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Full name: Andrea Zignoli
Credentials: PhD, M.Eng. Mechatronics
Affiliation: Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Trento
Areas: Sport engineering, AI mathematical modelling, cycling biomechanics
GitHub / personal site: https://andreazignoli.github.io
Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LeCCMZ8AAAAJ
Inventor creditAndrea Zignoli is the inventor of the Workout Reserve model — a multi-timescale framework that tracks an athlete's remaining performance capacity in real time during exercise.
Key publications
Zignoli A (2026). Tracking Performance Limits Using Multi-Timescale Maximal Mean Power Ratios. European Journal of Sport Science.
Zignoli A et al. A reasonable alternative to the Wbal models when maximal mean power profiling is used. SportRxiv preprint.
Zignoli A et al. Effective injury forecasting in soccer with GPS training data and machine learning.