{"id":157836,"date":"2025-05-12T14:43:00","date_gmt":"2025-05-12T14:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/ateneo\/organizzazione\/persone\/gaetano-valenza-95977-en\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T04:59:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T02:59:00","slug":"gaetano-valenza-95977-en","status":"publish","type":"unipi_persone","link":"https:\/\/www.unipi.it\/en\/about-us\/organisation\/people\/gaetano-valenza-95977-en\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaetano Valenza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professore Associato &#8211; Dipartimento di Ingegneria dell&#8217;Informazione | Tel.: 050 2217074 &#8211; Email: gaetano.valenza@unipi.it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"unipi-persone-chiave":"95977","unipi-persone-nome":"Gaetano","unipi-persone-cognome":"Valenza","unipi-persone-email":"gaetano.valenza@unipi.it","unipi-persone-cv":"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.<br \/>\r\nIn 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. <br \/>\r\nHis 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.           <br \/>\r\nDr. Valenza is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and Chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Biomedical Signal Processing.","unipi-persone-link-esterno-cv":"http:\/\/www.centropiaggio.unipi.it\/~valenza","unipi-persone-modalita-ricevimento":"\r\nMarted\u00ec 11.00-13.00\r\nPrenotazione via email obbligatoria\r\n","unipi-persone-luogo-ricevimento":"","unipi-persone-ore-ricevimento":"","unipi-persone-telefono":"050 2217074","unipi-persone-sitoweb":"http:\/\/www.centropiaggio.unipi.it\/~valenza","unipi-persone-cariche":"","unipi-persone-link-orario-lezioni":"https:\/\/unipi.prod.up.cineca.it\/calendarioPubblico\/matricola=015095","unipi-persone-link-registro-lezioni":"https:\/\/unimap.unipi.it\/registri\/registri.php?ri=015095&tmplt=principale.tpl","unipi-persone-settore-scientifico":"Bioingegneria IBIO-01\/A","unipi-persone-ruolo":"Professore Associato","unipi-persone-arpi":"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/cris\/rp\/rp01231","unipi-persone-pubblicazioni":"<ul class=\"pubblicazioni-list\"><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1344277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Emotional Blunting and Time Estimation in Depression<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Mura, F.; Catrambone, V.; Valenza, G.; Van Wassenhove, V.; Mioni, G.; Gentili, C. - 2026 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1345547\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Building neural networks\u2019 latent space to extract instance-based explanations for sleep staging<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Gagliardi, Guido; Alfeo, Antonio Luca; Cimino, Mario G. C. A.; Valenza, Gaetano; De Vos, Maarten - 2025 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1344276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Cardiovascular Activity Predominantly Modulates Brain Dynamics in Non-REM Sleep Transitions<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Catrambone, V.; Faraguna, U.; Valenza, G. - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1344272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Impaired Functional Brain\u2013Heart Interplay Sustains Depressive Symptomatology<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Catrambone, V.; Mura, F.; Patron, E.; Gentili, C.; Valenza, G. - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1341593\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A Comparative Analysis of Cardiac Sympathetic and Parasympathetic Activity in Sleep Using Linear and Nonlinear Indices<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Matic, Z.; Catrambone, V.; Barbieri, R.; Valenza, G. - 2025 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1341592\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Investigating the Relationship Between Aperiodic Components of Electroencephalographic and Heartbeat Dynamics<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Catrambone, V.; Cairo, B.; Bari, V.; Singh, P.; Porta, A.; Valenza, G. - 2025 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1341591\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Characterization of the Fast Interactions Between Mean Cerebral Blood Flow and Brain Activity in Healthy Subjects<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Cairo, B.; Catrambone, V.; Bari, V.; Singh, P.; De Maria, B.; Valenza, G.; Porta, A. - 2025 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1341590\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Defining Functional Brain-Heart Interplay Synergies: A Feasibility Study<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Catrambone, V.; Valenza, G. - 2025 - 4.1 Contributo in Atti di convegno)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1341589\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Comparing a cardiac sympathetic activity index with pre-ejection period in time series<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Nackley, B.; Valenza, G.; Barbieri, R.; Friedman, B. H. - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1341588\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Distinctive regional patterns of dynamic neural noise in cortical activity<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Scarciglia, A.; Magliaro, C.; Catrambone, V.; Bonanno, C.; Ahluwalia, A.; Valenza, G. - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1341587\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Acceptability, Usability, and Insights Into Cybersickness Levels of a Novel Virtual Reality Environment for the Evaluation of Depressive Symptoms: Exploratory Observational Study<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Sutori, S.; Eliasson, E. T.; Mura, F.; Ortiz, V.; Catrambonephd, V.; Hadlaczky, G.; Todorov, I.; Alfeo, A. L.; Cardi, V.; Cimino, M. G. C. A.; Mioni, G.; Raya, M. A.; Valenza, G.; Carli, V.; Gentili, C. - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1341499\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Impaired Functional Brain\u2013Heart Interplay Sustains Depressive Symptomatology<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Catrambone, V.; Mura, F.; Patron, E.; Gentili, C.; Valenza, G. - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1341498\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Methodological Taxonomy for Functional Brain\u2013Heart Interplay Assessment: Creating a comprehensive taxonomy<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Catrambone, V.; Valenza, G. - 2025 - 1.1 Articolo in rivista)<\/span><\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/arpi.unipi.it\/handle\/11568\/1341497\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EEG-based motor imagery recognition via novel explainable ensemble learning architecture<\/a> <span class=\"pub-details\">(Alfeo, A. 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