Gloria Menegaz

Gloria Menegaz,  April 30, 2024
Position
Full Professor
Role
Professore Ordinario
Sections
Ingegneria e Fisica
Academic sector
IBIO-01/A - Bioengineering
Research sector (ERC-2024)
PE6_7 - Artificial intelligence, intelligent systems, natural language processing

PE6_11 - Machine learning, statistical data processing and applications using signal processing (e.g. speech, image, video)

PE6_12 - Scientific computing, simulation and modelling tools

Research sector (ERC)
PE6_7 - Artificial intelligence, intelligent systems, multi agent systems

PE6_11 - Machine learning, statistical data processing and applications using signal processing (e.g. speech, image, video)

PE6_12 - Scientific computing, simulation and modelling tools

Office
Ca' Vignal 2,  Floor 1,  Room 55
Telephone
+39 045 802 7024
E-mail
gloria|menegaz*univr|it <== Replace | with . and * with @ to have the right email address.
Personal web page
https://brainavlab.github.io/

Office Hours

Monday, Hours 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM,  

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Curriculum

Gloria Menegaz è Professore Ordinario di Bioingegneria presso il Dipartimento di Ingegneria per la Medicina di Innovazione dell’Università degli Studi di Verona (Italia), dove dirige il BraiNAVLab. Ha conseguito un dottorato di ricerca in Scienze applicate (EPFL, 2000), una laurea magistrale in Ingegneria elettronica (1993) e un master post-laurea in Information Technology (1995) presso il Politecnico di Milano. Dal 2000 al 2002 è stata prima assistente di ricerca presso il Telecommunications Lab (LCAV) dell’EPFL, diretto dal prof. Martin Vetterli, e in seguito Professore assistente (Maitre Assistante) al Dipartimento di Informatica dell’Università di Friburgo (Svizzera). Nel 2004 ha ottenuto il finanziamento Rita Levi Montalcini (Rientro dei Cervelli) del Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca (MIUR) (D.M. 20/03/2003 n. 501) per integrare il Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell’Informazione dell’Università di Siena (Italia). Nel 2007 ha preso servizio al Dipartimento di Informatica dell’Università di Verona come professoressa associata di Informatica; nel 2017 è diventata professoressa ordinaria di Informatica e nel 2021 professoressa di Bioingegneria (ING-INF/06).

La prof.ssa Menegaz è Senior Member dell’Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, dal 2017; membro dal 1995 al 2017) e membro di IEEE Women in Engineering dal 2000. È membro della Signal Processing Society (SPS), liason representative per IEEE-SPS presso il Comitato direttivo di IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (IEEE-TMI), membro del IEEE-SPS Technical Directions Board e Chair dell’IEEE Bioimaging and Signal Processing (IEEE-SPS-BISP) e membro del comitato tecnico IEEE-SPS Challenges and Data Collection. È inoltre membro dello Special Interests Group on Biomedical Image Analysis Challenges (SIG-BIAC) della Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society (MICCAI), del gruppo ad hoc (AHG) Digital Media Storage using DNA (JPEG-DNA) e osservatrice del DICOM WG-32 (dati di neurofisiologia).

È Associate Editor di IEEE-TMI ed è stata Guest Editor di numeri speciali per diverse riviste, tra cui IEEE-SPM. Dal 2026 è panel member per la selezione di ERC Advanced e ERC Plus Grants. Per molti anni è stata Vice-Chair per FET-REA e MSCA-IF e Independent Expert per numerose istituzioni internazionali, tra cui European Research Council (ERC), European Science Foundation (ESF) e Swedish Knowledge Foundation (SKF), oltre ad altre. È autrice di oltre 160 pubblicazioni su riviste internazionali e atti di conferenze indicizzati in Scopus e di due brevetti; ha inoltre ricoperto i ruoli di chair, area chair e membro di comitati tecnici in numerose conferenze internazionali, soprattutto IEEE.

La prof.ssa Menegaz ha un profilo fortemente interdisciplinare: ha iniziato con una laurea magistrale in Microelettronica, concentrandosi su fisica, microelettronica e ottica, per poi dedicarsi ai temi ICT con il master post-laurea e il dottorato, durante il quale ha lavorato sulla compressione e codifica di dati medici multidimensionali applicati all’imaging medico, contribuendo anche alle attività di standardizzazione JPEG2000. In questo percorso ha affrontato anche temi relativi allo studio e alla modellazione della percezione visiva, con particolare attenzione alla visione dei colori e al contributo al campo della denominazione dei colori nella lingua italiana. Dopo l’ingresso all’Università di Verona, ha orientato la propria attività di ricerca verso il neuroimaging, la connettività cerebrale strutturale, funzionale ed efficace, la modellazione della microstruttura cerebrale, l’imaging genetico e la scoperta di biomarcatori numerici mediante metodi classici e di intelligenza artificiale (apprendimento statistico, automatico e profondo), con particolare attenzione ai metodi spiegabili.

Nel corso della carriera ha ottenuto finanziamenti da diverse istituzioni internazionali per un totale superiore a 3 milioni di euro. Tra i principali si ricordano il programma Rita Levi Montalcini (MIUR, D.M. n. 96 del 23/04/2001, 01/03/2004–28/02/2007), il PRIN-2009 BrainFit: Brain tractography from diffusion imaging for radiotherapeutic and surgical planning, in qualità di PI nazionale, AI4Health: empowering neurosciences with eXplainable AI methods, in qualità di PI e finanziato nell’ambito del D.M. MUR 737/2021, il PRIN 2022 e il progetto INTELLI-MI per la RIR Tech4Life. Ha una rete consolidata di collaborazioni internazionali, tra cui Georgia Tech University (laboratorio TRENDS), INRIA (Francia), EPFL (Svizzera), Queen Mary University (QMU, Londra) e University College London (UCL).

 

Gloria Menegaz is Professor of Bioengineering at the Dept. of Engineering for Innovation Medicine, University of Verona (Italy), where she leads the BraiNAVLab. She holds a PhD in Applied Sciences (EPFL 2000), a MSc in Electronic Engineer (1993) and a post-grade Master's in information technology (1995) (Politecnico di Milano, Italy). From 2000 to 2002 she was first research assistant at the Telecommunications Lab (LCAV) of EPFL, headed by Prof. Martin Vetterli, that she left to join the Computer Science Dept. of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) as an Assistant Professor. In 2004 she was awarded the Rita Levi Montalcini grant (Rientro dei Cervelli) by the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR)(DM 20/03/2003 n. 501) and joined the Dept. of Information Engineering of the University of Siena (Italy) as an Assistant Professor. In 2007 she joined the Dept. of Computer Science of the University of Verona (Italy) as an Associate Professor in Computer Science and became full Professor in Computer Science in 2017 and Professor in Bioengineering (ING-INF/06) in 2021.

Prof. Menegaz is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE, 2017, valued member 1995-2017), and member of the IEEE Woman in Engineering since 2000. She is a member of the Signal Processing Society (SPS), Liason representative of the IEEE-SPS, Chair of the Steering Committee of the IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging (IEEE-TMI), Chair of the IEEE Bioimaging and Signal Processing (IEEE-SPS-BISP), member of the IEEE-SPS Technical Directors Board and Member of the IEEE-SPS Challenges and Data Collection TC. She is also Member of the Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention Society (MICCAI) Special Interest Group on Biomedical Image Analysis Challenges (SIG-BIAC), of the Ad Hoc Group (AHG) on Digital Media Storage using DNA (JPEG-DNA) and Observer for the DICOM WG-32 (Neurophysiology data).  

She is Associate Editor for IEEE-TMI, and has been Guest Editor of special issues for different venues including the IEEE-SPM. She is a panel member for the ERC Advaced Grants and Advaced Grant Plus since 2026. She has been Vice-Chair for the FET-REA and the MSCA-IF for many years and Independent Expert and panel member for many international Institutions including European Research Council (ERC), European Science Fundation (ESF), SKF, Sweden, among others. She authored more than 160 publications in international journals and conference proceedings (Scopus) and two patent and has been chair, area chair and technical committee member of many international conferences, especially of the IEEE. 

Prof. Menegaz holds a highly interdisciplinary profile, starting with a MSc in Microelectronics, focusing on physics, microelectronics and optics, moving to ICT topics with the post-grade MSc and then the PhD, where she has been working on compression and coding of multi-dimensional medical data with application to medical imaging, also contributing to the JPEG2000 standardization activities. During this work she also faced topics related to visual perception investigation and modeling, with emphasis on color vision contributing in the field of color naming in Italian language. After joining the University of Verona, she directed her research activity on neuroimaging, brain connectivity (structural, functional and effective), brain microstructure modeling imaging genetics and numerical biomarker discovery relying on classical and AI (statistical/machine/deep learning) with emphasis on explainable methods.

During her career she has obtained funding from several international institutions for a total of over 3 million euros. Worth mentioning are the Rita Levi Montalcini program (MIUR, D.M. n.96 del 23.04.2001, 01/03/2004-28/02/2007) and the PRIN-2009, BrainFit: Brain tractography from diffusion imaging for radioterapico and surgical planning as the national PI, AI4Health: empowering neurosciences with eXplainable AI methods, PI, funded under the and MUR DM737/2021, the PRIN 2022 and the INTELLI-MI project for the RIR Tech4Life. She has a rich network of international collaborations including Georgia Tech University (TRENDS lab), INRIA (France), EPFL (Switzerland), Queen Mary University (QMU, London) and University College London (UCL).

 

 

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Course Name Total credits Online Teacher credits Modules offered by this teacher
PhD in Intelligent Systems Engineering Explainable AI models: state of the art, promises and challenges (2026/2027)   3    3 
Bachelor's degree in Human Centered Medical System Engineering Acquisition and analysis of biomedical images (2025/2026)   6  eLearning 2  PARTE I (Teoria)
Bachelor's degree in Bioinformatics Pattern recognition and Signal and image Processing in Bioinformatics (2025/2026)   12  eLearning 4  SEGNALI E IMMAGINI I (Teoria)
2  SEGNALI E IMMAGINI I (Laboratorio)
Master's degree in Artificial intelligence Visual Intelligence (2025/2026)   6  eLearning 6 
PhD in Intelligent Systems Engineering Fixed Points, Feedback, and Adaptive Computation (2025/2026)   3  eLearning 3 
Bachelor's degree in Human Centered Medical System Engineering Acquisition and analysis of biomedical images (2024/2025)   6  eLearning 2  PARTE I (Teoria)
PhD in Intelligent Systems Engineering Modelli di Intelligenza Artificiale Spiegabile: stato dell'arte, promesse e sfide (2024/2025)   2.5  eLearning 2.5 
Bachelor's degree in Bioinformatics Pattern recognition and Signal and image Processing in Bioinformatics (2024/2025)   12  eLearning 4  SEGNALI E IMMAGINI I (Teoria)
2  SEGNALI E IMMAGINI I (Laboratorio)
Master's degree in Artificial intelligence Visual Intelligence (2024/2025)   6  eLearning 6 
Bachelor's degree in Human Centered Medical System Engineering Acquisition and analysis of biomedical images (2023/2024)   6  eLearning 1  PARTE I (Teoria)
Master's degree in Artificial intelligence Explainable AI (2023/2024)   6  eLearning 3 
Bachelor's degree in Bioinformatics Pattern recognition and Signal and image Processing in Bioinformatics (2023/2024)   12  eLearning 4  SEGNALI E IMMAGINI I (Teoria)
2  SEGNALI E IMMAGINI I (Laboratorio)
Master's degree in Artificial intelligence Visual Intelligence (2023/2024)   6  eLearning 6 
PhD in Computer Science AI and explainable models (2023/2024)   5  eLearning 1.25 
Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering Federated learning from zero to hero (2022/2023)   2  eLearning 2 
Master's degree in Artificial intelligence HCI – Intelligent Interfaces (2022/2023)   6  eLearning 2  (Advanced Interaction)
Bachelor's degree in Bioinformatics Pattern recognition and Signal and image Processing in Bioinformatics (2022/2023)   12  eLearning 4  SEGNALI E IMMAGINI I (Teoria)
2  SEGNALI E IMMAGINI I (Laboratorio)
Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering Visual intelligence (2022/2023)   6  eLearning 1  (Laboratorio)
5  (Teoria)
Master's degree in Medical Bioinformatics Data Analysis for Biomedical Sciences (2021/2022)   2  eLearning 2 
Master's degree in Computer Engineering for Robotics and Smart Industry Interazione Uomo Macchina (2021/2022)   6  eLearning 2  ADVANCED INTERACTION
Bachelor's degree in Bioinformatics Pattern recognition and Signal and image Processing in Bioinformatics (2021/2022)   12  eLearning 4  SEGNALI E IMMAGINI I (Teoria)
2  SEGNALI E IMMAGINI I (Laboratorio)
Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering Visual intelligence (2021/2022)   6  eLearning 5  (Teoria)
1  (Laboratorio)
Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering Image Processing II (2020/2021)   6  eLearning 1  (Laboratorio)
5  (Teoria)
Bachelor's degree in Bioinformatics Pattern recognition and Signal and image Processing in Bioinformatics (2020/2021)   12  eLearning 2  SEGNALI E IMMAGINI I (Laboratorio)
4  SEGNALI E IMMAGINI I (Teoria)
Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering Image Processing II (2019/2020)   6  eLearning 4  (Teoria)
2  (Laboratorio)
Bachelor's degree in Bioinformatics Signal and image processing for bioinformatics (2019/2020)   12  eLearning 4  (Segnali teoria)
2  (Segnali laboratorio)
Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering Image Processing II (2018/2019)   6  eLearning 2  (Laboratorio)
4  (Teoria)
Bachelor's degree in Bioinformatics Signal and image processing for bioinformatics (2018/2019)   12  eLearning 2  (Segnali laboratorio)
4  (Segnali teoria)
Master's degree in Medical Bioinformatics Biomedical image processing (2017/2018)   6  eLearning 1 
Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering Human-computer Interaction (2017/2018)   6  eLearning 2 
Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering Image Processing II (2017/2018)   6  eLearning 6 
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Signal and image processing (2017/2018)   6    6 
Master's degree in Medical Bioinformatics Biomedical image processing (2016/2017)   6  eLearning 1 
Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering Human-computer Interaction (2016/2017)   6  eLearning 1 
Bachelor's degree in Bioinformatics Image processing for bioinformatics (2016/2017)   6    6 
Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering Image Processing II (2016/2017)   6  eLearning 6 
Master's degree in Bioinformatics and Medical Biotechnology Bioimaging and Biomedical data processing (2015/2016)   12    2  BIOIMMAGINI (laboratorio)
4  BIOIMMAGINI (teoria)
Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering Human-computer Interaction (2015/2016)   6    2 
Bachelor's degree in Bioinformatics Image processing for bioinformatics (2015/2016)   6    6 
Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering Multiresolution analysis: theory and applications (2014/2015)   6    6 
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Signal and image processing (2014/2015)   12    6  IMMAGINI
Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering Multiresolution analysis: theory and applications (2013/2014)   6    6 
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Signal and image processing (2013/2014)   12    6  IMMAGINI
Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering Multimedia communications (2012/2013)   6    6 
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Signal and image processing (2012/2013)   12    6  IMMAGINI
Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering Multimedia communications (2011/2012)   6    6 
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science Signal and image processing (2011/2012)   12    6  IMMAGINI
Master's degree in Bioinformatics and Medical Biotechnology Bioimaging and Biomedical data processing (2010/2011)   12    2  BIOIMMAGINI (Laboratorio)
4  BIOIMMAGINI (Teoria)
Bachelor's degree in Bioinformatics Image processing for bioinformatics (2010/2011)   6    6 
Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering Multimedia communications (2010/2011)   6    6 
Bachelor's degree in Bioinformatics Image processing for bioinformatics (2009/2010)   6    6 
Master's degree in Computer Science and Engineering Multimedia communications (2009/2010)   6    6 
Bachelor's degree in Bioinformatics Systems and Signals for Bio-Informatics (2009/2010)   6    6 
Bachelor in Computer Science (until 2008-2009 academic year) Human-computer Interaction and Multimedia (2008/2009)   5    1  Laboratorio
4  Teoria
Bachelor's degree in Bioinformatics (until 2008-2009) Image Processing (2008/2009)   5    5 
Bachelor's degree in Bioinformatics (until 2008-2009) Systems and Signals for Bio-Informatics (2008/2009)   5    5 
Bachelor's degree in Multimedia Information Technology (until 2008-2009) Computer Architecture (2007/2008)   10    1  Laboratorio
Bachelor in Computer Science (until 2008-2009 academic year) Computer Architecture (2007/2008)   10    1  Laboratorio

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Research interests
Topic Description Research area
Biomedical data processing Feature extraction and integration from multi-modal data using multi-scale sparse representations for the definition of numerical biomarkers. Pattern recognition and machine learning for medical imaging and behavioral analysis. Medicina diagnostica di precisione e personalizzata
Medicina diagnostica di precisione e personalizzata
Multi-modal biomedical image processing Computer vision and computational intelligence. Segmentation of multi-dimensional multi-modal data and objective validation of the outcomes. Bioengineering
Bioengineering
Neuroimaging The main activity is in the field of neuroimaging, including structural (diffusion MRI) and functional (EEG, fNIRS, functional MRI) imaging as well as perceptual analysis through cognitive science methods. The goal is to gain an holistic view of human brain when inspected in specific conditions by the integration of multi-modal multi-scale probing and modeling. In addition, advanced computer vision and pattern recognition methods are employed for designing numerical biomarkers for the characterization of healthy and pathological conditions. Bioengineering
Bioengineering
Sparse signal processing Sparse multi-resolution representations for analysis and modeling of biological signals including diffusion MRI and EEG. Bioengineering
Bioengineering
Projects
Title Starting date
INTELLI-MI 10/2/24
EDIPO: A computational solution for bringing neuroimaging genetic into translational research 4/1/20
User profiling from heterogeneous big data by machine learning for Fair digital innovation 9/1/19
Brain connectivity underlying physiological and pathological patterns in action tremor 8/1/19
Raccolta e integrazione di fonti eterogenee di dati e progettazione di una piat-taforma per la profilazione di eventi fieristici 8/20/18
Mapping functional connectivity patterns in neurological and neurosurgical dis-eases with Arterial Spin Labeling and Blood Oxygenation Level Dependent MRI (VBRF) 8/1/16
Brain microstructural modeling for improved TMS anchoring - Joint Projects 2015 7/1/16
Studio, implementazione e validazione di interfacce per sistemi robotici (FSE) 7/1/16
INVESTIGATION OF STRUCTURAL AND FUNCTIONAL BRAIN CONNECTIVITY FROM MULTIMODAL DATA 1/1/15
Automatic Human behavior Analysis in neurological Diseases: the case of epilepsy 9/18/13
Fusione e quality assesment di immagini da TC volumetrica "cone beam" 7/1/13
Elaborazione di dati volumetrici per applicazioni CBCT NewTom 12/1/11
BrainFit: Trattografia da risonanza in diffusione per la pianificazione radioterapica e chirurgica (PRIN 2009) 10/17/11
Studio della regione infiltrativa tumorale in modelli murini di glioma: sviluppo di tecniche di processamento dati ed analisi d'immagini ad hoc per tecniche avanzate di Risonanza Magnetica - Joint Project 2010 6/1/11

Projects
Title Starting date
INTELLI-MI 10/2/24



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