- Professor of Computational Biology
I am Full Professor at the department of Computer Science and Technology of the University of Cambridge and I am a member of the Artificial Intelligence group. I am a member of the Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine.
Background: PhD in Complex Systems and Non Linear Dynamics (School of Informatics, dept of Engineering of the University of Firenze, Italy) and PhD in (Theoretical) Genetics (University of Pavia, Italy). More information is on my personal homepage
Other Affliations: Fellow and member of the Council of Clare Hall College, member of Ellis, the European Lab for Learning & Intelligent Systems, I am member of the Academia Europaea; I am listed in www.topitalianscientists.org/Top_italian_scientists_VIA-Academy.aspx
I am happy to receive enquiries for PhD applications. I have successfully completed the equality and diversity essentials.
Committees : Student complaints; Postdoc mentoring
Research
My research interest focuses on developing Artificial Intelligence and Computational Biology models to understand diseases complexity and address personalised and precision medicine. Current focus is on Graph Neural Network modeling to build predictive models based on the integration of multi scale, multi omics and multi physics data; integrate deep learning and mechanistic approaches; explainability and interpretability in medicine; exploiting short and long range communications in the human body, between cells and tissues and predict emerging mechanistic properties at systemic medicine level. Develop an AI-based medical digital twin to increase self-awareness; Develop an AI personal decision support system to increase social awareness.
Teaching
Current: Geometric Deep learning
Past: Bioinformatics Algorithms
Current Agenda (March):
Member of the committee to assess Pasteur Institutes (France)
Invited Talk AI and Healthcare (Padova)
Current and Past Postdoctoral students
- Francesco di Giovanni
- Tiago Azevedo
- Helena Andres Terre
- Nikola Simidjievski
- Zohreh Shams
- Alessandro di Stefano
- Gianluca Ascolani
- Julien Mozziconacci
- Eric Yu-En Lu
Current and Past PhD students
- Iulia Duta
- Simon Mathis
- Chaitanya Joshi
- Alex Norcliffe
- David Buterez
- Dobrik Georgiev
- Jacob Moss
- Pietro Barbiero
- Cristian Bodnar
- Alexander Campbell
- Paris Flood
- Felix Opolka
- Ramon Viñas Torné
- Junwei Yang
- Paul Scherer
- Jacob Deasy
- Catalina Cangea
- Benjamin Day
- Emma Rocheteau
- Tiago Azevedo
- Simeon Spasov
- Duo Wang
- Jin Zhu
- Petar Velickovic
- Helena Andres Terre
- Giovanna maria Dimitri
- Pablo Spivakovsky-Gonzalez
- Thomas Brouwer
- Maxwell Conway
- Hui Xiao
- Annalisa Occhipinti
- Naruemon (Ploy) Pratanwanich
- Yoli Shavit
- Claudio Angione
- Mohammad Ali Moni
- Syed Haider
- Stephan Kitchovitch
- Yuedong Song
- Ian Leung
- Viet Anh Nguyen
- Anilkumar Sorathiya
- Richard Van der Wath