Research Fellows

Maria Cristina Barba graduated in Information Engineering at the University of Salento, Lecce in 2003. Her past research interests include the management of biomedical data and images in Grid computing environment. She worked for some years in Noemalife, an International Group in the clinical and hospital information systems market.

Actually she is working as a research fellow in AVRLab by developing virtual and augmented reality applications and geo-location based games. Her current research interest covers Virtual and Augmented Reality for medical applications.

Valerio De Luca is a researcher at the Department of Engineering for Innovation of University of Salento, where he obtained a PhD in Information Engineering in 2014.

His past research interests include high performance computing, grid computing, distributed systems for real-time audio-video streaming and video QoE. Since 2015, he works with the Augmented and Virtual Reality Laboratory (AVR Lab), where he has been involved in projects on human-computer interaction and extended reality for medicine, e-learning, cultural heritage.

He recently worked also on GPU computing, with application to optimal UAV path planning, and on augmented reality for improvement of situation awareness in UAV remote control.

He is currently involved in a project on the use of extended reality for real-time support in surgery.