Dr. Paolo Bonato received a M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy (1989), and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Università di Roma “La Sapienza”, Roma, Italy (1995). From 1996 to 2002 he was Research Assistant Professor at the NeuroMuscular Research Center of Boston University, Boston, MA. He is currently Director of the Motion Analysis Laboratory at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Boston, MA and Assistant Professor in the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School. Dr Bonato is also a member of the affiliated faculty of The Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology. His research work includes wearable technology, rehabilitation engineering, electromyography, and biomechanics of movement. He has developed intelligent signal processing tools for investigating problems in neurophysiology and neurofuzzy inference systems for the analysis of data recorded using wearable sensors. Dr. Bonato is Senior Member of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology and Council Member of the International Society of Electrophysiology and Kinesiology. He is Editor-in-Chief
of Journal on NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation and Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering and IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine. Dr. Bonato is a member of the IEEE EMBS Technical Committee on Wearable Biomedical Sensors and Systems.