Biography
Francesca De Simone was born in Rome, Italy, on May 21st, 1983. She received her M.Sc. in Electronic Engineering from the Università degli Studi Roma TRE, Rome, Italy, in December 2006. From August 2006 until November 2006 she was research assistant in the Institute of Signal Processing of Tampere University of Technology (TUT), in Tampere, Finland, working on error concealment technique for video transmission over Digital Video Broadcasting Handheld (DVB-H) channel. She performed her M.Sc thesis project on Video Quality Assessment and Error concealment for DVB-H System. From January to March 2007 she worked as IT consultant in Rome, in H3G Italy, focusing on test activity for DVB-H phones. Since May 2007 she is research assistant in Professor Ebrahimi’s MultiMedia Signal Processing group at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Lausanne, Switzerland. Since March 2008, she is pursing her PhD thesis under the guidance of Prof. Ebrahimi.
Her research interests include subjective visual quality assessment, Full-Reference, Reduced-Reference and No-Reference objective image and video quality metrics, Quality of Experience in multimedia communication. She has been involved in the CTI A-VISION project on Advanced Videoconferencing Service over IP-cOnverging Networks, in the K-SPACE Network of Excellence (http://www.k-space.eu/)and in VISNET II Network of Excellence (http://www.visnet-noe.org/). She is currently involved in the NCCR IM2 network (Swiss National Center of Competence in Research on Interactive Multimodal Information Management, http://www.im2.ch/), in the Network of Excellence PetaMedia (http://www.petamedia.eu/) and in the Euro NF Network of Excellence on Haptic enablers for improved QoE, bandwidth and energy consumption (http://www.univie.ac.at/hapqnet/). She has been involved in several industrial projects, like the Microsoft JPEG-XR performance evaluation project (1 year project carried out during 2008) and the ongoing iCelero project on Internet acceleration for video streaming over 3G networks.
Francesca won the “Accenture Master of Science Award 2006/2007” for the results achieved during her Master of Science at Università degli Studi Roma TRE and the “QoMEX 2009 Qualcomm Best Student Paper Award” for the paper “Subjective assessment of H.264/AVC video sequences transmitted over a noisy channel”.
Main Publications
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Toward a common standard for data and specimen provenance in life sciences
Learning Health Systems. 2023-04-18. p. e10365. DOI : 10.1002/lrh2.10365.Search for long-lived heavy neutral leptons with displaced vertices in proton-proton collisions at √s= 13 TeV
Journal of High Energy Physics. 2022. DOI : 10.1007/JHEP07(2022)081.Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)
Autophagy. 2021-01-01. Vol. 17, num. 1, p. 1-382. DOI : 10.1080/15548627.2020.1797280.Wearable multifunctional sweat-sensing system for efficient healthcare monitoring
Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical. 2020-10-24. Vol. 328, num. 1, p. 129017. DOI : 10.1016/j.snb.2020.129017.Continuous monitoring of propofol in human serum with fouling compensation by support vector classifier
Biosensors and Bioelectronics. 2020-10-15. Vol. 171, p. 1-7, 112666. DOI : 10.1016/j.bios.2020.112666.Search for light pseudoscalar boson pairs produced from decays of the 125 GeV Higgs boson in final states with two muons and two nearby tracks in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
Physics Letters B. 2020-01-10. Vol. 800, p. 135087. DOI : 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.135087.Visual Distortions in 360-degree Videos
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology. 2020. Vol. 30, num. 8, p. 2524-2537. DOI : 10.1109/TCSVT.2019.2927344.Search for a narrow resonance lighter than 200 GeV decaying to a pair of muons in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
2019-12-10
Search for long-lived particles using delayed photons in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
Physical Review D. 2019-12-09. Vol. 100, num. 11, p. 112003. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.112003.Determination of the strong coupling constant $\alpha_{S}(m_\mathrm{Z})$ from measurements of inclusive W$^\pm$ and Z boson production cross sections in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 7 and 8 TeV
2019-12-09
Performance of the reconstruction and identification of high-momentum muons in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
2019-12-07
Constraints on anomalous HVV couplings from the production of Higgs bosons decaying to $\tau$ lepton pairs
Physical Review D. 2019-12-05. Vol. 100, num. 11, p. 112002. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.112002.Search for low-mass quark-antiquark resonances produced in association with a photon at $\sqrt{s} = $ 13 TeV
Physical Review Letters. 2019-12-04. Vol. 123, num. 23, p. 231803. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.231803.Isospin amplitudes in $\Lambda_b^0\to J/\psi \Lambda(\Sigma^0)$ and $\Xi_b^0\to J/\psi \Xi^0(\Lambda)$ decays
2019-12-04
Search for a heavy Higgs boson decaying to a pair of W bosons in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
2019-12-03
A search for the standard model Higgs boson decaying to charm quarks
2019-12-03
Measurement of the top quark pair production cross section in dilepton final states containing one $\tau$ lepton in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
2019-11-29
Measurements of triple-differential cross sections for inclusive isolated-photon+jet events in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 8 TeV
The European Physical Journal C. 2019-11-25. Vol. 79, p. 969. DOI : 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7451-7.Search for lepton flavour violating decays of a neutral heavy Higgs boson to $\mu\tau$ and e$\tau$ in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
2019-11-22
Precision measurement of the $\Xi_{cc}^{++}$ mass
2019-11-19
Search for supersymmetry in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV with 137 fb$^{-1}$ in final states with a single lepton using the sum of masses of large-radius jets
2019-11-18
Search for the production of four top quarks in the single-lepton and opposite-sign dilepton final states in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 13 TeV
Journal of High Energy Physics. 2019-11-14. p. 82. DOI : 10.1007/JHEP11(2019)082.Search for physics beyond the standard model in multilepton final states in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
2019-11-12
Search for anomalous electroweak production of vector boson pairs in association with two jets in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
Physics Letters B. 2019-11-10. Vol. 798, p. 134985. DOI : 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134985.Combination of CMS searches for heavy resonances decaying to pairs of bosons or leptons
Physics Letters B. 2019-11-10. Vol. 798, p. 134952. DOI : 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134952.Search for MSSM Higgs bosons decaying to $\mu^+\mu^-$ in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
Physics Letters B. 2019-11-10. Vol. 798, p. 134992. DOI : 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134992.Search for high mass dijet resonances with a new background prediction method in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
2019-11-10
Measurement of the jet mass distribution and top quark mass in hadronic decays of boosted top quarks in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
2019-11-09
Observation of the $\Lambda_\mathrm{b}^0 \to$ J/$\psi \Lambda \phi$ decay in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
2019-11-09
Search for new neutral Higgs bosons through the H$\to$ ZA $\to \ell^{+}\ell^{-} \mathrm{b\bar{b}}$ process in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
2019-11-09
Search for dijet resonances using events with three jets in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
2019-11-09
Measurement of the average very forward energy as a function of the track multiplicity at central pseudorapidities in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
The European Physical Journal C. 2019-11-05. Vol. 79, p. 893. DOI : 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7402-3.Studies of charm quark diffusion inside jets using PbPb and pp collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} =$ 5.02 TeV
2019-11-04
Search for new physics in top quark production in dilepton final states in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
The European Physical Journal C. 2019-11-01. Vol. 79, p. 886. DOI : 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7387-y.Search for top squark pair production in a final state with two tau leptons in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
2019-10-28
Measurement of properties of B$^0_\mathrm{s}\to\mu^+\mu^-$ decays and search for B$^0\to\mu^+\mu^-$ with the CMS experiment
2019-10-26
Search for supersymmetry in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV in final states with jets and missing transverse momentum
Journal of High Energy Physics. 2019-10-25. p. 244. DOI : 10.1007/JHEP10(2019)244.Search for a heavy pseudoscalar Higgs boson decaying into a 125 GeV Higgs boson and a Z boson in final states with two tau and two light leptons at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
2019-10-25
Pseudorapidity distributions of charged hadrons in xenon-xenon collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} =$ 5.44 TeV
Physics Letters B. 2019-10-23. Vol. 799, p. 135049. DOI : 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.135049.Mixed higher-order anisotropic flow and nonlinear response coefficients of charged particles in PbPb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} =$ 2.76 and 5.02 TeV
2019-10-19
Bose-Einstein correlations of charged hadrons in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
2019-10-19
Measurement of the top quark Yukawa coupling from $\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$ kinematic distributions in the lepton+jets final state in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
Physical Review D. 2019-10-18. Vol. 100, num. 7, p. 072007. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.072007.Evidence for light-by-light scattering and searches for axion-like particles in ultraperipheral PbPb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} =$ 5.02 TeV
Physics Letters B. 2019-10-10. Vol. 797, p. 134826. DOI : 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134826.Search for Higgs and Z boson decays to J/ψ or Y pairs in the four-muon final state in proton-proton collisions at s=13TeV
Physics Letters B. 2019-10-10. Vol. 797, p. 134811. DOI : 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134811.Search for long-lived particles using nonprompt jets and missing transverse momentum with proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
Physics Letters B. 2019-10-10. Vol. 797, p. 134876. DOI : 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.134876.Search for dark photons in decays of Higgs bosons produced in association with Z bosons in proton-proton collisions at $ \sqrt{s} $ = 13 TeV
Journal of High Energy Physics. 2019-10-10. p. 139. DOI : 10.1007/JHEP10(2019)139.Strange hadron production in pp and pPb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}= $ 5.02 TeV
2019-10-10
Search for resonances decaying to a pair of Higgs bosons in the $\mathrm{b\overline{b}q\overline{q}’}\ell\nu$ final state in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
Journal of High Energy Physics. 2019-10-09. p. 125. DOI : 10.1007/JHEP10(2019)125.Search for pair production of vectorlike quarks in the fully hadronic final state
Physical Review D. 2019-10-09. Vol. 100, num. 7, p. 072001. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.072001.Measurement of the top quark polarization and $\mathrm{t\bar{t}}$ spin correlations using dilepton final states in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
Physical Review D. 2019-10-09. Vol. 100, num. 7, p. 072002. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.072002.Charged-particle angular correlations in XeXe collisions at $\sqrt{s_{_\mathrm{NN}}}=$ 5.44 TeV
Physical Review C. 2019-10-04. Vol. 100, num. 4, p. 044902. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevC.100.044902.Study of J/$\psi$ meson production from jet fragmentation in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 8 TeV
2019-10-03
Search for supersymmetry with a compressed mass spectrum in events with a soft $\tau$ lepton, a highly energetic jet, and large missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
2019-10-02
Calibration of the CMS hadron calorimeters using proton-proton collision data at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
2019-09-30
Search for a light charged Higgs boson decaying to a W boson and a CP-odd Higgs boson in final states with e$\mu\mu$ or $\mu\mu\mu$ in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
Physical Review Letters. 2019-09-24. Vol. 123, num. 13, p. 131802. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.131802.Running of the top quark mass from proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
2019-09-19
Azimuthal separation in nearly back-to-back jet topologies in inclusive 2- and 3-jet events in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
The European Physical Journal C. 2019-09-18. Vol. 79, p. 773. DOI : 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7276-4.Evidence for WW production from double-parton interactions in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
2019-09-13
Measurement of the $\mathrm{t\bar{t}}\mathrm{b\bar{b}}$ production cross section in the all-jet final state in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
2019-09-11
Measurement of B$^0_\mathrm{s}$ meson production in pp and PbPb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} =$ 5.02 TeV
Physics Letters B. 2019-09-10. Vol. 796, p. 168-190. DOI : 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.07.014.A search for pair production of new light bosons decaying into muons in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
Physics Letters B. 2019-09-10. Vol. 796, p. 131-154. DOI : 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.07.013.Search for electroweak production of a vector-like T quark using fully hadronic final states
2019-09-10
Search for low mass vector resonances decaying into quark-antiquark pairs in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
2019-09-09
Measurements of differential Z boson production cross sections in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
2019-09-09
Searches for physics beyond the standard model with the $M_\mathrm{T2}$ variable in hadronic final states with and without disappearing tracks in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
2019-09-08
Search for vector-like leptons in multilepton final states in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
Physical Review D. 2019-09-07. Vol. 100, num. 5, p. 052003. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.052003.Search for supersymmetry with a compressed mass spectrum in the vector boson fusion topology with 1-lepton and 0-lepton final states in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
Journal of High Energy Physics. 2019-08-27. p. 150. DOI : 10.1007/JHEP08(2019)150.Search for a charged Higgs boson decaying into top and bottom quarks in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV in events with electrons or muons
2019-08-24
Search for supersymmetry using Higgs boson to diphoton decays at $\sqrt{s}$ = 13 TeV
2019-08-22
Measurement of exclusive $\rho(770)^0$ photoproduction in ultraperipheral pPb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} =$ 5.02 TeV
The European Physical Journal C. 2019-08-21. Vol. 79, p. 702. DOI : 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7202-9.Search for production of four top quarks in final states with same-sign or multiple leptons in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
2019-08-18
Search for dark matter in events with a leptoquark and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
Physics Letters B. 2019-08-10. Vol. 795, p. 76-99. DOI : 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.05.046.Search for an exotic decay of the Higgs boson to a pair of light pseudoscalars in the final state with two muons and two b quarks in pp collisions at 13 TeV
Physics Letters B. 2019-08-10. Vol. 795, p. 398-423. DOI : 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.06.021.Measurement of electroweak WZ boson production and search for new physics in WZ + two jets events in pp collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13TeV
Physics Letters B. 2019-08-10. Vol. 795, p. 281-307. DOI : 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.05.042.Search for dark matter particles produced in association with a Higgs boson in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
2019-08-05
Centrality and pseudorapidity dependence of the transverse energy density in pPb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} =$ 5.02 TeV
Physical Review C. 2019-08-02. Vol. 100, num. 2, p. 024902. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevC.100.024902.Search for heavy Higgs bosons decaying to a top quark pair in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
2019-08-02
Search for the production of W$^\pm$W$^\pm$W$^\mp$ events at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
Physical Review D. 2019-07-27. Vol. 100, num. 1, p. 012004. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevD.100.012004.Search for charged Higgs bosons in the H$^{\pm}$ $\to$ $\tau^{\pm}\nu_\tau$ decay channel in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
Journal of High Energy Physics. 2019-07-24. p. 142. DOI : 10.1007/JHEP07(2019)142.Measurement of differential cross sections and charge ratios for $t$-channel single top quark production in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
2019-07-18
Search for anomalous triple gauge couplings in WW and WZ production in lepton + jet events in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
2019-07-18
Search for physics beyond the standard model in events with overlapping photons and jets
2019-07-14
Study of the B$^+ \to $J$/\psi\overline{\Lambda}$p decay in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 8 TeV
2019-07-11
Studies of Beauty Suppression via Nonprompt $D^0$ Mesons in Pb-Pb Collisions at $Q^2 = 4$ $\rm GeV^2$
Physical Review Letters. 2019-07-10. Vol. 123, num. 2, p. 022001. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevLett.123.022001.Performance of missing transverse momentum reconstruction in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV using the CMS detector
Journal of Instrumentation. 2019-07-04. Vol. 14, num. 07, p. P07004-P07004. DOI : 10.1088/1748-0221/14/07/P07004.Visual Distortions in 360-degree videos (Dataset)
2019-07-04.Search for a heavy pseudoscalar boson decaying to a Z and a Higgs boson at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
The European Physical Journal C. 2019-07-03. Vol. 79, p. 564. DOI : 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-7058-z.Combined search for supersymmetry with photons in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
2019-07-01
Search for supersymmetry in final states with photons and missing transverse momentum in proton-proton collisions at 13 TeV
Journal of High Energy Physics. 2019-06-28. p. 143. DOI : 10.1007/JHEP06(2019)143.An embedding technique to determine $\tau\tau$ backgrounds in proton-proton collision data
Journal of Instrumentation. 2019-06-21. Vol. 14, num. 06, p. P06032-P06032. DOI : 10.1088/1748-0221/14/06/P06032.Search for the associated production of the Higgs boson and a vector boson in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV via Higgs boson decays to $\tau$ leptons
Journal of High Energy Physics. 2019-06-19. p. 93. DOI : 10.1007/JHEP06(2019)093.A multi-dimensional search for new heavy resonances decaying to boosted WW, WZ, or ZZ boson pairs in the dijet final state at 13 TeV
2019-06-13
Measurements of the Higgs boson width and anomalous $HVV$ couplings from on-shell and off-shell production in the four-lepton final state
Physical Review D. 2019-06-12. Vol. 99, num. 11, p. 112003. DOI : 10.1103/PhysRevD.99.112003.Search for invisible decays of a Higgs boson produced through vector boson fusion in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s} =$ 13 TeV
Physics Letters B. 2019-06-10. Vol. 793, p. 520-551. DOI : 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.04.025.Search for a standard model-like Higgs boson in the mass range between 70 and 110 GeV in the diphoton final state in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 8 and 13 TeV
Physics Letters B. 2019-06-10. Vol. 793, p. 320-347. DOI : 10.1016/j.physletb.2019.03.064.Production of $\Lambda_\mathrm{c}^+$ baryons in proton-proton and lead-lead collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}}=$ 5.02 TeV
2019-06-07
Search for a low-mass $\tau^+\tau^-$ resonance in association with a bottom quark in proton-proton collisions at $\sqrt{s}=$ 13 TeV
Journal of High Energy Physics. 2019-05-31. p. 210. DOI : 10.1007/JHEP05(2019)210.Search for supersymmetry in events with a photon, jets, $\mathrm {b}$ -jets, and missing transverse momentum in proton–proton collisions at 13 $\,\text {Te}\text {V}$
The European Physical Journal C. 2019-05-25. Vol. 79, p. 444. DOI : 10.1140/epjc/s10052-019-6926-x.Correlations of azimuthal anisotropy Fourier harmonics in pPb collisions at $\sqrt{s_\mathrm{NN}} =$ 8.16 TeV
2019-05-23