Francesca D. Faraci-Herrchen is the founder and leader of the Biomedical Signal Processing (BSP) Group, at the Institute Institute for Digital Technologies for Personalized Healthcare (MeDiTech), part of the Department of Innovative Techology in SUPSI University (Lugano, Switzerland).
After a Laurea in Physics (University of Genova, IT ) and a PhD in Electronics (University of York,UK) she completed a Post-doc at University of Coimbra (Portugal), in the frame of the MyHeart Project. Then she spent two years at ETHZ (first in Zurich then in DBSSE Basel). She moved to SUPSI in 2009, where she is involved in both teaching and research.
Her research strategy focuses on advancing data-driven biomedical, integrating AI together with the traditional biomedical signal processing. She pursues multimodal modeling to exploit heterogeneous medical data — subjective, objective and contextual data — enabling a more complete and information-preserving representation of patient health.
She presently investigates foundation models and self-supervised learning frameworks to build scalable, generalizable AI systems tailored to biomedical contexts, reducing reliance on labeled data while improving robustness and transferability across tasks.
She is interested in developing biomedical digital twins: dynamic, interactive computational models that combine real and synthetic physiological signals to characterize disease progression, simulate clinical interventions, and support personalized therapeutic decision-making.
Together, these efforts aim to bridge machine learning innovation with clinically meaningful impact, accelerating precision medicine and next-generation healthcare technologies.
Presently her research has three application : neuroscience, cardiology and lifestyle.
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