Mario earned a PhD in Bioengineering and Biosciences from theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, specializing in Biomedical Engineering. He currently holds a Tenure Track position in Biomedical Engineering at the IHT Laboratory, with research interests spanning Artificial Intelligence methods and applications. Over the past decade, this has included methodological contributions and healthcare applications of Deep Learning, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, Decision Support Systems, the Internet of Things, and GenAI. Mario has applied these methodologies to a wide range of data and signals, from genetics to cancer, from diabetic conditions to COPD, from cardiovascular to neurological and musculoskeletal diseases. He has supervised numerous undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate student projects, and has taught for many years in deep learning, healthcare information systems, and biomedical signal processing. He is an assistant editor for top-tier biomedical engineering journals and has published more than 80 peer-reviewed scientific articles in these fields. Mario has been Principal Investigator, Co-Investigator or Unit Leader in several research projects funded by the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Research, private companies and the European Community.
Associate Professor in Automation since 2023, he directs the Laboratory of Complex Systems and Security (http://www.coseritylab.it/) and carries out research activities related to the control of multi-agent systems, distributed optimization and decision methods multi-criteria, with a production of over 50 papers in journals with impact factor.
Professor of Biomedical Engineering (Electronic and informatics bioengineering ING-INF/06). Graduated in EEE, specialized in Biomedical Engineering in 2005 at the Uny “Federico II” of Naples, where received also a PhD in BME & Management of Healthcare Services in 2009. After a brief appointments as PDRA at UNINA, he moved to the UK ( University of Sheffield, 2008-2009; University of Nottingham, 2011-2013) and in 2013 at the University of Warwick, where he is part-time Professor of Biomedical Engineering.
Since September 2020, Prof Pecchia is the innovation manager for the non-pharmacological COVID-19 technologies at the World Health Organization (WHO) Emergency program (WHE) in the Infection Prevention and Control (IPC) unit.
He authored more than 200 peer-reviewed papers on journals, books and conferences in the fields of medical devices, biomedical signal processing, Health Technology Assessment (HTA), Internet of Things and machine learning and AI applied to active and healthy aging and management of chronic diseases (Prof Pecchia updated publication list).
Dr Pecchia is a proactive member of several scientific societies and NGOs in official relations with the United Nations.
Currently, he is President (2021-23) of the European scientific society of biomedical engineering (EAMBES), Secretary General (2022-25) of the International Federation of Medical and Biological Engineering (IFMBE). In the Past he has been the Secretary General (2018-2022) of the International scientific society of medical physics and biomedical engineering (IUPESM), Treasurer (2018-2022) of the IFMBE Clinical Engineering Division, and former IFMBE Healthcare Technology Assessment Division Chair (2015-18) and Treasurer (2012-15).
FAMILY NAME: PIEMONTE
FIRST NAMES: Vincenzo
DATE OF BIRTH: 11th April 1979
NATIONALITY: Italian
EDUCATION: 2004 – University of Rome “La Sapienza” – Degree in Chemical Engineering
2004 – University of Rome “La Sapienza” Master Degree in Industrial Chemical Processes
2005 – Member of the National Register of Engineers
2008 – PhD in Industrial Chemical Processes, University of Rome “La Sapienza”
Born in 1976, he obtained a Degree in Materials Engineering from the University of Trieste (2002) and a PhD in Materials for the Environment and Energy from the University of Rome “Tor Vergata” (2007). In 2012, he was a Researcher in Chemical Foundations of Technologies (SSD CHIM/07) at theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma. From 2018 to 2025, he is Associate Professor in Industrial Bioengineering (SSD ING-IND/34) at the same University. Since February 2025, he is Full Professor of Bioengineering (IBIO-01/A).
Fixed-term researcher of type A at the Laboratory of Processing Systems and Bioinformatics, he obtained his PhD in Science and Engineering for Man and the Environment with a curriculum in information technologies for biomedicine at theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma. The research topics convert into the IT/electronic sector as a tool for the design and development of firmware and read-out electronics for medical, industrial and food sensors.
Full Professor of Electronics. He is currently the Chair of the Master's Degree Program in Food Science and Technology and Food Design. He is co-head of the Electronics for Sensory Systems unit, where he focuses on the development of sensors and their electronic interfaces for medical, food, and environmental applications.
Roberto Setola he is the Rector's Delegate for Cyber Security, Scientific Director of the II level university Master's degree in "Homeland Security: Systems, Methods and Tools for Security and Crisis Management" (www.MasterHomelandSecurity.eu) and Director of the Complex Systems and Security Laboratories (www.coseritylab.it).
Since November 2019 he has a position of Expert at the Presidency of the Council of Ministers on the subject of Resilience of Critical Infrastructures. Area in which he has held various positions at national and international level, among which he was the head of the technical secretariat of the Working Group for the Protection of Critical Computerized Infrastructures.
Director General of the National Inter-University Consortium for Logistics and Transport (NITEL) (since 2018)
National expert within the Horizon Europe program for Cluster 3 “Civil Security for Society” (since 2021)
Coordinator of the technical table on "Cyber Resilience of Critical Infrastructures" set up by Unindustria (since 2022)
Also it was
- Rector's Delegate for University-Business relations (Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma) [2014-22]
- Member of the Digital Transformation Unit established at the National School of Administration, Presidency of the Council of Ministers [2019-20]
- President of the Industrial Engineering Degree Course at theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma President of the Industrial Engineering Degree Course at theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma [-2014 17]
He is the author of 8 volumes (5 of which in English) and over 250 national and international publications on topics related to the control of complex systems, the resilience of critical infrastructures, Homeland Security and Cyber security with a specific focus on what concerns Operational Technologies.
Full Professor of Mechanical and Thermal Measurements at the Departmental Faculty of Engineering of theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma. Professor, at the same University, of Measurements and Instrumentation for Clinical Diagnostics and Diagnostic Instrumentation for Imaging. He is responsible for the Clinical Engineering Service of the Campus Bio-Medico University Hospital. He is the author of a monograph, a book chapter, over 130 international publications, two collaborations in manuals "Fundamentals of Clinical Engineering" Vol 1 and 2. He is inventor for an international patent and a European patent application. He is President of the Biomedical Engineering Commission of the Professional Order of Engineers of Rome and Province.
Paolo Soda graduated with honors in Biomedical Engineering at Campus Bio-Medico University (UCBM) of Rome in 2004 and obtained the PhD in Biomedical Engineering (IT area) in 2008 at the same University. He is Full Professor of Information Processing Systems at theUCBM, Visiting Professor in Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Engineering at the Department of Diagnostics and Intervention, Umeå University, Sweden. He is also the coordinator of the National Doctorate in Artificial Intelligence, for the Health and Life Sciences area (cycles XXXIX, XL, and XLI) and vice coordinator for cycles XXXVII and XXXVIII.
His research interests include artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, big data analytics, data mining, and 2D and 3D image and video processing and analysis. He serves on program committees of international conferences and serves as a reviewer for international journals, as well as a guest editor for high-impact international journals. Since 2012, he has served as associate editor of the proceedings of the Annual Int Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society. From 2018 to 2021, he chaired the steering committee of the IEEE Int Symposium of Computer-Based Medical Systems. He has served as co-PI of national and international projects. His research activity is certified by >190 scientific publications, >2850 citations, h-index 29 (Scopus, 21/09/2025). He is co-author of 6 papers in proceedings of international conferences that received an award (IEEE LSC 2018, IEEE BIBM 2018, IEEE ICCI*CC 2019, IEEE CBMS 2021, IEEE CBMS 2025).
He coordinated the winning working group of 2 international competitions: "COVID CXR Hackathon" (2022 Dubai Expo) and "All against COVID-19: Screening X-ray Images for COVID-19 Infection" (IEEE 2021). He is co-founder of BPCOmedia srl, an innovative start-up and non-owned spin-off of UCBM.
