L. Cacopardo, N. Guazzelli, A. Ahluwalia: “Characterising and engineering biomimetic materials for vis-coelastic mechanotransduction studies", Tissue Engineering Part B: Reviews, September 2021, https://doi.org/10.1089/ten.TEB.2021.0151

F. Gagliardi, A. Ria, G. Manfredini, P. Bruschi, M. Piotto: "A 3-decade-frequency-range Sinewave Synthesizer with Analog Piecewise-linear Interpolation", 2022 17th Conference on PhD Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME)

In this work, we present a novel approach for the on-chip synthesis of sinusoidal signals for low-size and low power applications. The original aspect of the proposed solution is the ability to generate linearly interpolated signals by means of analog...

F. Gagliardi, A. Ria, G. Manfredini, M. Piotto, P. Bruschi: "A Triode-Compensated CMOS Bandgap Core for Sub-250 mV Supply Voltages", 2022 17th Conference on Ph.D. Research in Microelectronics and Electronics (PRIME), Villasimius, Italy, 12-15/06/2022

This paper presents a simple and original CMOS, sub-threshold bandgap voltage reference capable of operating with extremely reduced supply voltage values. The circuit capability is demonstrated by means of accurate electrical simulations performed on a...

F. Gagliardi, G. Manfredini, A. Ria, M. Piotto, P. Bruschi: "Low-Phase-Noise CMOS Relaxation Oscillators for On-Chip Timing of IoT Sensing Platforms", Electronics, June 2022, 11, 1794

The design of low-phase-noise fully integrated frequency references is often a critical aspect in the development of low-cost integrated circuits for communication interfaces, sensing platforms, and biomedical applications. This work first discusses...

Di Pasquo, A.; Monaco, E.; Ghittori, N.; Nani, C.; Fanucci, L. A Track-and-Hold Circuit with Tunable Non-Linearity and a Calibration Loop for PAM-8 SerDes Receivers. Electronics 2022

A. di Pasquo, E. Monaco, C. Nani and L. Fanucci, "Delay-lines jitter modeling and efficiency analysis in FinFET technology," 2021 28th IEEE International Conference on Electronics, Circuits, and Systems (ICECS), 2021

Di Rienzo, R., Verani, A., Baronti, F., Roncella, R., Saletti, R. Modular Battery Emulator for Devel-opment and Functional Testing of Battery Management Systems: The Cell Emulator. Electronics 2022, 11, 1215

Battery Management Systems are fundamental components of the present battery generation. The development and characterization phases of a BMS often require an emulator of the battery cells with which the Battery Management System functions can be...

M. Gambini, T. Fagni, F. Falchi, M. Tesconi: "On pushing DeepFake Tweet Detection capabilities to the limits", WebSci '22: 14th ACM Web Science Conference 2022, June 2022

The recent advances in natural language generation provide an additional tool to manipulate public opinion on social media. Even though there has not been any report of malicious exploit of the newest generative techniques so far, disturbing human-like...

Panicacci, S. et al. (2022). Leveraging from the SatNav E@syCare Experience in COVID-19 Pandemic Towards an Extensive Use of Telemedicine in Chronic Patients Long-Term Care Model

The current COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the use of digital technologies, in all sectors and in particular in healthcare. In this scenario, in fact, telemedicine systems have been adopted to remotely monitor and manage infected patients or...

M. Donati, M. Olivelli, R. Giovannini and L. Fanucci, "RT-PROFASY: Enhancing the Well-being, Safety and Productivity of Workers by Exploiting Wearable Sensors and Artificial Intelligence,"2022 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for Industry 4.0

This paper presents the concept and the system architecture of the ICT platform developed in the framework of the RT-PROFASY project, which aims to monitor the well-being of workers by means of wearable sensors in order to estimate in real-time their...

M. Olivelli, M. Donati, B. Alessio and L. Fanucci, "Enabling the E@syCare Telemedicine Platform with Push Notification with End-to-end Acknowledgment," 2022 IEEE PerCom Workshops

Telemedicine is becoming increasingly important in recent years, especially in chronic diseases treatment. Thanks to these platforms, it is possible to assist patients remotely, being continuously monitored according to personalized care plans as if...

S. Panicacci, A. Ruiu, A. Lubrano, M. Donati, M. Olivelli and L. Fanucci, "SatNav E@syCare Telemedicine Platform in the Management of Covid-19 Patients: Field Trial Results," 2022 IEEE PerCom Workshops

In the framework of the Covid-19 pandemic, digital technology has played a key role in the healthcare sector, becoming essential for improving the quality of care and well-being of individuals and populations. In this scenario, telemedicine platforms...

Marco Pettorali, Francesca Righetti and Carlo Vallati, “Mobile6TiSCH: a Simulator for 6TiSCH-based Industrial IoT Networks with Mobile Nodes”, The 18th International Conference on Mobility, Sensing and Networking (MSN 2022)

Abstract: The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has defined the 6TiSCH architecture to enable the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). While many industrial applications involve mobile devices (e.g., mobile robots or wearable devices carried by...

N. Messina, D.A. Coccomini, A. Esuli, F. Falchi: “Transformer-Based Multi-modal Proposal and Re-Rank for Wikipedia Image-Caption Matching”, Wikipedia and Multi-Modal & Multi-Lingual Research

With the increased accessibility of web and online encyclopedias, the amount of data to manage is constantly increasing. In Wikipedia, for example, there are millions of pages written in multiple languages. These pages contain images that often lack...

Guarnera, L.; Giudice, O.; Guarnera, F.; Ortis, A.; Puglisi, G.; Paratore, A.; Bui, L.M.Q.; Fontani, M.; Coccomini, D.A.; Caldelli, R.; Falchi, F.; Gennaro, C.; Messina, N.; Amato, G. et al. The Face Deepfake Detection Challenge, J. of Imaging

Multimedia data manipulation and forgery has never been easier than today, thanks to the power of Artificial Intelligence (AI). AI-generated fake content, commonly called Deepfakes, have been raising new issues and concerns, but also new challenges for...

E. Iadanza, R. Fabbri, F. Goretti, G. Nardo, E. Niccolai, C. Bendotti, A. Amedei ,“Machine learning for analysis of gene expression data in fast-and slow-progressing amyotrophic lateral sclerosis murine models”, Biocybernetics and Biomedical Engineer

L. Frassineti, C. Manfredi, D. Ermini, R. Fabbri, B. Olmi, A. Lanatà: “Analysis of Brain-Heart Interactions in newborns with and without seizures using the Convergent Cross Mapping approach”, 44th Annual Interna-tional Conference of the IEEE Engineer

R. Fabbri, S. Rizzo, E. Botte, A. Ahluwalia, C. Magliaro: “A novel computational platform for mimicking neural network activity in advanced in vitro neural constructs”, Forum of Federation of European Neuroscience Soci-eties (FENS), July 2022

L. Leonardi, G. Lettieri, P. Perazzo, S. Saponara: "On the Hardware-Software Integration in Cryptographic Accelerators for Industrial IoT". Applied Sciences 2022

Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) applies IoT technologies on industrial automation systems with the aims of providing remote sensing, remote control, self-organization and self-maintenance. Since IIoT systems often constitute a critical...

M. Mazza, S. Cresci, M. Avvenuti, W. Quattrociocchi, and M. Tesconi, “RTbust: Exploiting temporal patterns for botnet detection on twitter,” in Proceedings of the 10th ACM Conference on Web Science, 2019

Within OSNs, many of our supposedly online friends may instead be fake accounts called social bots, part of large groups that purposely re-share targeted content. Here, we study retweeting behaviors on Twitter, with the ultimate goal of detecting...