Our paper titled “A Comprehensive Approach for the Conceptual Modeling of Genomic Data”, co-authored by myself with Alberto García S. (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia), Stefano Ceri (Politecnico di MIlano), and Oscar Pastor (Universidad Politecnica de Valencia) has been awarded the Runner-up paper award at the International Conference of Conceptual Modeling. We are very proud of […]

On September 23rd I gave the seminar “Data-driven SARS-CoV-2 understanding and hunting” for the AI seminars series at the Information Sciences Institute @ University of Southern California. You can check info here and the recording here. Thanks to Prof. Craig Knoblock for inviting me!

On September 21st I was awarded the “2022 BEST PH.D. THESIS AWARD ON BIG DATA & DATA SCIENCE” from the CINI Big Data Lab (within the itaDATA 2022 conference). Thank you to organizers and the selection committee members!

On September 19th I gave an invited talk titled “Data analysis for unveiling the SARS-CoV-2 evolution” to the First International Workshop on Data Analysis for Life Science (website). Thanks to the organizers Arif Canakoglu, Gaia Ceddia, Sara Pido’, and Pietro Pinoli for inviting me!

On July 14th I gave the online seminar “Data-bases-driven research on viral genomes and SARS-CoV-2” for the ICT4Dev Project at Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambico.

I am going to serve as Guest Editors for the new Topic of Research for the Frontiers in Bioinformatics Journal. Co-editor work will be carried on with my colleagues Elizabeth Heron (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland) and Giorgio Valle (Department of Biology, University of Padua, Italy). The call for papers is available at https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/39186/identification-of-phenotypically-important-genomic-variants. Do not […]

I am glad to announce that the paper “A comprehensive approach for the conceptual modeling of genomic data” authored by myself, Alberto Garcia S., Stefano Ceri, and Oscar Pastor has been accepted for publication at the International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2022), to be presented in October 2022 in Hyderabad, India. This was the […]

We have proposed a novel abstract model called CoV2K tu represent both data and knowledge that are being produced massively on SARS-CoV-2 (see our paper at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41597-022-01348-9 and our blog post at https://researchdata.springernature.com/posts/cov2k-linking-sars-cov-2-data-with-knowledge).

In the Research Data Community of Springer Nature, I wrote a post on ‘CoV2K, linking SARS-CoV-2 data with knowledge’, our latest project on integrating big data and fastly-changing knowledge related to the COVID-19 virus. The work is described in our paper published on Scientific Data. Alfonsi, T., Al Khalaf, R., Ceri, S. et al. CoV2K model, a […]

I will be the organizer of the CMLS Workshop (http://www.bioinformatics.deib.polimi.it/cmls2022/) co-located with the ER 2022 conference (https://er2022web.github.io/ER2022/), to be held 17-20 October 2022.