Milan Workshop
on Computational Methods For Mental Health and Well-Being 2026
The MINDFUL Group welcomes you to the third edition of the Milan Workshop on Computational Methods For Mental Health and Well Being!
This in-person event will feature experts in the field sharing their knowledge and insights. Don't miss this opportunity to enhance your understanding of computational methods for mental health and well-being. Registration details will be available shortly!
This year we are also very happy to share that a session will be dedicated to kick-start young researcher, therefore a pitch (5 min) plus poster session will be dedicated to innovative proposals in the field of mental health and well-being. The main idea is to provide young researchers a stage to make a project proposal and find a network of people they can collaborate with. Multidisciplinarity is the key!
A best proposal award will also be given during the workshop day!
The evaluation will consider both pitch and poster, and the final award given according to participants' inputs and to the judgement of a panel of experts from the MINDFUL group (the panel composition will be disclosed two weeks before the workshop day).
Submit a title and an abstract by April 30th, 2026.
The abstract should be of a maximum of 250 words. No references are required, but if you want to add them, please do not exceed three references.
Event details
- Tuesday, 23rd June, 2026 from 8:30 to 18:00
- UNIMIB - Building U4 TELLUS (Piazza della Scienza 4, Milano) - Room 8: Aula Luisella Sironi (1st basement floor)
- FREE EVENT with registration
- Contact us for info francesca.gasparini@unimib.it
Our invited speakers
Salvador Dura Bernal
Salvador Dura Bernal is an Associate Professor at State University of New York Downstate Health Sciences University in the Department of Physiology and Pharmacology, and a Senior Research Scientist at the Nathan Kline Institute for Psychiatric Research. He leads a computational neuroscience lab focused on multiscale brain modeling, and AI applications in neuroscience.
He is a co-director of The Global Center for AI in Mental Health. The center is dedicated to pioneering and deploying innovative AI solutions to tackle the mental health challenges faced by underserved communities.
Chiara Capra
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chiaracapra/
Chiara Capra, with a background in neuroscience, product development and business, has extensive international experience in clinical practice and digital health in countries such as Australia, the United Kingdom, Italy and South Africa. She is a partner and Chief Product Officer at Sense4Care, a B2B company that monitors Parkinson's through wearable devices, with a presence in 21 countries around the world. Additionally, she is co-founder and CEO of LIFE Neurotech, a B2C company, where she uses these devices to improve disease management in patients with Parkinson's.
Ana-Maria Bucur-Cosma
She is a post-doc researcher at the Università Svizzera-Italiana (USI) working on natural language processing techniques in the field of mental health.
Confirmed speakers
- Alberto Borghese, Department of Computer Science "Giovanni degli Antoni" @UNIMI.
- Marco Cremaschi, Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication @UNIMIB.
- Aurora Saibene, MMSP laboratory member and TecSEDU laboratory founding member.
- Letizia Squarcina, Department of Pathophysiology and Transplantation @UNIMI.
- Simone Zini, ISLab, Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication @UNIMIB.