Dr. Andrius Petrėnas

Head of the Laboratory of Biosignal Analytics at the Biomedical Engineering Institute and Associate Professor at the Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Kaunas University of Technology | Lithuania

Andrius Petrėnas is head of the Laboratory of Biosignal Analytics and a senior researcher at the Biomedical Engineering Institute of Kaunas University of Technology. He also serves as an associate professor at the Faculty of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Kaunas University of Technology. His main research interest is development and investigation of biosignal processing and machine learning algorithms for wearable-based cardiac disease monitoring. A. Petrėnas research, notably on atrial fibrillation modelling, detection and characterization, has earned recognition. He was a laureate for the Best Doctoral Thesis of Lithuania (2015) for his dissertation “Detection of brief episode atrial fibrillation”, and a recipient of the Kazickas Family Foundation prize for teachers conducting high-tech scientific research (2020), the Young Scientist Scholarship from the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences (2019), and the Infobalt scholarship (2015).