Elisa Donati

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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

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

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
  • 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