Joanna Jankowska, "I really wanted to come to Italy and see Rome, combining the pleasure of this visit with the possibility of increasing my skills in an area that I really like, information technology linked to human beings. I can say I succeeded, because at theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma technology and bio-medicine are very interconnected”. These words contain the heart of the internship experience that a young Polish university student, Joanna Jankowska, took place in the months of July and August at the university campus of Trigoria.
Student of the Gdańsk University of Technology, she has just completed a two-month internship at the Laboratory of Processing Systems and Bioinformatics, dedicated to a study on facial recognition
4 September 2015 -
Born 22 years ago in the city of Grudziądz, with almost 100 inhabitants 120 kilometers south of Gdansk, Joanna – who calls herself Asia – told us about the impressions and lessons she learned from participating in a research project on facial recognition through biometric tools. “I had decided to go abroad – explains Asia – to get some practical experience and see how you study in universities in other countries. I could also have done an internship in a company, but I preferred university”. In fact, the young student sees a career as an academic teacher in her future. “When it came to looking for the right venue - keep it going – I opted for a university where I could explore better than I can at my own university, the University of Technology of Gdansk, the links between information technology and the medical field. Therefore I chose the Campus Bio-Medico of Rome".
Asia met theUniversità Campus Bio-Medico di Roma almost by chance. “A friend of my sister's told me about it once when I went to visit her in Belgium, where she is studying. This friend is an Italian researcher. He was carrying out a research project here, so he told me about the activities going on inside the facility. I liked the idea and immediately applied".
At the Bio-Medical Campus, Asia was included in the Processing Systems and Bioinformatics Laboratory, directed by Prof. Giulio Iannello. "My main tutor - he tells - it was the prof. Paolo Soda. With him, with Prof. Iannello and the team of researchers worked on a project by Human Face Recognition, a study that wants to develop an identification system through human facial features. It works a bit like fingerprint recognition. Once perfected, it will be an advanced system capable of securing access to credit cards, bank accounts and others systems that today require identification credentials or passwords”. At the end of her journey, the trainee has very beautiful memories to pack. “I will bring with me – he underlines with a smile – a new approach on the way to follow and study some subjects, on the methods with which the teachers teach them, but above all on the friendliness of the people I met here. They were very friendly, they helped me a lot and it was easier to work".
Before leaving, a thank you and an invitation: “I would like to express my sincere gratitude to whoever gave me this opportunity. From day one, everyone within Campus Bio-Medico made me feel at ease. I also bring new friends to Poland, who I hope will soon come and visit me again".
