Source: Interfolio F180


Giorgio Quer, PhD

Assistant Professor of Digital Medicine
Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology


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Research Focus

Projects in digital medicine spanning from a prospective study for the detection of COVID-19 using wearable devices (Digital Engagement & Tracking for Early Control & Treatment, DETECT, with 40,000 participants) to the retrospective analysis of large (100,000+ individuals) datasets of wearable sensor data (single-lead ECG patches, smartwatches, and other portable devices). As the Director of Artificial Intelligence, I lead the analysis and algorithm developments in these studies.

Education

Ph.D., Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy (2008 – 11)
MicroMBA, Rady School of Management, University of California San Diego (2018)
M.S., Telecommunications Engineering, University of Padova, Italy (2005 – 07)
B.S., Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy (2002 – 05)

Professional Experience

Research Scientist, Scripps Research Translational Institute (2017 – now)

Precision Medicine Initiative: direct volunteers’ enrolment and engagement.

Artificial Intelligence in Digital Medicine.

Data Analytics: analysis of big data from wearable sensors.

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of California, San Diego (2011 – 2016)

Wireless networking: design and testing of novel network architectures.

Physiological signals analysis: real-time health systems.

Visiting Researcher, UC San Diego (2010) and University of Oulu, Finland (2007)

Awards & Professional Activities

  • 2018, 2020, 2022: “IEEE Distinguished Lecturer,” for the IEEE Communication Society (three appointments).
  • 2016 “IEEE Senior Membership,” an honour bestowed only to those who have made significant contributions to the profession (top 9% of IEEE members).
  • 2015 “IEEE Communications Letters Reviewer Appreciation Program” (exemplary reviewer, less than 3% of all reviewers in 2014) awarded by George K. Karagiannidis, Editor-in-Chief.
  • 2012 Calit2 Strategic Research Opportunities Program 2012, UC San Diego.
  • 2010 (6 months), Research Fellowship (Visiting Researcher) from UC San Diego.
  • 2009 (Jun.), Travel Grant from University College of London for attending the Machine Learning Summer School 2009 at the University of Chicago.
  • 2008 (3 years), PhD Fellowship from the Italian Ministry of University and Research (MIUR).
  • 2007 (6 months), Erasmus Grant (EU Lifelong Learning Programme), University of Oulu, Finland.
  • 2001 “Complexity and Multiplicity of Thoughts and Knowledge”, Prize to participate to summer courses organized by Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italy.