Biography

I am a biomedical engineer with PhD in computational neuroscience and strong experience (10+ years) in neural modelling and medical data.

My scientific production presently includes more than 50 publications (among them 25 on international journals and 3 on international books). Furthermore, I am active as speaker in international scientific events and as reviewer for journals and books.

My research activity is focused on simulation of brain functions by neural networks. I performed research studies on the assessment of cortical connectivity among different brain areas during cognitive or motor tasks using neural mass models. I worked on neural network models for the study of the multisensory representation of peripersonal space and on networks of spiking neurons for the study of cerebral activity during a word recognition task.

In the last 10 years I worked on brain lesion analysis with game theory approach.

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Selected Publications

• Ioannis Xygonakis, Riccardo Seganfreddo, Mazin Hamad, Samuel Schneider, Axel Schröder, Sandro M. Krieg, Bernhard Meyer, Lorenzo Chiari, Melissa Zavaglia, Sami Haddadin, Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Robotic Assistant: towards a fully automated stimulation session, 2024. [Project Page]
• Diego Hidalgo-Carvajal, Hanzhi Chen, Gemma Carolina Bettelani, Jaesug Jung, Melissa Zavaglia, Laura Busse, Abdeldjallil Naceri, Stefan Leutenegger, Sami Haddadin, Anthropomorphic Grasping With Neural Object Shape Completion, 2023. [Project Page]
• Viktorija Dimova-Edeleva, Oscar Soto Rivera, Riddhiman Laha, Luis F. C. Figueredo, Melissa Zavaglia, Sami Haddadin, Error-related Potentials in a Virtual Pick-and-Place Experiment: Toward Real-world Shared-control, 2023. [Project Page]
• Ioannis Xygonakis, Melissa Zavaglia, Sami Haddadin, Robust Independent Component Analysis based EMG decomposition - a comparison study, 2023. [Project Page]