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Luca Ascari received the Laurea Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Parma (Italy) in 2000.
He spent one year in Philips Research Labs; in 2001 he was with Marconi Photonics Research Labs.
In 2002 he joined Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna (CRIM Lab) where he worked in several public and private-funded international research projects and obtained the Ph.D. Degree in Bioengineering, focus on medical Robotics (with honours) in 2005. Until 2007 he continued his research here and at IMT (Lucca, Italy), in the field neuromorphic systems for tactile and vestibular perception in robotics.
He has been visiting scientist at Pazmany University and Analogic and Neural Computing Lab, Budapest, Hungary, at Forschungszentrum Informatik FZI, Karlsruhe, Germany, and at Department of Integrative Medical Biology, Physiology Section, Umeå University, Sweden.
In 2007 he founded Henesis Srl, where he now serves as President and CEO. Dr. Ascari collaborates also with the Centre of Excellence for Information, Communication and Perception Engineering (CEIICP) of the Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, in the field of diffuse optical tomography for cardiac applications.
He co-authored more than 20 scientific publications in international journals and conferences, as well as four patents; he serves as expert reviewer for the European Commission.
Since 2009 he serves as national advisor in the AGESCI Italian Boy Scout Association.
Contact: luca.ascari@henesis.eu

Ivano Izzo holds a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering from University of Pisa, Italy, and a Ph.D. in BioEngineering from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy. Dr. Izzo is post-doc fellow at CRIM Lab, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna. He actively works in the fields of microfluidics and mathematical modeling of soft tissues. He is author of one international patent and several publications on scientific journals and international conference proceedings.

Federico Sassi has received the Master Degree (cum laude) in Computer Science at the University of Parma, Italy, with a thesis titled "Classification of Land based on Texture Analysis for Outdoor Navigation through an Hybrid Visual Sensor"(2007). He received a Degree in Computer Science at the same university with a thesis entitled "Pattern Classification in Java using Soft Computing techniques" (2004). Currently he is attending the second year of PhD in Information Technologies at the University of Parma (2009).
The main interests of research are the use of soft-computing and evolutionary calculus techniques applied to artificial vision through non-conventional vision sensors and mobile robotics. The research of bio-inspired techniques for extracting information from natural images, the exploration and creation of bio-inspired artificial intelligences for the extraction and recognition of patterns from a pseudo-random space.
In 2008 he attended the 2nd Master Executive of "Management dell'Innovazione e dei Servizi" at SIAF, Volterra, Italy.
Contact: federico.sassi@henesis.eu

Lorenzo Chiesi received the Technical Degree in Electronics and Telecommunications from State Technical Industrial Institute of Parma in 2002; since then he collaborated with several companies as embedded systems designer gaining experience in the field of microcontroller system design.
In 2005 he received First-Class Degree summa cum laude in Electronics Engineering from the University of Parma with a thesis in the field of hybrid audio power amplifier (analog/digital).
In 2009 he received from the same university the Master Degree summa cum laude in Electronics Engineering discussing a thesis in the field of electroacoustic on a new approach to digital processing of spherical microphone arrays signals based on FIR filters synthetized by inversion of experimental measurements of impulse response.
Contact: lorenzo.chiesi@henesis.eu

Matteo Sacchi received his Master Degree in computer science summa cum laudae in 2007 at the University of Parma. In 2008 he won a scholarship financed by Italian Rail Network (RFI) for the development of an automatic system for diagnosing the state of the pantograph trains using techniques of artificial vision (Pantograph Automatic Vision-based Inspection SYStem).
In 2009 he won a contract of the consortium Spinner 2013 to continue in the research and engineering of the project which will see the laying of the first system in 2010. Since 2009 collaborates with Henesis, so in addition to the realization of PAVISYS, he supervised the design and development portal for sensor networks, WINSnP.
He has sound knowledge in the field of soft computing, where in 2004 as a thesis of the third year has developed a programming framework in Java (JINPAG) and in the field of Artificial Vision; can boast an excellent knowledge of Object Oriented programming and design patterns.
Contact: matteo.sacchi@henesis.eu

Luca Mussi graduated in Computer Engineering at the University of Parma (2005), and was awarded the PhD degree in Mathematics and Information Technology for Processing and Representation of Information and Knowledge at the University of Perugia (2008).
He currently holds a research fellowship, granted by Henesis Srl, at the Department of Information Engineering - University of Parma.
His research activities focus on Evolutionary Compuation and Soft-Computing techniques, mainly applyed to the detection and tracking of moving objects for video surveillance and mobile robotics. He is also interested in hybrid video sensors, which couple omnidirectional and traditional cameras.
Contact: luca.mussi@henesis.eu

Lara González Villanueva received her Master Degree in Telecommunication Engineering from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria in 2009. In her Master Thesis, named “Image Quality Enhancement for Medical Diagnosis” and evaluated cum laude, she developed a system, based on super-resolution, that permits to obtain a high resolution image by combining the information from different frames of a low-resolution sequence, in order to improve the diagnostic process and the detection of several pathologies.
During the last year she has been working for the multinational company Indra in the development and improvement of traffic control systems, and finishing her last subjects for achieving a Master Degree in Electronic Engineering. She has been recently awarded by the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria for being the first student of her promotion and having the best academic record.
At present, she is working at Henesis as a researcher for the FP7 EU project MIBISOC, “Medical Imaging using Bio-inspired and Soft Computing”.
Contact: lara.villanueva@henesis.eu

Pouya Ahmadian received her Master Degree in Artificial Intelligence from the Amirkabir University of Technology. In her thesis tittled “A Robust Method for Hiding Fingerprint Biometric Information in Fractal Image for Identification”
She developed an efficient algorithm to hide one biometric measurement (fingerprint minutiae points) into another (fractal images) in order to increase the overall security and accuracy of human recognition system. The research won the Iran Telecommunication Research Center (ITRC) Grant .
For the last two years she has been working as Data Mining Group Manager on Social Network Analysis project in Strategic Management of Cyberspace Security Organization.
At present, she is working at Henesis as Ph.D. student in the framework of the EU FP7 MIBISOC project (“Medical Imaging using Bio-inspired and Soft Computing”).
Contact: pouya.ahmadian@henesis.eu

Roberto Bacchini received the High School Diploma from Liceo Scientifico Viadana in Summer 2005. Student of Digital Communication at Università degli Studi di Milano since fall 2005, he focused his studies on the visual and comunicative aspect of Informatics.
His main interests are Game Design and Virtual Communities. With almost all exam done, he is now working on his thesis in Henesis. He’s also unit chief in Boretto’s local Scout Group.