Profile
Position: Professore Associato
Unit: Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell'Informazione
Scientific-disciplinary sector: Bioingegneria IBIO-01/A
Gaetano Valenza, M.Eng., Ph.D., is currently an Associate Professor of Bioengineering at the University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy, and head of the Neurocardiovascular Intelligence Lab.
In 2011, he joined the Neuro-Cardiovascular Signal Processing unit within the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. In 2013, he received the Ph.D. degree in Automation, Robotics, and Bioengineering from the University of Pisa and, in the same year, was appointed as a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School/ Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA.
His research interests include statistical and nonlinear biomedical signal and image processing, cardiovascular and neural modeling, physiologically-interpretable artificial intelligence systems, and wearable systems for physiological monitoring. Applications of his research include the assessment of autonomic nervous system activity on cardiovascular control, brain-heart interactions, affective computing, assessment of mood and mental/neurological disorders. He is author of more than 300 international scientific contributions in these fields published in peer-reviewed international journals, conference proceedings, books and book chapters, and is official reviewer of several international scientific journals.
Dr. Valenza is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Biomedical Signal Processing.
In 2011, he joined the Neuro-Cardiovascular Signal Processing unit within the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA. In 2013, he received the Ph.D. degree in Automation, Robotics, and Bioengineering from the University of Pisa and, in the same year, was appointed as a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School/ Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA.
His research interests include statistical and nonlinear biomedical signal and image processing, cardiovascular and neural modeling, physiologically-interpretable artificial intelligence systems, and wearable systems for physiological monitoring. Applications of his research include the assessment of autonomic nervous system activity on cardiovascular control, brain-heart interactions, affective computing, assessment of mood and mental/neurological disorders. He is author of more than 300 international scientific contributions in these fields published in peer-reviewed international journals, conference proceedings, books and book chapters, and is official reviewer of several international scientific journals.
Dr. Valenza is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Biomedical Signal Processing.
Teaching
Teaching activity
Teaching responsibility for modules/courses
- Advanced image processing (modulo dell'insegnamento integrative cerebral function and image processing cod. 002mi) per Laurea Magistrale in Bionics engineering
- Probability and biostatistics (cod. 1127I) per Laurea Magistrale in Bionics engineering
Insegnamenti condivisi/mutuati:- Probability and biostatistics (cod. 1107I) - Laurea Magistrale in Biotechnologies and applied artificial intelligence for health
- Apparecchiature medicali per la radiodiagnostica (modulo dell'insegnamento scienze umane e del management sanitario cod. 008if) per Laurea in Tecniche di radiologia medica, per immagini e radioterapia (abilitante alla professione sanitaria di tecnico di radiologia medica)
- Biostatistica (cod. 130PP) per Laurea in Ingegneria biomedica
Student consultation hours
Mode of office hours: Martedì 11.00-13.00 Prenotazione via email obbligatoria
Research
Publications
- Emotional Blunting and Time Estimation in Depression (Mura, F.; Catrambone, V.; Valenza, G.; Van Wassenhove, V.; Mioni, G.; Gentili, C. - 2026 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Building neural networks’ latent space to extract instance-based explanations for sleep staging (Gagliardi, Guido; Alfeo, Antonio Luca; Cimino, Mario G. C. A.; Valenza, Gaetano; De Vos, Maarten - 2025 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)
- Cardiovascular Activity Predominantly Modulates Brain Dynamics in Non-REM Sleep Transitions (Catrambone, V.; Faraguna, U.; Valenza, G. - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Impaired Functional Brain–Heart Interplay Sustains Depressive Symptomatology (Catrambone, V.; Mura, F.; Patron, E.; Gentili, C.; Valenza, G. - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- A Comparative Analysis of Cardiac Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Activity in Sleep Using Linear and Nonlinear Indices (Matic, Z.; Catrambone, V.; Barbieri, R.; Valenza, G. - 2025 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)
- Investigating the Relationship Between Aperiodic Components of Electroencephalographic and Heartbeat Dynamics (Catrambone, V.; Cairo, B.; Bari, V.; Singh, P.; Porta, A.; Valenza, G. - 2025 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)
- Characterization of the Fast Interactions Between Mean Cerebral Blood Flow and Brain Activity in Healthy Subjects (Cairo, B.; Catrambone, V.; Bari, V.; Singh, P.; De Maria, B.; Valenza, G.; Porta, A. - 2025 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)
- Defining Functional Brain-Heart Interplay Synergies: A Feasibility Study (Catrambone, V.; Valenza, G. - 2025 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)
- Comparing a cardiac sympathetic activity index with pre-ejection period in time series (Nackley, B.; Valenza, G.; Barbieri, R.; Friedman, B. H. - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)
- Distinctive regional patterns of dynamic neural noise in cortical activity (Scarciglia, A.; Magliaro, C.; Catrambone, V.; Bonanno, C.; Ahluwalia, A.; Valenza, G. - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)