Hi! I'm Lidia

I'm a Ph.D. student at Università della Svizzera Italiana (Lugano, Switzerland).

Who I am

I took a Master's degree in Informatics at Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI) and Università Milano-Bicocca in 2021 with a Double Degree Program. As a Ph.D. student at USI since October 2021, my expertise lies in wearable computing and its potential to improve human well-being. In particular, my research focuses on addressing the challenge of inter-personal variability by integrating both generalized and personalized approaches.

Projects

Transformer

A Transformer encoder-decoder model to solve mathematical problems.

Convolutional neural network

A Convolutional neural network for image classification (CIFAR-10).

LSTM model

An LSTM language model for predicting fables using PyTorch.

Spreading Tweet News Project

Spreading tweet news simulation, case study of Giuseppe Conte followers network.

Iterative Methods

Solve symmetric and positive definite matrices.

Compress and decompress Images

Implementation of the algorithm DCT2 and IDCT2 in R.

Publications

Enhancing XGBoost with Heuristic Smoothing for Transportation Mode and Activity Recognition


Lidia Alecci, Leonardo Alchieri, Nouran Abdalazim, Pietro Barbiero, Silvia Santini, and Martin Gjoreski. 2023. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing & the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing (UbiComp/ISWC '23 Adjunct). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 540‐545. https://doi.org/10.1145/3594739.3610752

Prediction of upper limb chorea severity using passive monitoring smartwatch motion sensor data in individuals with Huntington's disease


Lidia Alecci, Jonas Dorn, Florian Lipsmeier, Johannes Rennig, Atieh Bamdadian, Fiona Kinsella, Peter McColgan, Michael Lindemann, Edward J Wild and Cedric Simillion. 2023. CHDI 2023 Poster (Roche).

On the mismatch between measured and perceived sleep quality


Lidia Alecci, Nouran Abdalazim, Leonardo Alchieri, Shkurta Gashi, and Silvia Santini. 2022. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp/ISWC '22 Adjunct), September 11-15, 2022, Cambridge, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 7 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544793.3563412

Robust recognition of sleep behavior using wearable sensors


Lidia Alecci. 2021. Robust recognition of sleep behavior using wearable sensors. Master's Thesis. Università degli studi di Milano-Bicocca and Universtià della Svizzera italiana (USI).

Summer Schools

Mediterranean Machine Learning (M2L) Summer School 2023 by Deepmind (28 August - 1 September)


The M2L program covered diverse topics like self-supervised learning, neuroscience, diffusion models, graph neural networks, and natural language processing. It featured talks and hands-on lab sessions where we used Jax and Haiku.

FoMICS-DADSi Winter School on Cardiac Simulation (30 November-4 December 2020)


Winter School held at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI). Topics: Geometry Modeling and Mesh Generation of the Cardiac Geometry, Space-Time Approaches in Cardiac Electrophysiology, Electromechanics, Optimization and Inversion Problems Applied to Electrophysiology, Fluid-Structure Interaction and Heart Valves.

Human Factors In The Interaction With Portable And Wearable Technology (27-31 January 2020)


The course held by Milano-Bicocca University was designed to help participants understand and learn key concepts such as human-centered design, usability, gamestorming, and gamification.

iBicocca Gold (50 hours during 2020)


It's a course held at Milano-Bicocca University aimed at fostering the innovative and entrepreneurial abilities of students through dedicated activities and events.

Teaching Assistant

Computer Networking


Teaching Assistant for the Computer Networking course during the Spring Semesters of 2021 and 2022 at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI).
Tasks: design assignments, assess assignment submissions, hold exercises sessions, proctor and assess exams, mentor and assess group projects, attend lectures and hold office hours.

Introduction to Programming (Python)


Teaching Assistant for the Introduction to Programming (Python) course at Università della Svizzera italiana (USI) during the Autumn Semester 2023‐2024.
Tasks: hold exercises sessions, design exams, proctor and assess exams, hold office hours.