Leonardo Alchieri

Leonardo Alchieri

PhD Student
Leonardo Alchieri is a PhD student at the Faculty of Informatics, Università della Svizzera italiana (USI), supervised by Prof. Silvia Santini. His research pursues machine learning for affective, wearable, and ubiquitous computing, with a focus on personal health.
Publications
(2025). Blue Mondays and Happy Meals: Investigating the Impact of Contextual Factors on Mood States. Companion of the 2025 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp Companion 2025, Espoo, Finland, October 12-16, 2025.
(2025). Exploring Generalist Foundation Models for Time Series of Electrodermal Activity Data. Companion of the 2025 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp Companion 2025, Espoo, Finland, October 12-16, 2025.
(2025). Robust PPG Authentication: The Role of Temporal, Individual, and State Variability. Companion of the 2025 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, UbiComp Companion 2025, Espoo, Finland, October 12-16, 2025.
(2023). Enhancing XGBoost with Heuristic Smoothing for Transportation Mode and Activity Recognition. Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing & the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing, Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico, October 8-12, 2023.
(2023). Recognition of Engagement from Electrodermal Activity Data Across Different Contexts. Adjunct Proceedings of the 2023 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing & the 2023 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computing, Cancun, Quintana Roo, Mexico, October 8-12, 2023.
(2023). Video-Based Emotion Estimation Using Deep Neural Networks: A Comparative Study. Image Analysis and Processing - ICIAP 2023 Workshops - Udine, Italy, September 11-15, 2023, Proceedings, Part I.
(2022). Heart Rate During Sleep Measured Using Finger-, Wrist- and Chest-Worn Devices: A Comparison Study. Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare - 16th EAI International Conference, PervasiveHealth 2022, Thessaloniki, Greece, December 12-14, 2022, Proceedings.
(2022). On the Impact of Lateralization in Physiological Signals from Wearable Sensors. Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC 2022, Cambridge, United Kingdom, September 11-15, 2022.
(2022). On the mismatch between measured and perceived sleep quality. Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and the 2022 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, UbiComp/ISWC 2022, Cambridge, United Kingdom, September 11-15, 2022.