Dr. Giovanni Luca Christian Masala

Dr Giovanni Luca Masala has a PhD in Applied Physics (AI in medical applications), 2006 and a Laurea (MSc+BSc degree) in Electronic Engineering (path in AI), 2002, both at University of Cagliari, Italy. Before joining the University of Kent, he was Senior Lecturer and Leader of the Robotics Lab at Manchester Metropolitan University. He was also Lecturer at the University of Plymouth, leading the Big Data group. Giovanni has extensively published his research across ranked journals. In 2019 he obtained a grant funded by EU Project Interreg 2 Seas 2014-2020 ‘AGE Independently (AGE’IN)’ with the role of PI for University of Plymouth. In 2018 as Academic Lead (PI) he obtained two Knowledge Transfer Partnership projects, funded by Innovate UK) for Machine learning applications. Giovanni has also developed project management experience as co-investigator in the 2014-2015 with the project ‘Cloud computing platform for SMEs’, funded by Sardinia Regional Council, and the 2008-2009 project ‘Disclosure of information, culture and e-business on Internet: access for persons with disabilities’.