Lucia Schiatti

Lucia Schiatti (M.Sc. 2013, Ph.D. 2018) graduated in Mechatronic Engineering at the University of Trento, and got a Ph.D. degree in Bioengineering and Robotics from the University of Genoa and the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia on February 2018. Her expertise includes time series analysis of physiological data, measures of brain connectivity, and brain (EEG) and gaze processing for the development of assistive communication interfaces. Starting from December 2018, she joined the IIT Unit for Unit for Visually Impaired People (U-VIP), led by Dr. Monica Gori, where she worked as a postdoc researcher on the topic of multisensory development and visual rehabilitation of visually impaired children, within the framework of the joint-lab IIT-Mondino. She was awarded in 2020 with a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) Global Individual Fellowship under the Horizon 2020 Program with the project TIRESIA (896415) “Technology for visual Impairments Rehabilitation on Early-life through Social Information Augmentation”, developed in the framework of a collaboration between IIT U-VIP and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Starting from 2021, she spent 2 years as a postdoc fellow at the MIT CSAIL Infolab, under the supervision of Dr. Boris Katz and Dr. Andrei Barbu, and she is currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Researcher at the IIT U-VIP.