Zappalà, Dario (Date of defense: 2019-04-04)
The dynamics of the climate system plays a crucial role in the sustainability of life on Earth, and this motivates research to understand and characterise our climate and predict its evolution. In this ...
Amil Marletti, Pablo (Date of defense: 2020-02-11)
This thesis work presents novel methods for the analysis and classification of medical images and, more generally, complex data. First, an unsupervised machine learning method is proposed to order ...
Halpaap, Donatus (Date of defense: 2019-12-09)
With the double pass (DP) technique it is possible to quantify the optical quality of a patient's eye by measuring its point spread function. Due to the low reflectivity of the retina a high-intensity, ...
Quintero Quiroz, Carlos Alberto (Date of defense: 2017-03-16)
Optical excitable systems that mimic neuronal behavior have potential to be building-blocks of novel, ultra-fast, neuron-inspired photonic information processing systems. In particular, semiconductor ...
Masoliver Vila, Maria (Date of defense: 2020-02-20)
Sensory neurons use sequences of electrical pulses (known as action potentials or spikes) to encode and transmit information of external temporal stimuli. Neural coding is the research field that studies ...