International activities

Prof. Demi's conference organisation and steering activities :

Medical Imaging and Signal Processing Track Lead of the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (since January 2023)

Member of the Medical Ultrasonics Technical Program Committee of the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium (since March 2021)

Technical Program Organizer (representative for Biomedical Acoustics) for Meetings of the Acoustical Society of America (from May 2019 to December 2023)

General chair at the International Lung Ultrasound Symposium, Trento, Italy, 2023 (co-sponsored meeting of the Acoustical Society of America).

Member of the Tutorial Committee at the IEEE International Symposium of Biomedical Imaging, Kolkata, 28-21 March, 2022.

Hybrid chair at the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Venice, Italy, 2022.

Program Committee member at the 16th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, Waterloo, Canada, 27-29 August 2019. 

Session chair of the session "Image Analysis and Elastography", at the IEEE South Asian Ultrasonics Symposium, Gandinaghar, India, 27-29 March 2024.

Session chair and organiser of the special session "Novel Ultrasound Image Acquisition Technologies and Techniques", at the 185th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Sidney, 4-8 December 2023. 

Session chair and organiser of the special session "Biomedical Acoustics in Pulmonology", at the 185th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Sidney, 4-8 December 2023. 

Session chair of the session "Deep Learning for Image Segmentation", at the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Montreal, Canada, 3-8 September 2023. 

Session chair and organiser of the special session "Lung Ultrasound", at the 184th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, 8-12 May 2023. 

Session chair of the session "Artificial Intelligence For Imaging I", at the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Venice, Italy, 10-13 October 2022. 

Session chair and organiser of the special session "New Developments in Lung Ultrasound", at the 182th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Denver, 23-27 May 2022. 

Session chair of the session "Elastography", at the AIUM meeting, San Diego, California, 12-16 March 2022. 

Session chair of the session "Deep learning based diagnosis", at the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Virtual Symposium, 11-16 September 2021. 

Session chair of the session "Heart, Lung, Thyroid, & Tongue", at the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Virtual Symposium, 11-16 September 2021. 

Session chair of the Panel Session "Advances in Ultrasound Imaging", at the 180th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustics in Focus, 8-10 June 2021. 

Session chair and organiser of the special session "New Developments in Lung Ultrasound", at the 179th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Acoustics Virtually Everywhere, 7-11 December 2020. 

Session chair of the session "New Approaches For Photoacoustic Imaging & Contrast", at the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Virtual Symposium, 6-11 September 2020. 

Session chair of the session "Image Fusion and Registration", at the IEEE International Ultrasonics Symposium, Glasgow, 6-9 October 2019. 

Session chair and organiser of the special session "High Frame Rate Ultrasound Imaging: Technical Developments and Clinical Applications", at the 178th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, San Diego, USA, 2-6 December 2019. 

Session chair and organiser of the special session "Signal Processing Techniques for Ultrasound Tissue Characterisation and Imaging in Complex Biomedical Media", at the 16th International Conference on Image Analysis and Recognition, Waterloo, Canada, 27-29 August 2019. 

Session chair and organiser of the special session "Lung Ultrasound and Tissue Stiffness Method", at the 177th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Louisville, USA, 13-17 May 2019. 

Session chair and organiser of the special session "The state of the art in lung ultrasound, past, present and future", at the 176th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Victoria, Canada, 5-9 Nov 2018. 

Session co-chair of the session “Imaging and tissue characterisation” at the 20th International Symposium on Nonlinear Acoustics, Lyon 2015. 

Co-organizer/associate editor and session co-chair of the invited session “Imaging of angiogenesis and neo-vascularization for cancer diagnostics” at the 36th international conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, Chicago 2014. 

Prof. Demi's departmental activities:

Faculty board (consiglio dei docenti) member of the Information and Communication Technology International PhD program, Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento.

Internationalization delegate for the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento (from 2018 to 2022).

Erasmus+ program delegate for the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science, University of Trento (since 2018).

Prof. Demi's other activities:

Selected as project evaluator for ERC (European Research Council) Starting Grants.

Selected as project evaluator for ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche) Grants.

Fellow  of the Acoustical Society of America (Since 2023).

Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Biomedical Acoustics Section (Since 2021). 

Editorial Board Member of Ultrasonics, Elsevier (Since 2023).  

Editorial Board Member of Applied Sciences (MDPI), Applied Biosciences and Bioengineering Section (2019-2022).  

Guest Editor of the Special Issue on "Ultrasound in Covid-19 and Lung Diagnostics", published in IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control (2020).

Guest Editor of the Special Issue on “Lung Ultrasound”, published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2020-21).

Guest Editor of the Special Issue on "Signal Processing and Image Analysis Techniques for Lung Ultrasound Imaging", published in Applied Sciences (2020).

Collaboration with the Canadian research institute PTRC and Dutch INCAS3 innovation center for the development of ultrasound sensors and sensor systems for mapping wormholes in heavy oil reservoirs.

Participation at the Physical Acoustics Summer School organised by the Acoustical Society of America and the National Center for Physical Acoustics, and held at the University of Mississippi in 2012. 

From September 23 to December 21 2007, I carried out research activities at the University of Adelaide (South Australia), School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, as part of my master thesis project.  

From April to September 2006, I worked as volunteer for Engineering without Borders (Pisa), and designed and established a satellite connection in Burkina Faso, Africa, in the city of Boulsa.   

Prof. Demi's reviewing activities:

Science Advances 

IEEE Transactions on Medical Imaging

IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics

IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics Ferroelectrics and Frequency Control

IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Ultraschall in der Medizin - European Journal of Ultrasound

Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology

Ultrasonics

Medical Image Analysis

Journal of Ultrasound in Medicine

Chest

Internal and Emergency Medicine

Scientific Reports

European Respiratory Journal (ERJ) Open Research

Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine

International Journal of Hyperthermia

PloS ONE

Sensors

BMJ Open

Applied Sciences

Ultrasonic Imaging

Acta Acustica

Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine