{"id":1732,"date":"2024-01-22T20:10:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-22T19:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/medsp\/?page_id=1732"},"modified":"2026-01-31T19:59:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T18:59:13","slug":"jessica-vacca","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/medsp\/jessica-vacca\/","title":{"rendered":"Jessica Vacca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1734 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/medsp\/files\/2024\/01\/jessi2-300x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/medsp\/files\/2024\/01\/jessi2-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/medsp\/files\/2024\/01\/jessi2-1024x1024.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/medsp\/files\/2024\/01\/jessi2-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/medsp\/files\/2024\/01\/jessi2-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/medsp\/files\/2024\/01\/jessi2-250x250.png 250w, https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/medsp\/files\/2024\/01\/jessi2-80x80.png 80w, https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/medsp\/files\/2024\/01\/jessi2-320x320.png 320w, https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/medsp\/files\/2024\/01\/jessi2.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Ph.D. student in Bioengineering and Robotics \u2013 University of Genoa<br \/>\nM.Sc. in Bioengineering (Sensors and Biomedical Instrumentation) \u2013 University of Pavia<br \/>\nB.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering \u2013 University of Cagliari<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scopus.com\/authid\/detail.uri?authorId=59202709500\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Scientific Publications<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\nORCID: <a href=\"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0009-4266-1767\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0009-4266-1767<\/a><br \/>\nE-mail: jessica.vacca@unica.it<\/p>\n<p><strong>Main research fields<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Biomedical signal processing, machine learning techniques, and computational models mainly focused on movement monitoring and experimental setups for neurorehabilitation.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Something about me&#8230;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>My Master&#8217;s degree in Bioengineering and my recent internship experience at KU Leuven in Belgium have enriched my knowledge in the field of biomedical signal processing and machine learning. Motivated by my great passion for bioengineering, I chose to undertake a research fellowship, which is currently ongoing, to further expand my skills and contribute to research in this challenging field.<br \/>\nI&#8217;m currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Bioengineering and Robotics working on collaborative neuromotor and cognitive rehabilitation, one of the two use cases of the MYRTUS EU project, which sponsored my scholarship.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Research projects<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>EU Project \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/myrtus-project.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>MYRTUS<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u2013\u00a0<strong>M<\/strong>ulti-layer 360\u00b0 d<strong>Y<\/strong>namic orchestrion and interope<strong>R<\/strong>able design environmen<strong>T<\/strong>\u00a0for compute-contin<strong>U<\/strong>um\u00a0<strong>S<\/strong>ystems\u201d;<\/li>\n<li>PNRR MUR Project &#8220;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/stopme-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">STOPme<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; Supporting Termination Of stereotyPies in patients with Rett syndroME by advanced ambient intelligence&#8221; a cascade PNRR project, realized in the framework of the project &#8220;RAISE \u2013 Robotics and AI for Socio-economic Empowerment&#8221;, funded by the EU \u2013 Next Generation EU RAISE \u2013 on funds by PNRR MUR \u2013 M4C2 Investimento 1.5<\/li>\n<li>PRIN 2022 Project &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/visionary-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>VISIONARY<\/strong><\/a> \u2013 Advanced VISual feedback for neurorehabilitatION systems based on virtuAl RealitY&#8221;;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ph.D. student in Bioengineering and Robotics \u2013 University of Genoa M.Sc. in Bioengineering (Sensors and Biomedical Instrumentation) \u2013 University of Pavia B.Sc. in Biomedical Engineering \u2013 University of Cagliari Scientific&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1910,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1732","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/medsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/medsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/medsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/medsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1910"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/medsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/medsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2139,"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/medsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1732\/revisions\/2139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.unica.it\/medsp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}