Elisa Donati

Position:	Group Leader
Email:	elisa@ini.uzh.ch
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Home page:	http://www.edonati.com

I joined INI in January 2017 as a postdoc in the Neuromorphic Cognitive Systems group. Since May 2024, I have been a group leader at INI, focusing on closed-loop neuromorphic systems. Additionally, I serve as a group leader at ZNZ, the Neuroscience Center Zurich. I graduated in biomedical engineering from the University of Pisa, Italy, and earned my PhD in Bioinspired Robotics from the Institute of BioRobotics, School of Advanced Studies in Pisa, Italy. During my studies, I focused on understanding how to develop artificial living technologies with computational capabilities similar to animals. At INI, my research interests include designing, simulating, and validating sub-threshold VLSI circuits for biomedical applications, specifically to develop closed-loop wearable devices capable of efficiently interacting with the nervous system. Robotics remains a passion of mine, and I continue to work on building closed embedded systems.

Teaching

227-0085-09 Projects & Seminars: Spiking Neural Network on Neuromorphic processors

INI-508, 227-1048-00 Neuromorphic Intelligence

Publications

2024

Elisa Donati and Giacomo Valle Neuromorphic hardware for somatosensory neuroprostheses, Nature Communications volume , 2024
Marcello Zanghieri, Pierangelo Maria Rapa, Mattia Orlandi, Elisa Donati, Luca Benini, Simone Benatti sEMG-driven Hand Dynamics Estimation with Incremental Online Learning on a Parallel Ultra-Low-Power Microcontroller, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 2024
Marcello Zanghieri, Pierangelo Maria Rapa, Mattia Orlandi, Elisa Donati, Luca Benini, Simone Benatti Event-based Estimation of Hand Forces from High-Density Surface EMG on a Parallel Ultra-Low-Power Microcontroller, IEEE Sensors Journal, 2024

2023

Donati, Elisa and Benatti, Simone and Ceolini, Enea and Indiveri, Giacomo Long-Term Stable Electromyography Classification Using Canonical Correlation Analysis, 2023 11th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER), 2023
Elisa Donati, Giacomo Indiveri Neuromorphic bioelectronic medicine for nervous system interfaces: from neural computational primitives to medical applications, Progress in Biomedical Engineering, 2023
Elisa Donati, Giacomo Indiveri Neuromorphic bioelectronic medicine for nervous system interfaces: from neural computational primitives to medical applications, Progress in Biomedical Engineering, 2023
Marcello Zanghieri; Simone Benatti; Luca Benini; Elisa Donati Event-based Low-Power and Low-Latency Regression Method for Hand Kinematics from Surface EMG, 2023 9th International Workshop on Advances in Sensors and Interfaces (IWASI), 2023
M Zanghieri, M Orlandi, E Donati, E Gruppioni, L Benini, S Benatti Online unsupervised arm posture adaptation for sEMG-based gesture recognition on a parallel ultra-low-power microcontroller, 2023 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), 2023
Rachel Sava, Elisa Donati, Giacomo Indiveri Feed-forward and recurrent inhibition for compressing and classifying high dynamic range biosignals in spiking neural network architectures, 2023 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), 2023
Simone Tanzarella, Massimiliano Iacono, Elisa Donati, Dario Farina, Chiara Bartolozzi Neuromorphic Decoding of Spinal Motor Neuron Behaviour during Natural Hand Movements for a New Generation of Wearable Neural Interfaces, IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering, 2023
Zhao, Jingyue and Monforte, Marco and Indiveri, Giacomo and Bartolozzi, Chiara and Donati, Elisa Learning inverse kinematics using neural computational primitives on neuromorphic hardware, npj Robotics, 2023

2022

Bartolozzi, Chiara, Giacomo Indiveri, and Elisa Donati Embodied neuromorphic intelligence, Nature communications, 13:(1) 1-14, 2022
Dennis V Christensen, Regina Dittmann, Bernabé Linares-Barranco, Abu Sebastian, Manuel Le Gallo, Andrea Redaelli, Stefan Slesazeck, Thomas Mikolajick, Sabina Spiga, Stephan Menzel, Ilia Valov, Gianluca Milano, Carlo Ricciardi, Shi-Jun Liang, Feng Miao, Mario Lanza, Tyler J Quill, Scott T Keene, Alberto Salleo, Julie Grollier, Danijela Marković, Alice Mizrahi, Peng Yao, J Joshua Yang, Giacomo Indiveri, John Paul Strachan, Suman Datta, Elisa Vianello, Alexandre Valentian, Johannes Feldmann, Xuan Li, Wolfram HP Pernice, Harish Bhaskaran, Emre Neftci, Srikanth Ramaswamy, Jonathan Tapson, Franz Scherr, Wolfgang Maass, Priyadarshini Panda, Youngeun Kim, Gouhei Tanaka, Simon Thorpe, Chiara Bartolozzi, Thomas A Cleland, Christoph Posch, Shih-Chii Liu, Arnab Neelim Mazumder, Morteza Hosseini, Tinoosh Mohsenin, Elisa Donati, Silvia Tolu, Roberto Galeazzi, Martin Ejsing Christensen, Sune Holm, Daniele Ielmini, N Pryds 2022 roadmap on neuromorphic computing and engineering, Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering, 2022
Gerber, Stefan, Marc Steiner, Giacomo Indiveri, and Elisa Donati Neuromorphic implementation of ECG anomaly detection using delay chains, 2022 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), 369-373, 2022
Hosseini, Mohammad Javad Mirshojaeian, Yi Yang, Aidan J. Prendergast, Elisa Donati, Miad Faezipour, Giacomo Indiveri, and Robert A. Nawrocki An organic synaptic circuit: toward flexible and biocompatible organic neuromorphic processing, Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering , 2:(3), 2022
Orlandi, Mattia, Marcello Zanghieri, Davide Schiavone, Elisa Donati, Francesco Conti, and Simone Benatti Motor-Unit Ordering of Blindly-Separated Surface-EMG Signals for Gesture Recognition, Advances in System-Integrated Intelligence: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on System-Integrated Intelligence (SysInt 2022) 518-529, 2022
Vitale, Antonio, Elisa Donati, Roger Germann, and Michele Magno Neuromorphic Edge Computing for Biomedical Applications: Gesture Classification Using EMG Signals, IEEE Sensors Journa, 22:(20), 2022

2021

Covi, Erika, Elisa Donati, Hadi Heidari, David Kappel, Xiangpeng Liang, Melika Payvand, and Wei Wang Adaptive Extreme Edge Computing for Wearable Devices, Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021
Elisa Donati, Giacomo Indiveri Silicon neuron with programmable ion channel kinematics for bioelectronic applications, 2021 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS), 2021
Elisa Donati, Renate Krause, and Giacomo Indiveri Neuromorphic Pattern Generation Circuits for Bioelectronic Medicine, 10th International IEEE/EMBS Conference on Neural Engineering (NER), 2021
Melika Payvand, Elisa Donati, Giacomo Indiveri NEUROTECH - A European Community of Experts on Neuromorphic Technologies, Brain-inspired Computing, 2021
Mohammad Javad Mirshojaeian Hosseini, Elisa Donati, Giacomo Indiveri, Robert A Nawrocki Organic Log‐Domain Integrator Synapse, Advanced Electronic Materials, 2021
Mohammad Javad Mirshojaeian Hosseini, Elisa Donati, Tomoyuki Yokota, Sunghoon Lee, Giacomo Indiveri, Takao Someya, Robert A Nawrocki Organic electronics Axon-Hillock neuromorphic circuit: towards biologically compatible, and physically flexible, integrate-and-fire spiking neural networks, Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 54:(10) 104004, 2021

2020

Enea Ceolini, Charlotte Frenkel, Sumit Bam Shrestha, Gemma Taverni, Lyes Khacef, Melika Payvand, Elisa Donati Hand-gesture recognition based on EMG and event-based camera sensor fusion: a benchmark in neuromorphic computing, Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2020 pdf
Jingyue Zhao, Elisa Donati, and Giacomo Indiveri Neuromorphic Implementation of Spiking Relational Neural Network for Motor Control, 2020 2nd IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS), 2020
Jingyue Zhao, Nicoletta Risi, Marco Monforte, Chiara Bartolozzi, Giacomo Indiveri, and Elisa Donati Closed-Loop Spiking Control on a Neuromorphic Processor Implemented on the iCub, IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, 10:(4) 546 - 556, 2020
Ma, Yongqiang, Badong Chen, Pengju Ren, Nanning Zheng, Giacomo Indiveri, and Elisa Donati EMG-Based Gestures Classification Using a Mixed-Signal Neuromorphic Processing System, IEEE Journal on Emerging and Selected Topics in Circuits and Systems, 4: 578-587, 2020
Ma, Yongqiang, Elisa Donati, Badong Chen, Pengju Ren, Nanning Zheng, and Giacomo Indiveri. Neuromorphic Implementation of a Recurrent Neural Network for EMG Classification, 2nd IEEE International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS) 69-73, 2020
Mostafa Rahimiazghadi, Corey Lammie, Jason Kamran Eshraghian, Melika Payvand, Elisa Donati, Bernabe Linares-Barranco, Giacomo Indiveri Hardware Implementation of Deep Network Accelerators Towards Healthcare and Biomedical Applications, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 2020
Mostafa Rahimiazghadi, Corey Lammie, Jason Kamran Eshraghian, Melika Payvand, Elisa Donati, Bernabe Linares-Barranco, Giacomo Indiveri Hardware Implementation of Deep Network Accelerators Towards Healthcare and Biomedical Applications, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems, 2020
Nicoletta Risi, Alessandro Aimar, Elisa Donati, Sergio Solinas, Giacomo Indiveri A Spike-Based Neuromorphic Architecture of Stereo Vision, Frontiers in Neurorobotics, 2020

2019

Elisa Donati, Melika Payvand, Nicoletta Risi, Renate Krause, Giacomo Indiveri Discrimination of EMG Signals Using a Neuromorphic Implementation of a Spiking Neural Network, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Circuits and Systems , 13:(5), 2019
Enea Ceolini, Gemma Taverni, Lyes Khacef, Melika Payvand, Elisa Donati Sensor fusion using EMG and vision for hand gesture classification in mobile applications, 2019 IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference (BioCAS) 1-4, 2019
Kamal Abu-Hassan, Joseph D Taylor, Paul G Morris, Elisa Donati, Zuner A Bortolotto, Giacomo Indiveri, Julian FR Paton, Alain Nogaret Optimal solid state neurons, Nature Communications, 10:(1) 1-13, 2019
Nicoletta Risi, Alessandro Aimar, Elisa Donati, Sergio Solinas, Giacomo Indiveri A spike-based neuromorphic stereo architecture for active vision, Proceedings of ROBUST ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE FOR NEUROROBOTICS, University of Edinburgh (26 – 28 August 2019), 2019
Xiaojuan Mo, Wenjie Ge, Donato Romano, Elisa Donati, Giovanni Benelli, Paolo Dario, Cesare Stefanini Modelling jumping in Locusta migratoria and the influence of substrate roughness, Entomologia Generalis 317-332, 2019

2018

Donato Romano, Elisa Donati, Giovanni Benelli, Cesare Stefanini A review on animal–robot interaction: from bio-hybrid organisms to mixed societies, Biological Cybernetics 1-25, 2018
E. Donati, K. A. Hassan, A. Nogaret and G. Indiveri Deriving optimal silicon neuron circuit specifications using Data Assimilation, 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS), 2018
Elisa Donati, Fernando Perez-Pefia, Chiara Bartolozzi, Giacomo Indiveri, Elisabetta Chicca Open-loop neuromorphic controller implemented on vlsi devices, 2018 7th IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (Biorob) 827-832, 2018
Elisa Donati, Melika Payvand, Nicoletta Risi, Renate Krause, Karla Burelo, Thomas Dalgaty, and Elisa Vianello, Giacomo Indiveri Processing EMG signals using reservoir computing on an event-based neuromorphic system, IEEE Biomedical Circuits and Systems Conference(BioCAS), 2018

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