Speaker: Laura Ginestretti
15 Maggio 2026 | 11:30
DEIB - NECSTLab Meeting Room (Ed. 20)
Online by Zoom
Contatti: Prof. Marco Santambrogio
Sommario
On Friday, May 15th, 2026, we will have a new talk for the series #NECSTFridayTalk.During this talk, we will have, as speaker, Laura Ginestretti, PhD student at Humanitas University.
This research addresses the fundamental challenge of transitioning the monitoring of human mental states, encompassing cognitive performance, stress, and emotions, from controlled clinical settings to the complexity of daily life. By leveraging consumer-grade wearables, we propose an explainable multimodal framework that integrates heterogeneous physiological and behavioral data, such as heart rate, respiration, sleep patterns, and physical activity, with individual demographic profiles. Departing from traditional population-level averages, the core of this work treats cognitive performance as a personalized regression task centered on individual baselines.
The scope of the research further extends to stress and emotion recognition: by utilizing foundation models such as NormWear for feature extraction, we have observed significant performance gains in downstream regression tasks for stress prediction from wearable data. To provide a robust ground-truth benchmark, the next phase of this research will integrate EEG data to validate the precision of wearable-derived features.
The ultimate vision is to develop an adaptive cognitive enhancement system capable of translating raw physiological signals into personalized, actionable guidance, for scalable and data-driven mental health management in real-world environments.
The NECSTLab is a DEIB laboratory, with different research lines on advanced topics in computing systems: from architectural characteristics, to hardware-software codesign methodologies, to security and dependability issues of complex system architectures.
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