Alessandra Pedrocchi
Alessandra Laura Giulia Pedrocchi, PhD in Bioengineering, is Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the Informatics and Bioengineering Department of Politecnico di Milano, POLIMI. She received post-doctoral training from the Bioengineering Center (Fondazione Don C. Gnocchi IRCCS ONLUS and POLIMI) and from POLIMI. In 2017, she was a Visiting Professor at the University of Southern California.
Since 2004, she has been teaching at the Graduate School of Biomedical Engineering at the POLIMI of Neuroengineering. She is the director of the master Rehabtech (https://www.rehabtech.polimi.it). She is one of the founders of the NeuroEngineering and Medical Robotics laboratory.
Alessandra’s research interest is neuroengineering, including biomechanics in motor control, neurorobotics, brain modelling, design of new technologies for neurorehabilitation, the study of the correlation between brain plasticity and functional recovery, and explainable trustworthy artificial intelligence models to support clinical decisions, especially in medical oncology and Cancer research.
She is one of the scientific PIs of POLIMINT, the Joint Research Center of POLIMI, and the National Cancer Institute (Fondazione Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, IRCCS- INT), and she co-founded the European Society for AI in Cancer research, ESAC. She is co-founder and scientific advisor of 2 start-up companies, Agade s.r.l. and AllyArm s.r.l.