Talks
Presentations I have given at conferences, seminars, and other events.
An Edge-Cloud Digital Twin Platform for Intelligent Smart Park Services
Protected natural areas increasingly require intelligent infrastructures to monitor environmental conditions, support visitors, and assist park management while preserving privacy and operating under limited connectivity. Addressing these challenges requires integrated architectures that combine distributed sensing, edge intelligence, cloud services, and Digital Twin (DT) technologies. This work presents a Smart Park platform developed for the "I Giganti della Sila" State Reserve in the Sila National Park, Calabria, Italy. The platform adopts a layered edge-cloud architecture organized around a closed operational loop that acquires environmental and visitor data, processes them through distributed intelligence, and delivers actionable services to visitors and park operators. A territorial DT federates multiple sensing and analytics subsystems into a unified, real-time representation of the park.
Digital Twin Engineering: Architectures, AI Techniques, and the TopDown/BottomUp Lifecycle of Behavior Model Construction
Tutorial co-presented with Dr. Roberto Minerva exploring the software-oriented foundations of Digital Twin engineering. It examines how architectural choices, AI techniques (Deep Learning, Generative AI, and Reinforcement Learning in the loop), and top-down/bottom-up methodologies shape viable behavior models across the entire lifecycle of a Twin.
Wearable Monitoring for Early Cardiotoxicity Detection in Cancer Patients: The COMPASS Vision
The talk examined the role of continuous wearable monitoring in the early detection of cancer therapy-related cardiovascular toxicity. It reviewed the main wearable sensing modalities for cardiovascular biomarkers, ECG, PPG, blood pressure estimation, heart rate variability, and IMU-derived functional capacity, together with their clinical relevance and metrological limitations, and introduced the research vision of the COMPASS project, an EU-funded initiative integrating wearable-derived data into AI-based clinical decision support for personalized cardio-oncology care.
Enhancing Intelligent Transportation Systems with Optimal Cloud-to-Things Resource Allocation
Presentation of my latest work extending Intelligent Transportation Systems by optimally allocating computing resources across the Cloud-to-Things continuum.
Engineering Opportunistic Digital Twins with Lingua Franca
Talk presenting my latest work on engineering Opportunistic Digital Twins using Lingua Franca. The presentation shows how deterministic coordination and explicit timing semantics can support reliable, AI-enabled digital twins that opportunistically leverage edge-cloud resources, illustrated through a Smart Traffic Management case study for Emergency Vehicle Preemption.