My name is Michele Tavella. I was born in Genova (Italy) and now I live in Lausanne (Switzerland). I am pursuing my doctoral degree at EPFL in the area of Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) under the supervision of Prof. José del R. Millán and Dr. Robert Leeb. I am involved in the TOBI Project (Tools for Brain-Computer Interaction). My main research interests are asynchronous EEG-based BCIs for controlling prosthetic devices. My work focuses on the explicit detection of the intentionality of entering the control state and on multitasking.

My undergraduate degree in Bioengineering (2004) and my master’s in Neuroengineering (2007) are from Universita’ degli Studi di Genova. Some of the reports of the projects I worked on during my master studies are available here.

I am also working as a freelance IT consultant, mainly focusing in developing distributed systems on GNU/Linux, but not only. I also help companies in reshaping/restructuring their codebase and writing documentation. The thing I surely enjoy the most is rapid prototyping, where unknown problems need to be tackled quickly. I am a skilled programmer (C, C++, C#, Perl etc.) and I have an extensive knowledge in system administration (although I do not really like it).

I was born in Genova in 1982, but I have been moving here and there around northern Italy during my childhood, following my family.  I spent some time in United States where I graduated from High School, then I have been moving quite a bit around Europe before settling in western Switzerland for my doctoral studies. Among my daily activities,being a dog keeper probably is my favorite one. Since four years I take care of Tito, a 35kg boxer.