- Full Professor at the Department of Computer Science, University of Milan (UNIMI).
- Master Degree in Biology and Computer Science and a PhD in Computer Science (University of Genoa).
- Founder of AnacletoLab, Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Laboratory of the Department of Computer Science of the University of Milano.
- Principal Investigator of 15 national and international research projects funded by public and private institutions in the area of Bioinformatics, Artificial Intelligence and Big Data analytics.
- Member of ELLIS, the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems
- Member of the editorial board of Nature Scientific Reports and other bioinformatics and computer science journals.
- Research activity: design and application of Artificial Intelligence and Bioinformatics methods to Molecular Biology and Medical problems, with a special focus on Machine Learning methods for Personalized and Precision Medicine, Network Medicine and Systems Biology, in the context of collaborations with various European and American research centers and universities.
- Author of about 200 scientific publications with peer-review in journals, book chapters and international conferences in the field of Artificial Intelligence, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology.