Dr. Irene Rechichi
Postdoctoral fellow
Politecnico di Torino,
Department of Control and Computer Engineering
Irene Rechichi is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Department of Control and Computer Engineering working on artificial intelligence in sleep. She received her PhD in Computer and Control Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in 2024, with the thesis Sleep in Neurodegenerative Diseases: An Integrated Approach to Diagnosis and Monitoring.
Her primary research area involves the analysis of human sleep as a marker of neurodegeneration. Her main interests include the application of artificial intelligence for minimally-intrusive sleep studies and the computer-assisted diagnosis of sleep disorders. She also works on developing innovative strategies and solutions for continuous, lightweight monitoring of sleep disorders, particularly in Parkinson’s Disease.
She is also actively engaged in the fields of Telehealth and neuroscience. She collaborates with Gianluca Amprimo on innovative tele-rehabilitation frameworks. In particular, she investigates mental workload and neural activations during motor-cognitive tasks for Parkinson’s Disease and metabolic disorders, through the analysis of electrophysiological signals. The use of artificial intelligence helps exploring physiological parameters and aims at developing interactive, personalised and subject-adaptive tele-rehabilitation strategies.
Irene collaborates with the Department of Neuroscience and the Parkinson’s Unit at the University of Turin. During her PhD she was a visiting student at the Sleep Lab in the Department of Neurology at the Medizinische Universität Innsbruck.
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