NECSTLab - Politecnico di Milano

05/06/2026

📌 Avete mai pensato di trasformare un’idea in una startup?

Magari avete un progetto nel cassetto, una tecnologia che vi appassiona, oppure siete semplicemente curiosi di capire come nascono le aziende innovative che oggi stanno cambiando il mondo.

Se la risposta è sì, allora StartUp101 è il corso che fa per voi.

🚀 Un percorso introduttivo dedicato a chi vuole avvicinarsi al mondo dell’imprenditorialità, comprendere i principali elementi che caratterizzano una startup e conoscere strumenti, approcci e metodologie utili per trasformare un’idea in un progetto concreto.

Il corso sarà tenuto dall'Ing. Niccolò Sanarico insieme all'Ing. Guido Walter Di Donato, che condivideranno esperienze, esempi e lezioni apprese direttamente dal mondo dell’innovazione e delle startup.

L'iniziativa si inserisce all'interno delle attività di Passion in Action (PiA) e rappresenta anche una delle opportunità offerte nell'ambito di POLIMI Innovators, l'ecosistema dedicato a studenti, alumni, ricercatori e innovatori interessati a esplorare il mondo dell'innovazione, dell'imprenditorialità e della creazione di impatto.

📅 Ci vediamo online su Zoom:
• 15 giugno 2026 – ore 17:30
• 17 giugno 2026 – ore 17:30
• 22 giugno 2026 – ore 17:30

Perché ogni startup nasce da un'idea.
Ma ogni idea ha bisogno delle persone giuste, delle competenze giuste e del coraggio di fare il primo passo.

03/06/2026

🌈 Pride Month at NECSTLab

Innovation thrives when people can bring their whole selves to the table.

At NECSTLab, we believe that research, education, and innovation grow stronger through diversity of perspectives, experiences, ideas, and backgrounds. Every breakthrough starts with people, and great communities are built when everyone feels welcomed, respected, and empowered to contribute.

Pride Month is an opportunity to celebrate inclusion, authenticity, and the value of creating environments where individuals can express who they are without barriers. It is also a reminder that excellence in research and education is deeply connected to our ability to embrace different viewpoints and learn from one another.

As a research lab and educational community, we are committed to fostering a culture where curiosity is encouraged, talent is recognized, and opportunities are accessible to all.

Because the future of science, technology, and innovation is built by diverse minds working together.

Happy Pride Month! 🌈

02/06/2026

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On Friday, June 5, 2026, we will have a new talk for the series .

During this talk, we will have, as speaker, Marco Santambrogio, Professor at Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria.

In the following, you can find the details about the talk:
📌 Title: NECSTLab and LEONARDO It always seems impossible until it is done

📌 Abstract: In the general perception, Research and Education form a dichotomy, for it is hard to couple them into productive and virtuous cycles. At NECSTLab, we embrace such a dichotomy, pushing it further by expanding our view over a third axis: personal well-being/ness.

We call it Leonardo.

Leonardo is our research project to augment students’ awareness of themselves and their abilities. It bloomed from the seed idea that technical competencies are just one of the key components to personal success. Resilience – the ability to define individual goals and plan towards them – is the natural step further. Finally – so far – we add one last term to complete the equation: awareness of personal talents and limits.

The Leonardo project is organized over 4 Levels bundled in 2 Phases of 2 Levels each; more in detail, each Level spans from 1 up to 3 semesters. During each Level, the participants face challenges as part of a series of activities drawn from 3 areas: Learning, Personal Well-being/ness, and Research. Each phase has its exit activity: an experience that encourages the participants to measure themselves over the skills and competencies they have become more aware of.

📌 Time: 3:30 pm

📌 Location: online on Zoom: https://polimi-it.zoom.us/j/93555591476

01/06/2026

On Friday, 29.05.2026, we continued the series of our .

During the talk we had, as speaker, Susanna Bardini, PhD student at Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria.

In the following, you can find the details about the talk:

📌 Title: Multimodal Sensing Infrastructures for Personalized Health Monitoring: Wearable Sensing, Distributed Learning, and Edge Intelligence

📌 Video: https://youtu.be/J6ezpoW14c4

- On Friday, May 29, 2026, w...

29/05/2026

Creativity Science and Innovation (CSI) Course | Ideare, Inventare, Innovare

On May 14 and 15, NECSTLab hosted Ideare, Inventare, Innovare, an event organized at Politecnico di Milano as part of the Creativity Science and Innovation (CSI) course and Passion in Action initiative, focused on the development of projects based on the Arduino UNO Q, thanks to the collaboration with Arduino.|

During the 2-day event, students worked in teams, moving from concept to a working prototype — designing, building, and testing their solutions within an intensive and inspiring timeframe.

🏆 The winning teams will now continue their development journey directly at NECSTLab, supported by researchers and mentors, taking their prototypes to the next level and to present to the Arduino team in June.

👏 A special thank you to Arduino, and in particular to Fabio Violante, Massimo Banzi, Stefano Implicito, Lucrezia Carnelos, and Achille Montanaro, for their invaluable support and collaboration throughout the entire initiative. A heartfelt thank you also goes to Marco Santambrogio and Aldo Torrebruno for their commitment to making this experience possible for the students under the guidance of the NECSTLab PhD Students: Susanna Bardini, Teka Kimbi Ntimanputu, and Marcello Martini

This event not only showcased the students' technical talent and creativity but also highlighted the importance of bridging the gap between education and real-world innovation.

27/05/2026

: The Multimagineering Project

📣 “Brick walls are there for a reason.
The brick walls are not there to keep us out.
The brick walls are there to show us how badly we want something.
Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want something badly enough.”
— Randy Pausch

This quote strongly drives many of the activities within LEONARDO, especially when it comes to our Spartan experiences.

At first glance, it may sound unusual for a technical university and a research lab to involve students in activities such as Spartan races. But if we look more closely, perhaps the real question is: why are we among the few integrating these experiences into education and research training?

Running an obstacle race means facing the unexpected, adapting continuously, dealing with fatigue, uncertainty, pressure, and failure. Sounds familiar? These are exactly the kinds of challenges our students experience every semester during their academic and research journeys.

🎯 Obstacles are not only exams. Obstacles are everywhere in life, and everyone faces them differently. Through LEONARDO, we want students to understand that there is nothing wrong in being scared, struggling, or feeling that a challenge may be “too much.” Obstacles are there for a reason: to help us discover who we are, how we react, and how much we are willing to grow.

🎯 Spartan races also teach something fundamental: recognizing our limits and asking for help. No matter how strong or prepared we are, sometimes we need the support of others... and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. Together, we can achieve results beyond what we initially imagined. Sharing experiences means being inspired and empowered by the people around us, exactly as shown in these moments.

26/05/2026

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On Friday, May 29, 2026, we will have a new talk for the series .

During this talk, we will have, as speaker, Susanna Bardini, PhD student at Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria.

In the following, you can find the details about the talk:
📌 Title: Multimodal Sensing Infrastructures for Personalized Health Monitoring: Wearable Sensing, Distributed Learning, and Edge Intelligence

📌 Abstract: In an era of rapid technological advancement, the integration of wearable technologies and ambient sensors within smart buildings offers unprecedented opportunities to optimize well-being, performance, and recovery. This research aims to develop a scalable, privacy-preserving framework that combines data from wearables and environmental sensors, using Federated Learning (FL) for distributed analysis. The focus is on understanding how ambient factors impact on general wellbeing, daily routines, and working performances. A key component of the project is the creation of a digital twin for university students, which monitors their sleep, cognitive function, stress, and recovery, providing personalized insights to enhance academic performance and well-being. Additionally, the system explores the use of VR frameworks to assess the impact of these technologies on student well-being, both in terms of academic outcomes and personal development.

📌 Time: 11:30 am

📌 Location: live from the NECSTLab Meeting Room or online on Zoom: https://polimi-it.zoom.us/j/93555591476

25/05/2026

On Friday, 22.05.2026, we continued the series of our .

During the talk we had, as speaker, Leonardo De Grandis, PhD student at Dipartimento di Elettronica, Informazione e Bioingegneria.

In the following, you can find the details about the talk:
📌 Title: A Graph Machine Learning Approach for Multi-Omics Representation Learning

📌 Video: https://youtu.be/4yqGWApiCCI

- On Friday, May 22, 2026, w...

22/05/2026

📣 NGC evolves into BRIDGES
In the coming days, we will leave for the 17th edition of what, for many years, has been known as the NECST Group Conference (NGC).

Born in 2011, NGC was created with a simple but ambitious goal: helping students step out of their comfort zone, connect with the international research ecosystem, present their work, and build relationships that can shape their future.

Today, this initiative enters a new phase.

🚀 NGC becomes BRIDGES: Boosting Research, Innovation and Personal Development through a Global EcoSystem.

For the first time, the initiative opens beyond NECSTLab and welcomes PhD students from the entire DEIB community, thanks to Prof. Luigi Piroddi’s vision of extending what was started within NECSTLab.

Because research grows faster when communities connect.
Because innovation happens when different perspectives meet.
Because sometimes the most important thing we can build… is a bridge.

📍 First stop: New Orleans, May 23–30, for IPDPS, with:
V. Tasso, F. Pesce, A. Verosimile, M. D. Buttiglione, T. Spagnolo, M. Ronzani, M. Balla, G. Sorrentino, D. Conficconi, C. Silvano, and M. Santambrogio.

📍 Then San Francisco, May 30–June 5, for visits and meetings across the Bay Area innovation ecosystem, including Microsoft, META, Apple, NVIDIA, AMD, Google, IDEO, INNOVIT, Mind the Bridge, Nucleo, and many other inspiring realities.

The SF delegation will also include:
S. Danna, L. De Grandis, L. Ginestretti, J. Lazzari, T. K. Ntimanputu, G. De Franceschi, L. Cordioli, M. Martini, M. Magarini, and A. R. Miele.

Over the next days, our students and researchers will present their work, exchange ideas, build connections, and expand their vision of research, innovation, and entrepreneurship.

This is BRIDGES.
And this is only the beginning.