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Marco Parvis
Marco Parvis was born in Italy in 1958. He graduated with honors in Electrical Engineering in 1982 at the Polytechnic of Turin. In 1987 he obtained the title of PhD in Metrology: Science and Technique of Measurements.
He is now full professor in the scientific / disciplinary sector ING-INF 07 – 09E4 (formerly K10X) Electrical and Electronic Measurements at the Department of Electronics and Telecommunications of the Polytechnic of Turin. He was President of the Information sector of the II Faculty of Engineering based in Vercelli where he also held the role of Dean from 2008 until the Faculty’s decommissioning.
He is a Fellow Member of the IEEE Society on Instrumentation and Measurement where he also holds the position of chair of the technical committee 25 measures in the medical field. Since 2017 he is an IEEE Officer as Vice President Member Services of the IEEE System Council.Marco Parvis is the founder of the Symposium Medical Measurements and Applications (MeMeA), which has been held annually since 2006 with 100-150 participants. In 2016 Marco Parvis was selected as General Chair of the 2017 edition of the Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC 2017), which was held at the Politecnico di Torino with about 350 works presented.
His main fields of interest are intelligent instrumentation, the applications of signal processing to measurements and measurements in the medical and chemical fields.
Currently, as part of an interdepartmental collaboration with the Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering, he is mainly involved in the development of sensors for chemical and physical quantities based on surface modification processes through plasma sputtering. He is the author of more than 100 publications.
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Sabrina Grassini
Sabrina Grassini received her M.S. degree in Chemistry from the University of Torino, Italy, in 1999, and the Ph.D. degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Politecnico di Torino, Italy, in 2004. She joined the Politecnico di Torino in 2007, where she is currently Associate Professor of Applied Physical Chemistry with the Department of Applied Science and Technology. Her research activities, which led to the publication of more than 180 papers in national and international journals and in the proceedings of international conferences, have been developed in the fields of chemical/physical fundamentals of plasma processes, study of corrosion mechanisms of metals and alloys, conservation of Cultural Heritage, sensors and biomedical measurements. She is Secretary of the Working Party 21 on Corrosion of Archaeological and Historical Artifacts of the European Federation of Corrosion and member of the Steering Committee of the IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurement and Applications (MeMeA) since 2013. She is a member of the PhD Advisory Board in Metrology at Politecnico di Torino and member of the IEEE TC-25 on Medical and Biomedical Measurements and TC-17 on Materials in Measurements. She was Technical Program Chair of IEEE-MeMeA in 2014, General Chair of IEEE-MeMeA in 2015 and General Chair of the International Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference (I2MTC2017).
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Mohanasankar Sivaprakasam
I am currently Associate Professor in Department of Electrical Engineering at IIT Madras and I head the Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC), a joint initiative of IIT Madras and Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Ministry of Science and Technology.
Education
Ph.D. – Electrical Engineering, University of California at Santa Cruz, U.S. 2006
M.S. – Electrical Engineering, North Carolina State University, U.S., 2003
B.Tech – Instrumentation Engineering, Anna University, India, 2001
Research Interests
Medical devices and diagnostics, biomedical instrumentation, affordable healthcare technologies,
healthcare delivery models for resource constrained settings
Awards
Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE) Young Engineer Award, 2015
IITM’s Institute R&D Award (Junior level), 2015
Career Summary
- 8 years of graduate and post-doc R&D experience involving several biomedical devices for restoring biological functionality in diseases and disabilities such as blindness and paralysis. These projects were in collaboration with leading experts in ophthalmology, neurophysiology, electrophysiology, and MEMS systems, with technology from these projects transferred to real world systems including clinical implants in humans.
- Returned to India with goal of setting up interdisciplinary R&D program for developing affordable medical technologies in the country to address unmet healthcare needs.
Since 2009, successfully built an ecosystem of technologists, clinicians and industry anchored at IIT Madras, culminating in setting up of Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre (HTIC) in 2011 as joint initiative of IITM and DBT. - Since 2011, HTIC has grown into a unique and leading med-tech innovation ecosystem in the country bringing together more than 20 medical institutions, industry, government agencies, collaborating with HTIC in developing affordable healthcare technologies for unmet clinical needs. Its 30+ member team of engineers and researchers is developing technologies in areas of cardiovascular, ultrasound, neonatal, oncology, intensive care, ophthalmology, diagnostics, are under development in collaboration with leading organizations, some of which have already reached the field through partnerships. A video summary of HTIC is available at https://htic.iitm.ac.in/?q=hticvideo.
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Lorenzo Scalise
Lorenzo Scalise was born in Siena, Italy, in 1971. He received the Laurea degree in 1996 from the Università degli Studi di Ancona in Electronic Engineering and the title of Ph.D. degree in Measurement Technique at the Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy, in 1999. From January 1999 to October 1999 he was a visiting researcher at the Bio-optics research group of the Faculty of the Applied Physics of the Universiteit Twente, The Netherlands, where he has developed part of his PhD thesis entitled “Progetto e sviluppo di un sensore ottico a retro-iniezione per la misura di velocità : Sviluppo di un modello teorico ed applicazione per la misura intra-vascolare del flusso sanguigno“. Since 2000, he is technician at the Department of Industrial Engineering and Mathematical Sciences (DIISM, former the Dipartimento di Meccanica) of the Università Politecnica delle Marche, Italy.
He is member of: IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers), SPIE (International Society for Optics and Photonics), SEM (Society of Experimental Mechanics) and IALM (International Academy of Laser Medicine and Surgery).
