Circuits and Systems) conference in 2017 and founder of the IEEE FoodCAS (Circuits and Systems for the Food Chain) Workshop. TPC Co-Chair of the IEEE ICECS 2019, IEEE BioCAS 2021, IEEE BioCAS 2022 and IEEE FoodCAS 2017 and 2020 conferences.

  • Paolo Motto Ros is an Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Torino (Torino, Italy). He received the M.Sc. and the Ph.D. degrees in electronic engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy, in 2005 and 2009, respectively. From 2009 to 2012 he was with Neuronica Laboratory (Department of Electronics, Politecnico di Torino) as post-doctoral researcher, working on assistive technologies, computer vision and learning machines projects (jointly with, 2006-2013, Istituto Nazionale FisicaNucleare, INFN, Italy). From 2012 to 2019 he was with Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Center for Space Human Robotics, CSHR, Torino, Italy, and, since 2016, Electronic Design Laboratory, EDL, Genova, Italy) as senior (since 2014) post-doctoral researcher, working on bio-inspired electronics for biomedical and humanoid robotic applications. He joined the Politecnico di Torino, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, in 2019, as Senior Post-Doctoral Researcher and Adjunct Professor (since 2017). He is an IEEE member since 2016, and member of the Circuits And Systems (CAS) society; he was member of the organizing committee of the IEEE ICECS 2019 conference, the FoodCAS Satellite Event at the IEEE ISCAS2021 conference, and the IEEE CAFE 2023 conference; review committee member of IEEE BioCAS 2021-2023, organizer of a special session at IEEE MeMeA2021, program committee member of IEEE LASCAS2022/2023 and WAFE 2023 satellite workshop. He was guest editor of MDPI Sensors (2019-2022) and guest associate editor of Frontiers in Neurorobotics (2020-2021). He is Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems (since 2023) and IEEE Transactions on AgriFood Electronics (since 2022). He is author and co-author of more than 80 international scientific publications; current research interests include: event-driven digital integrated circuits, architectures, and systems; low-power smart sensor networks; bio-inspired electronics; wearable systems for human motion and ExG applications; circuits and systems for wireless implantable biomedical devices; electronics for agrifood.

  • Nicolò Landra received both his bachelor and master’s degrees in biomedical engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Turin, Italy, in 2019 and 2021, respectively. Since November 2022, he is a PhD student at Politecnico di Torino, Department of Electronics and Telecommunications. He is a member of the eLiONS (formerly MiNES) Laboratory, and his interests include the design and development of wearable electronic systems for biomedical applications, mainly focusing on the rehabilitation field.

  • Chiara Antonini received her M.Sc. degree in Biomedical Engineering, with a specialization in Biomedical Instrumentation, from Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2024. She was a visiting research student at the University of South-Eastern Norway, where she contributed to NerveRepack, a European research project focused on neural interfaces for prosthetic control, working on microelectrode fabrication and cleanroom processes. She is currently a research fellow at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications, Politecnico di Torino, where her work focuses on embedded systems, real-time data acquisition, and low- power wireless communication for biomedical applications. Her research interests include bio-inspired electronics, flexible substrates, and wearable technologies for rehabilitation.