Academic Profile

Biography

I am currently a Full Professor in Biomedical/Medical Engineering/Technology at the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Stavanger, Norway, working on Machine Learning, Human Activity Recognition (HAR), Active and Assisted Living (AAL), Internet of Medical Things (IoMT), and AI-driven sensor systems for proactive healthcare. I obtained my Ph.D. in Computer Science in May 2020 under the supervision of Prof. Graziano Pravadelli, with a thesis on "An IoT-based Virtual Coaching System for Assisting Activities of Daily Life".

I am a co-founder of the IoT for Care (IoT4Care) research group at the University of Verona, and a member of the Biomedical Data Analysis Lab (BMDLab) and the Stavanger AI Lab (SAIL) at UiS.

I serve as Associate Editor of the IEEE Sensors Journal and am part of the organizing and review committee for various international journals and conferences.

June 2024
Visiting Professor
Dept. Engineering for Innovation Medicine
University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Funded by FSE project UNISCO. Host: Prof. Graziano Pravadelli.
January 2024
Visiting Professor
Dept. Engineering for Innovation Medicine
University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Funded by the Internationalization program of the University of Verona. Host: Prof. Graziano Pravadelli.
January 2023
AWS Fellowship
Dept. Computer Science and Information Systems
University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Funded by the AWS fellowship program. Host: Prof. Tiziana Margaria.
October 2021
Funded Visiting Post-Doc
Faculty of Computer Science
TU Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
Funded by the internationalization program of TUC (€12,000). Host: Jun. Prof. Dr. Philipp Kindt.
August 2019
Visiting Ph.D. Student
Dept. Biomedical Engineering (BME)
University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
Funded by University of Verona internationalization program (€6,000). Supervisor: Prof. Parisa Rashidi, director of the Intelligent Health Lab (i-Heal).
2025

SpareBank 1 Sør-Norge Innovation Award National

Stavanger, Norway

2019

Ph.D. Thesis Proposal Finalist — ACM Student Research Competition at CODES+ISSS International

New York, USA

2018

ICT for Families (IFs) — Italian Semifinals, Global Social Venture Competition (GSVC) International

Milan, Italy

2019

BipBip — First Place, European Social Fund (ESF) – Veneto Region National

Padua, Italy

2017

ICT for Families — Best Social Innovation Project in Italy, National Innovation Award (PNI) National

Naples, Italy

2017

ADA — Finalist, Veneto Start-Cup National

Verona, Italy

June 2025
Professor in Biomedical/Medical Engineering/Technology
Dept. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
Biomedical/Medical Engineering/Technology, HAR, AAL, IoMT
October 2022
Associate Professor in Biomedical/Medical Engineering/Technology
Dept. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
Biomedical/Medical Engineering/Technology, HAR, Ambient Intelligence, AAL, IoMT
January 2023
AWS Fellow
Dept. Computer Science and Information Systems
University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Immersive Software Engineering study program
May 2020
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Dept. Computer Science
University of Verona, Verona, Italy
HAR, Ambient Intelligence, AAL, IoMT
October 2021
Visiting Research Fellow
Faculty of Computer Science
TU Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
HAR based on radio signal propagation pattern
March 2025
Ph.D. Supervisory Qualification Program
100 hours: 30h sessions/lectures, 70h compulsory work
University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
October 2022
Basic Course in Higher Education Pedagogies
150 hours: 75h sessions/lectures, 75h compulsory work
University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway
October 2016
Ph.D. in Computer Science
"An IoT-based Virtual Coaching System for Assisting Activities of Daily Life" · Supervisor: Prof. Graziano Pravadelli
University of Verona, Verona, Italy
October 2013
M.Sc. in Computer Science and Engineering
"Automatic generation of self-adaptive TLM protocols from PSL assertions" · Supervisor: Prof. Graziano Pravadelli
Grade: 110/110 cum laude
University of Verona, Verona, Italy
October 2010
B.Sc. in Computer Science
"Graphical User Interface for TestBench Specification Language (TSL) Generators" · Supervisor: Prof. Graziano Pravadelli
Grade: 95/110
University of Verona, Verona, Italy
Albanian
Native/Bilingual
Italian
Native/Bilingual
English
Professional Proficiency (C2)
Spanish
Limited Working Proficiency (B2)
Norwegian
Limited Proficiency (A1)