Raffaele Gravina

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Raffaele Gravina received the PhD degree in computer engineering from the University of Calabria, Italy, in 2012. He is the main designer of the SPINE Framework and responsible for the open-source contributions. He spent two years as researcher at the Telecom Italia WSN Lab at Berkeley, California. He is Unical’s PI of the RIA Horizon Europe Project MLSysOps, national coordinator of the PRIN 2022 COCOWEARS. He has been involved in several otehr research projects on WSNs, including H2020 Inter-IoT, AD-PERSONAS, BodyCloud, MAPS and the REWSN Cluster of FP7 CONET. He is co-founder of SenSysCal S.r.l. and Talent Garden Cosenza S.r.l. He is IEEE Senior Member.

He is author of more than 160 papers in international journals, conferences, and book chapters.

He is currently serving as Associate Professor of Computer Engineering at the University of Calabria, Italy.

He is part of the University of Calabria’s governance (2025-2031), with the role of Rector’s Delegate for the Academic Rankings.

His research interests are focused on high-level programming methods for Wearable Computing Systems, Edge-Cloud continuum, Digital Twins, and the Internet-of-Things.

Currently, his research is devoted to:

  • Wearable Computing Systems;
  • Edge-Cloud continuum;
  • Digital Twins;
  • high-level programming methodologies and frameworks for Wireless Body Sensor Networks (WBSNs);
  • Collaborative Body Sensor Networks;
  • Body Sensor Networks – Cloud Computing integration;
  • pattern recognition and knowledge discovery algorithms on physiological signals;
  • compressing sensing techniques for physiological signals;
  • human activity recognition and motor rehabilitation assistance based on wearable motion sensors;
  • ECG analysis for cardiac monitoring and emotion detection;
  • Interoperability on the Internet-of-Things.

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