Lucia PePa

Prof. Lucia PePa is a Researcher at the Faculty of Engineering of the Polytechnic University of Marche. Her work focuses on innovative technologies for neurological rehabilitation, particularly Parkinson's disease (PD), leveraging telemedicine, wearable devices, and machine learning. She specializes in developing low-cost tele-rehabilitation systems and AI-driven solutions for symptom monitoring and outcome prediction.

Her research integrates interdisciplinary approaches, including cybersecurity for IoT healthcare systems, emotion recognition through physiological signals, and real-time stress detection via computer interaction patterns. She has contributed to projects like RAPIDO and PREPARE, advancing personalized rehabilitation strategies using AI-based patient stratification.

Key areas include: telerehabilitation architecture design, wearable sensor data analysis, and clinical trial methodologies for PD interventions. Her publications span from gait analysis using smartphones to ethical considerations in federated learning for healthcare data.