About

Eleonora Tamilia, Ph.D.

Eleonora Tamilia is an Assistant Professor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. She is also the Director of the Epilepsy Monitoring Unit (EMU) Signal and Data Science at Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH, Department of Neurology), as well as faculty member of the Fetal-Neonatal Neuroimaging and Developmental Science Center (FNNDSC) and Clinical MEG program at BCH (Department of Pediatrics).

Dr. Tamilia received her PhD and MS in Biomedical Engineering (from University Campus Bio-Medico and University Tor Vergata of Rome, respectively) and conducted her post-doctoral training at BCH/HMS (from 2015 to 2019). Dr. Tamilia is an expert in biomedical signal processing and data analysis with particular focus on neurodevelopment and neurological disorders. Her research work has been recognized through numerous awards from national and international committees. She has published so far 53 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals with >1,000 citations.

She contributed to the field of translational epilepsy research through several publications, which present novel approaches for the interpretation of scalp EEG, intracranial EEG and/or MEG and investigated their clinical utility for epilepsy surgery. Her research products have been translated within the clinical workflow of the Division of Epilepsy and Clinical Neurophysiology at BCH, to which she provide clinical support by analyzing EEG data of patients undergoing surgery with specific focus on identifying epilepsy EEG biomarkers using quantitative computerized methods.

She also conducts research on the development of new non-invasive methods that facilitates the early diagnosis of feeding difficulties in neonates through the quantitative monitoring of their oro-motor activity.

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