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I started my studies at Politecnico di Milano, Italy, where I received my BSc in July 2017 and MSc in December 2019 (first-class honours) in Biomedical Engineering. I received the MSc in Bioengineering in August 2019 from the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC), where I spent almost one year during the double degree programme between Politecnico Di Milano and UIC. During this period, I developed part of the MSc thesis ‘Improvement of Psychomotor Skills Development for Veress Needle Insertion using Haptics and Virtual Reality’, collaborating with the Mixed Reality Lab and the Urology Lab of the Innovation Center. At UIC, I was a Teaching Assistant (Department of Bioengineering) for the BSc ‘Biological Systems Analysis’ course.
From 2017 to 2019, I was a student at the Alta Scuola Politecnica (ASP), founded by Politecnico di Milano and Politecnico di Torino in 2004 to provide society with high-profile graduates with skills that are needed to work in a truly multidisciplinary environment; it is a double degree programme restricted to 150 talented students who had been selected solely on the basis of merit.
From March to September 2020, I was a Graduate Research Intern at the Neuroengineering and Medical Robotics Laboratory (NEARLab) of Politecnico di Milano; I worked on the simulation of brain deformations during keyhole neurosurgery within the European project EDEN2020 and on robot-assisted palpation with haptic feedback.
I joined the Surgical Robot Vision Group at the end of September 2020 to start a PhD in Computer Science at University College London (UCL). My research focuses on the use of reinforcement learning as an approach for automation of surgical tasks and for surgical path planning and navigation in robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery.
