CNR - Istituto dei Sistemi Complessi

AI modelling and Data Science Management

Rome, Italy

Posted on May 15, 2024  •  3 minutes  • 633 words

Contribution to the project:

A crucial aspect will be devising a transformer-based AI model for TCR and EBV-specific epitopes embeddings. Furthermore, implementing the data science platform and statistical modelling tools will be an important aspect of the effort.

Team Members:

Alessandro Taloni – Project lead

Alessandro Taloni earned his Physics degree from the University of Rome La Sapienza in 2002 and completed his PhD in theoretical Physics at the University of Perugia in 2006. Since 2017, He has held a permanent research position at CNR-ISC. His research interests span a wide range, including material science, theory of elasticity, soft matter and statistical physics, with a focus on non- equilibrium phenomena, diffusion in micro- & nano-environments and fractional and anomalous diffusion. In biophysics He covered topics such as cancer physics, protein conformational dynamics and diffusion in the cytoskeleton. In the last years He has engaged on Artificial Intelligence applied to healthcare problems.

Francis A. Farrelly

• Ph.D in Electromagnetism
• MSc. in interdisciplinary physics,
  Università di Roma “La Sapienza”

Senior technology officer (CNR-ISC)

Head of Training & Technology Transfer section with extensive expertise in cross-disciplinary innovation. Currently works on machine learning applications in multiple fields; past experience in GP-GPU applications in Mobility for Smart City programs as well as Mobile Health Apps applications and realted privacy issues. In this role he has given an audition to the National Bioethics Committee.

Project/unit head in several projects among which, Frigili, an initiative tailoring smart technology to cater for the needs of senior & handicapped citizens; OmniPolis mobility aspects of CRISIS LAB; EDEN project funded by the European Saferinternet programme; EARS (Environmental Acoustic Reconnaissance and Sounding), funded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI).

Laura Pilozzi

Laura Pilozzi is a senior researcher at CNR-ISC. Her research interest is in theoretical condensed matter physics and photonics. The main themes are related to radiation-matter interaction and polariton states of semiconductors heterostructures as microcavities, resonant photonic crystals and quasicrystals. The nonlinear optical effects and polariton scattering in microcavities are among her research subjects within the composed boson formalism.

Currently her main research topic is on photonic topological insulators with an interest in machine learning approaches for the design of specific structures and the implementation of geometric phases for the realization of logic gates and photonic quantum walks.

She is the ISC unit head in the following projects:

• QUANCOM – devoted to the development of systems and quantum technologies for cyber security in communication networks.
• PNRR National Center CN1 HPC (High Performance Computing) Spoke 10 – Quantum computing

Dionisia Naddeo

Dionisia Naddeo is a Ph.D. candidate in the National Ph.D. program in Artificial Intelligence for Life Sciences. She holds a Master’s degree in Physics from La Sapienza University of Rome, with a focus on Condensed Matter Physics and Solid State Physics. Her research isconducted at the Medical Physics Laboratory of the University of Tor Vergata under the supervision of Prof. Nicola Toschi, and at the CNR Institute for Complex Systems under the supervision of Dr. Alessandro Taloni. Her activities involve the use of artificial intelligence techniques in the fields of medical sciences and neuroscience.

Giulio Costantini

Giulio Costantini is currently a researcher at CNR-ISC in Rome. He graduated in Physics from the University of Camerino and obtained a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the University of Perugia. His research focuses on the dynamics of systems out of equilibrium in various contexts, ranging from the structure of matter to disordered systems, biophysics and statistical physics, also using computational modeling. In particular, in the field of biophysics, he has studied, through computer simulations, the structure of proteins relevant to bio-devices, the dynamics of autocatalytic fibril nucleation and protein polymerization, particularly of neuroserpin, which are been proposed to be determining factors in the spread of various neurological pathologies including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, spongiform encephalopathies and serpinopathies.