Domenico Buongiorno is an Assistant Professor (RTDa – fixed term) in Electronic and Information Bioengineering at the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering of Polytechnic University of Bari. He received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. (cum laude) degrees in automation and control theory engineering from Politecnico di Bari, Bari, Italy, in 2011 and 2014, respectively. His bachelor and master theses, both supervised by the Prof. Vitoantonio Bevilacqua, concerned machine learning-based optimization techniques for energy consumption optimization and human neuromusculoskeletal modeling, respectively.
In 2017, he received the Ph.D. degree in Emerging Digital Technologies from Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy (PERCeptual RObotics laboratory – PERCRO). His PhD thesis concerns the control of robotic interfaces for interaction with virtual environments, robot-aided neurorehabilitation (EMG based control – Myocontrol) and bilateral multi-DoF teleoperation in disaster scenario.  In 2017, he has been a visiting PhD Student at the Biorobotics Laboratory, UCI Irvine, California, under the sypervision of the Prof. David Reinkensmeyer. In 2019, he received the Italian National Bioengineering Group award for best doctoral thesis.
From November 2017 to July 2022, he was a Research Fellow working on research activities in the fields of Electronic and Informatics Bioengineering, Informatics and Applied Mechanics.
He is and has been involved in a number of research project funded both at regional, national and international level. His research interests include robotic-assisted surgery, medical data processing, explainable AI, human-machine interaction and biomedical engineering.
In March 2019, he founded Apulian Bioengineering srl, a spin-off company of the Polytechnic University of Bari.