Alessandro Nesti

Nationality: Italian

EPFL SDSC
INN 218 (Bâtiment INN)
Station 14
1015 Lausanne

Expertise

Data science
Machine learning
Experimental design
Hypothesis testing
Multisensory perception
I joined the Swiss Data Science Center at EPFL in March 2019 as a data scientist focused on industry collaborations. Our mission is to support corporates in leveraging the power of their data by adopting analytical approaches and data-centric solutions. My background is in biomedical engineering and I hold a PhD in neuroscience from the University of Tübingen. Before joining the center, I worked as a postdoc at the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics, at the EPFL Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience in Geneva, and as data scientist for a private ecommerce company.

Education

PhD

| Neuroscience

2011 – 2015 Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics - Tübingen, Germany
Directed by Professor Bülthoff

Master’s degree

| Biomedical Engineering, with focus on biomedical technologies

2007 – 2010 Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy

Bachelor's degree

| Biomedical Engineering

2003 – 2007 Università degli Studi di Pavia, Italy

Selected publications

Human discrimination of head-centred visual–inertial yaw rotations

Nesti A, Beykirch KA, Pretto P and Bülthoff HH
Published in Experimental Brain Research 233(12) 3553-3564, 2015 in

Roll rate perceptual thresholds in active and passive curve driving simulation

Nesti A, Nooij SAE, Losert M, Bülthoff HH and Pretto P
Published in Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International 92(5) 417-426, 2016 in

Accumulation of Inertial Sensory Information in the Perception of Whole Body Yaw Rotation

Nesti A, de Winkel KN and Bülthoff HH
Published in PLoS ONE 12(1) 1-14, 2017 in