Prof Valentina Donzella
SMIEEE, SFHEA, PhD, MSc (Eng), BSc (Eng)
Professor in Sensors and Peception for Intelligent Systems
Head of SPRING group (Sensing and PeRception for INtelliGent Systems)
SEMS Research Excellence Framework Research Culture Lead
Engineering 218, Mile End
| Expertise: |
I am an Electronic Engineer with an in depth research knowledge on Silicon Photonics and optical sensing with applications in Intelligent Systems. My areas of expertise are summarised below. 1. Adverse weather/environmental conditions noise models for perception sensors - Creating and validating physics based adverse weather noise models for RADAR, LiDAR, camera, thermal, etc. - Different types of noise models (statistical, physics-based, AI based) 2. Perception Sensors - data quality evaluation - Real-time data integrity monitoring framework. - Metrics to evaluate and quantify the quality of sensor data. 3. Machine learning based perception and fusion - Understanding feature extraction in deep neural networks. - Processing of raw sensor data. 4. Data compression/reduction, sustainability of data - Camera, LiDAR, Raw Data, Intelligent data reduction, Semantic aware compression. 5. Digital Twins - Data collection and linking tests to simulation. - Digital twins including validated sensor models (LiDAR/RADAR). |
| Affiliations: |
AESIN Lead of the Sensors Special Interest Group Senior Member of IEEE Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy EPSRC College Member |
Brief Biography
Valentina completed her Ph.D. (with honours) in Innovative Technologies for Communication and Information Engineering from Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (Pisa, Italy), the top University in Italy (Times Higher Education ranking). Then, she was a postdoctoral researcher and then MITACS fellow in the ECE Department at the University of British Columbia (Vancouver (BC), Canada), working on integrated optical sensors on Silicon Photonics chips in one of the world leading groups for Silicon Photonics. Before joining QMUL, she was the head of the Intelligent Vehicles Group at WMG, and she designed and launched the Smart Connected and Autonomous Vehicles MSc.