Leandro Pecchia is a Professor of Biomedical Engineering (Electronic and informatics bioengineering (ING-INF/06). He graduated in EEE with specialization in Biomedical Engineering in 2005 at the University “Federico II” of Naples, where he received also the PhD in Biomedical Engineering and Management of Healthcare Services in 2009. After a brief appointment as Post-Doc Research Fellow (PDRA) at UNINA, he moved to the UK, where we joined the University of Sheffield (2008-2009) as Visiting Research Student, then the University of Nottingham as PDRA (2011-2013), and in 2013 the University of Warwick, where he has still a part0time appointment, as Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Since 2014, he directed the Applied Biomedical Signal Processing and Intelligent eHealth Lab (ABSPIE), which focuses on design of medical devices, applications of Artificial Intelligence and Internet of Things (IoT) for Active and Healthy Ageing and for the management of chronic conditions.
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 ageing 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).
In 2015, as EAMBES Public Affairs Councillor, he established the first European Parliament Interest Group on Biomedical Engineering (EPIG BME), which is the main forum in the world where BME community and policy makers meet regularly (circa once per year) to discuss relevant topics and inform forthcoming policies in the domain of technologies for health.
Sessions in which Prof Leandro Pecchia participates
University Ca' Foscari - Aula Mario Baratto
Panel
Pilar Sala, MYSPHERA (Moderator)
Stea Miteva, UDG (Speaker)
Prof Leandro Pecchia, UniRoma (Speaker)
Franco Mercalli, MultiMed Engineers (Speaker)
Dr Eugenio Gaeta, UPM/IDEA4RC (Speaker)
Pietro Randine, Norwegian Centre for E-health Research (Speaker)
Cristina Melero, Medtronic Ibérica S.A. (Speaker)
Networking Events
Ms Cecilia Àlvarez Rigaudias, Meta (Participant)
Mr. Pasquale Annicchino, Università di Foggia (Participant)
Francisco Arga e Lima, ELSA (Participant)
Mr Alessandro Bernes, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice (Participant)
Luca Bolognini, Istituto Italiano per la Privacy e la Valorizzazione dei Dati (Participant)
Prof. Carlo Alberto Carnevale-Maffé, Bocconi University (Participant)
Roberto Cascella, European Cyber Security Organisation (ECSO) (Participant)
Ms Anna Cataleta, P4I (Participant)
Vinton G. Cerf, Google (Participant)
Avv Vincenzo Colarocco, Circolo dei Giuristi Telematici (Participant)
Mr Cédric Crettaz, IoT Lab (Participant)
Alessandro Del Ninno, Tonucci & Partners Law Firm (Participant)
Giuseppe Fico, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Participant)
Mr Stefano Fratta, Meta (Participant)
Dr Marie-Louise Gächter, Data Protection Authority of the Principality of Liechtenstein (Participant)
Ms Clarisse Girot, OECD (Participant)
Ms. Urszula Góral, Personal Data Protection Office (Participant)
Thomas Hahn, Siemens AG (Participant)
Ms Katherine Harman-Stokes, Department of Justice (Participant)
Ms Andrea Jelinek, EDPB / DSB (Participant)
Mr Peter Kimpian, Council of Europe (Participant)
Ms. Kari Laumann, Norwegian Data Protection Authority (Participant)
Ms Catherine Lennman, Swiss Data Protection Authority (Participant)
Prof. Francisco Lupiáñez-Villanueva, Predictby (Participant)
Mr Alessandro Mantelero, Polytechnic University of Turin (Participant)
Estelle Massé, Access Now (Participant)
Fabrice Naftalski, SGS (Participant)
Paul Nemitz, European Commission (Participant)
Roberto Obialero, Clusit (Participant)
Mr Enrico Pelino, Grieco Pelino Avvocati (GPA) (Participant)
Dr Attila Péterfalvi, Hungarian National Authority for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Participant)
Ms Alessandra Pierucci, Garante per la protezione dei dati personali/Council of Europe Consultative Committee of Convention 108 (Participant)
Ms Audrey Plonk, OECD (Participant)
Ms. Renáta Radócz, IoTLab (Participant)
Anand Rao, PricewaterhouseCoopers (Participant)
Mr Giovanni Maria Riccio, E-Lex Law Firm (Participant)
Ph.D., LL.M. Carlo Rossi Chauvenet, CRCLEX (Participant)
Mr Ralf Sauer, European Commission (Participant)
Dr Stefan Schiffner, BHH University of Applied Sciences (Participant)
Mr Guido Scorza, GPDP (Participant)
Isabelle Servoz-Gallucci, Council of Europe (Participant)
Claudio Telmon, Clusit (Participant)
Ms Cécile Théard-Jallu, International Bar Association (Participant)
Mr Nino Tlapak, DORDA (Participant)
Wojciech Wiewiórowski, European Data Protection Supervisor (Participant)
Sébastien Ziegler, Mandat International / ECCP (Participant)
Ms Selina Zipponi, Dedalus Group (Participant)
Conor Hogan, BSI Group (Participant)
Laure Le Bars, SAP (Participant)
Mr Marco Scialdone, Euroconsumers (Participant)
Mr Waldemar Gonçalves Ortunho Júnior, National Data Protection Authority (ANPD) (Participant)
Bruno Gencarelli, Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers at the European Commission (Participant)
Ms. Elham Tabassi, NIST (Participant)
Ms. Jane Horvath, Apple (Participant)
Mr Rob van Eijk, Future of Privacy Forum (FPF) (Participant)
Ms Karolina Mackiewicz, European Connected Health Alliance (Participant)
Mr Alban Schmutz, OVHcloud (Participant)
Alexander Filip, Data Protection Authority of Bavaria for the Private Sector (Participant)
Mr Gwendal Le Grand, EDPB (European Data Protection Board) (Participant)
Brent Homan, Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (Participant)
Latif Ladid, IPv6 Forum (Participant)
Mr Olivier Guillo, Smart Global Governance (Participant)
Antonio Skarmeta, Universidad de Murcia (Participant)
Mr David Goodman, Trust in Digital Life (Participant)
Joann O´Brien, TM Forum (Participant)
Eva Fogelström, Ericsson (Participant)
Kai Rannenberg, Goethe University (Participant)
Ms Magdalena Kogut, Timelex (Participant)
Mr James Joshi, US National Science Foundation (Participant)
Ms. Federica Paolucci, ELSA International (Participant)
Tanya Suarez, BlueSpecs/AIOTI (Participant)
Mr Joe Jones, IAPP (Participant)
Steve Wood, PrivacyX Consulting (Participant)
Mr Renato Opice Blum, Opice Blum, Bruno e Vainzof Advogados (Participant)
Ms. Heidi Kivekäs, National Cyber Security Centre of Finland (Participant)
Bilel Jamoussi, ITU/AI4GOOD (Participant)
Mr Gurdip Singh, National Science Foundation (Participant)
Dr Ana Brian Nougrères, OHCHR (Participant)
Ms. Blanca Lilia Ibarra Cadena, National Institute for Transparency Access to Information and Personal Data Protection (Participant)
Mr Norman Barbosa, Microsoft (Participant)
Ms Silvia Stefanelli, Clusit (Participant)
Andrea Stazi, Google (Participant)
Ms Laura Liguori, Portolano Cavallo (Participant)
Ms Fernanda Faini, Università Telematica Pegaso (Participant)
Mr Rosario Imperiali D'Afflitto, Officine Dati (Participant)
Mr Diego Fulco, Istituto Italiano per la Privacy e la Valorizzazione dei Dati (Participant)
Mr Rocco Panetta, IAPP (Participant)
Geert Somers, Timelex (Participant)
Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Radboud University (Participant)
Ms Nadia Arnaboldi, CEDPO/ASSO DPO (Participant)
Fabiana Zollo, Ca' Foscari University of Venice (Participant)
Teresa Scantamburlo, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia (Participant)
Prof. Fabrizio Marrella, Ca' Foscari University (Participant)
Tim Jacquemard, Trilateral Research (Participant)
Julie Brill, Microsoft (Participant)
Cornelia Kutterer, Microsoft (Participant)
Patrick Wetterwald, Cisco (Participant)
Ms Florence Raynal, CNIL (Participant)
Alexander Seger, Council of Europe (Participant)
Ms. Anna Fielder, EDRI (Participant)
Pierre Chastanet, European Commission DG Connect (Participant)
Mr Olivier Micol, European Commission - Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers (Participant)
Anne Josephine Flanagan, WEF (Participant)
Duncan Brown, IDC (Participant)
Yiannos Tolias, European Commission (Participant)
Prof Leandro Pecchia, UniRoma (Participant)
Mr Paolo Balboni, Maastricht University - European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) (Participant)
Mr. Giulio Maggiore, Telecom Italia (Participant)
Ms Jana Pattynová, EFDPO (Participant)
Fabrizio Venturelli, WORKDAY (Participant)
Mr Spiros Tassis, EFDPO (Participant)
Ms. Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology (Participant)
Aleksandra Korolova, USC (Participant)
Norman Sadeh, Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) (Participant)
Fulvio Sarzana di S. Ippolito, International University UniNettuno of Rome (Participant)
Ms. Cristina Schulman, Cybercrime Convention Committee (Participant)
Avv. Nicola Fabiano, Studio Legale Fabiano (Participant)
Mr Cosimo Monda, European Centre on Privacy and Cybersecurity (ECPC) (Participant)
Mr Massimo Marelli, International Committee of the Red Cross (Participant)
Mr Aaron Martin, Tilburg Law School (Participant)
Mr John Magee, DLA Piper Ireland LLP (Participant)
Mr Giulio Coraggio, DLA Piper (Participant)
Mr Giangiacomo Olivi, Dentons Europe Studio Legale Tributario (Participant)
Dott. Agostino Ghiglia, Italian Data Protection Supervisory Authority (Participant)
Mr Peter Winn, Department of Justice (Participant)
Daniele Canavese, Politecnico di Torino (Participant)
Afonso Ferreira, CNRS - Programme Manager for European Affairs - Toulouse Institute of Computer Sciences - IRIT - France (Participant)
Sunil Chaudhary, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (Participant)
Vasileios Gkioulos, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) (Participant)
Carlos Esteban Budde, University of Trento (Participant)
Giuseppe Manco (Participant)
Shukun Tokas, SINTEF DIGITAL (Participant)
Laurens Sion, KU Leuven (Participant)
Médéric Collas, Informatique Banque Populaire (Participant)
Stephan Krenn, Austrian Institute of Technology (AIT) (Participant)
Juan Carlos, Atos Spain (Participant)
Carlos Abellan, QuSide (Participant)
Martina Ottavi, Thales Alenia Space (Participant)
Lutz Peschke, Bilkent University (Participant)
Athanasios Drougkas, EU Agency for Cybersecurity - ENISA (Participant)
Mr Lucio Scudiero, Legance (Participant)
Frans Folkvord, PandeVita (Participant)
Ms. Marit Hansen, Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz (ULD) (Participant)
Tommaso Stranieri, Deloitte Risk Advisory (Participant)
Mr Andrea Rigoni, Deloitte (Participant)
Mr Valerio Sudrio, Usercentrics (Participant)
Mr Stefano Leucci, STELLANTIS (Participant)
Ms. Eleni Diamanti, CNRS (Participant)
Simone Capeleto, ThinkQuantum (Participant)
Stefano Rinauro, Polizia di Stato (Participant)
Adam Smith, Boston University (Participant)
Mario Maawad, CaixaBank (Participant)
Aljosa Pasic, Atos Spain (Participant)
Mr Olivier Matter, European Data Protection Supervisor (Participant)
George Mina, Australian Government - Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Participant)
David Reichel, European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights (FRA) (Participant)
Chiara Romano, Garante per la Protezione dei Dati Personali (Participant)
Thomas Duong, Health Data Hub (Participant)
Philipp Mittelberger, BWB Rechtsanwälte AG (Participant)
Nathalie Thiberge, European Commission (Participant)
Julien Thomas, Standard & Poors (S&P Global Ratings) (Participant)
Giuseppe Vallone, University of Padova (Participant)
Rainer Baumgart, Eurobits / eleQtron (Participant)
Andreas Maetzler, Prighter Group (Participant)
Sebastian Steinbuss, International Data Spaces Association (Participant)
Mr Pierre Gronlier, Gaia-X (Participant)
Ms Karolina Mojzesowicz, EC DG Justice (Participant)
Dr. Andrea Bertolini, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Participant)
Pilar Sala, MYSPHERA (Participant)
Mr. Nicola Bernardi, Federprivacy (Participant)
Evangelos Ouzounis, ENISA (Participant)
Sara Testa, Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Participant)
Isabel Hahn, European Data Protection Supervisor (Participant)
Luis Carrascal, Inetum (Participant)
Olav Lysne, Simula Metropolian CDE (Participant)
Veronica Jarnskjold Buer, Norwegian Data Protection Authority (Participant)
Dr. Liming Zhu, CSIRO (Participant)
Owe Langfeldt, EC DG Justice (Participant)
Alison Howard, Microsoft (Participant)
Kenneth Harris, United States Department of Justice (Participant)
Matteo Melideo (Participant)
Alexander Mense (Participant)
Ms. Nairane Rabelo Leitão, ANPD (Participant)
Griff Ferris, Fair Trials (Participant)
Ms. Catherine Jasserand, KU Leuven CiTiP (Participant)
Gianluigi Marino, Osborne Clarke (Participant)
Francesca Sallicati, TREE TECHNOLOGY (Participant)
Caroline Goemans-Dorny, INTERPOL (Participant)
Mr Willy Fabritius, SGS (Participant)
Dr Hielke Hijmans, Belgian Data Protection Authority (Participant)
Mr Shawn Jensen, Profila (Participant)
Alessandro Ortalda, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Participant)
Dr. Sandro Lovisa, SAP SE (Participant)
Dominik Schwarz, SAP SE (Participant)
Lukas Helminger, TACEO (Participant)
Marc Kaplan, VeriQloud (Participant)
Peter Fleischer, Google (Participant)
Pietro Randine, Norwegian Centre for E-health Research (Participant)
Cristina Melero, Medtronic Ibérica S.A. (Participant)
Dr Yomna Abdelrahman, Bundeswehr University Munich (Participant)
Supriya Sreekant Adhatarao, Inria - Grenoble - France (Participant)
Sven Albrecht, Chemnitz University of Technology (Participant)
Lauren L. Bernick, United States Office of the Director of National Intelligence (Participant)
Peter Broennimann, State Secretariat for Education (Participant)
Manuel Cheminod, CNR-IEIIT (Participant)
Nasreen Djouini, U.S. Department of Commerce (Participant)
Mr Peter Eberl, European Commission (Participant)
Helena Koning, Mastercard (Participant)
Dr Eugenio Gaeta, UPM/IDEA4RC (Participant)
Alain Herrmann, National Comission for Data Protection (CNPD) (Participant)
Juanjo Hierro, FIWARE Foundation e.V. (Participant)
Romeo Kadir, Association Data Protection Professionals Europe (ADPPRO) (Participant)
Nicholas Martin, Fraunhofer Institute (Participant)
Franco Mercalli, MultiMed Engineers (Speaker)
Stea Miteva, UDG (Participant)
Ms Marie-Laurence Navarri (Participant)
Christoph Bausewein, CrowdStrike | EFDPO | BvD (Participant)
Mr Marta Staccioli, Google Italy S.r.l. (Participant)
Silvia Vidor, University of Trento (Participant)
Lipsarani Sahoo, University of North Carolina (Participant)
Arianna Rossi, SNT - University of Luxembourg (Participant)
Ms Annalisa Trama, IDEA4RC (Participant)
Otto Bruun, SERI (Participant)
Giada Galasso, University of Foggia (Participant)
Gerd Brost, Fraunhofer AISEC (Participant)
Santa Margherita - Auditorium
Panel
Prof Leandro Pecchia, UniRoma (Speaker)
Alain Herrmann, National Comission for Data Protection (CNPD) (Speaker)
Isabel Hahn, European Data Protection Supervisor (Moderator)
Owe Langfeldt, EC DG Justice (Speaker)
Ms Andrea Jelinek, EDPB / DSB (Speaker)
Santa Margherita - Auditorium
Panel
Mr Nino Tlapak, DORDA (Speaker)
Ms Karolina Mackiewicz, European Connected Health Alliance (Speaker)
Prof Leandro Pecchia, UniRoma (Moderator)
Ms Selina Zipponi, Dedalus Group (Speaker)