Prof. Paolo Soda
Biography
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 >220 scientific publications, >3450 citations, h-index 31 (Scopus, 09/06/2025). He is co-author of 8 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, IEEE CBMS 2026).
He coordinated the winning working group of two 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 spin-off of UCBM) and Cognivia srl (innovative start-up).
Curriculum
------Academic qualifications
1) PhD in Biomedical Engineering, Curriculum in Computer Science (SSD reference ING INF/05).
Institution: "Campus Bio-Medico" University of ROME (UCBM) - Via Alvaro del Portillo, 21 - ROME
Date awarded: 08/02/2008
Thesis title: Computer-Aided Diagnosis in Antinuclear Autoantibodies Analysis
2) Master's Degree in Biomedical Engineering
Institution: UCBM
Date awarded: 19/11/2004
Thesis title: Automation of diagnostic imaging in Immunofluorescence analysis: acquisition, processing and classification
Mark achieved: 110 cum laude
3) Three-year degree in Biomedical Engineering
Institution: UCBM
Date awarded: 23/10/2002
Thesis title: Realization of a non-invasive device for the safe execution of otological surgery
Mark achieved: 110 cum laude
------Experiences (4 most recent)
1) Period: from 01/11/2022 to 31/10/2025
Position: Research Coordinator and Third Mission
Institution: Departmental Faculty of Engineering, UCBM
2) Period: from 01/04/2022
Position: Visiting Professor in Artificial Intelligence and Biomedical Engineering
Institution: Department of Diagnostics and Intervention, Umeå University, Umeå Sweden
3) Period: from 01/02/2022
Position: Full Professor, SSD ING-INF/05, Information Processing Systems
Institution: UCBM
4) Period: from 01/01/2015 to 31/1/2022
Position: Associate Professor, SSD ING-INF/05, Information Processing Systems
Institution: UCBM
-----Assignment of official teaching or research positions (fellowship) at highly qualified foreign and international universities and research institutes
1) Period. From October 2023
Type: Coordinator of the National Doctorate in Artificial Intelligence, Health and Life Sciences area
Type: Coordinator of the organizing committee of the National Doctoral School in Artificial Intelligence, Health and Life Sciences
2) Period: 11/2014
Typology: Teaching and Research
Institution: Henan University, China
3) Period: 09/2012 – 03/2013 and from 01/2015 – 02/2015
Typology: Teaching
Institution: Locarno medical technical high school, digital image processing module, course for medical radiology technician
4) Period: 09/2012 – 09/2012
Typology: Teaching and Research
Institution: Eindhoven University of Technology, Dept of Computer Science, The Netherlands
5) Period: 03/2010 - 04/2010
Typology: Teaching and Research
Institution: Polytech'Nice, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France
------Other scientific activities
He serves as a reviewer, guest editor, and program committee member for conferences and journals in his fields of research. He is a member of the steering committee of the IEEE Symposium on Computer-Based-Medical Systems, and served as its general chair in 2012, 2016, 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2021. He is an Associate Editor of Pattern Recognition, Elsevier. He has been a co-guest editor of Pattern Recognition, Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Information Processing & Management, and Computational Intelligence. He is an associate editor of the Proceedings of the 34th, 35th, and 36th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine & Biology Society.
He is a founding member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Brain-inspired Cognitive Systems, and an executive committee member of the IEEE Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing.
He is a reviewer of competitive calls for funding agencies (Vidi, ANR, NWO, EPFL).
PUBLICATIONS
For the complete list of publications please refer to
- Scopus link: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=22036116900
- Scholar link: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=E7rcYCQAAAAJ&hl=it&oi=ao
