On December 16th, 2024 at 10.30 am the seminar titeld "Integrated Sensing, Localization, and Communications in the Computing Continuum" will take place at DEIB Carlo Erba Room (Building 7).

The integration of sensing, localization, and communication is attracting a fervent research activity and will result in a myriad of contextual data that, if properly processed, may enable a better understanding of local and global phenomena while increasing the quality, security, and efficiency of our ecosystems. The computing continuum offers a timely and unique solution for processing such a massive volume of sensed data, as it provides virtually unlimited and widely distributed computing resources. Nevertheless, the deployment of data analysis at the edge or in the cloud has many implications regarding latency, privacy, security, and integrity. This requires overcoming the paradigmatic accuracy-complexity trade-off that has driven distributed inference for decades, leading to a paradigm shift that encompasses multi-level performance indicators beyond accuracy, including latency, integrity, privacy, and security aspects and how these impact the confidence on the inferred phenomena.

Stefania Bartoletti received the Ph.D. degree in Engineering Science–Information Engineering and the Laurea degree (Summa Cum Laude) in Electronics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Ferrara, in 2015 and 2011, respectively. She is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Electronic Engineering of the University of Rome, Tor Vergata, where she is also coordinating the ERC Starting Grant FIND-OUT (2023–2028). From 2019 to 2022 she was a researcher at the Institute of Electronics, Computer and Telecommunication Engineering of the National Research Council of Italy (IEIIT-CNR). She has been a Marie-Skłodowska Curie Global Fellow (MSCA-IF-GF, Horizon 2020) at the Wireless Information & Network Science Laboratory of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the University of Ferrara (2016–2019). She was a Visiting Ph.D. Student at the Laboratory for Information & Decision Systems at MIT (2013–2014). Her research interests include theory and experimentation of statistical signal processing for wireless communication systems, with a particular focus on sensing and localization aspects and vehicular communications. Dr. Bartoletti was awarded an ERC starting grant (2023), the Best Ph.D. Thesis Award in the field of Communication Technologies from the Italian Telecommunications and Information Theory Group (2015) and the Paul Baran Young Scholar Award of the Marconi Society (2016). She is Associate Editor of the IEEE Communications Letters. She served as Chair of the Technical Program Committee (TPC) for several IEEE ICC and Globecom Workshops. Dr. Bartoletti is currently serving as Chair of the Young Scholars and Board Member of the Marconi Society.