I am Full Professor of Computer Science at the Department of Statistical Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, where I also serve as Scientific Director of TeraStat2, the university’s high-performance computing infrastructure.
My academic path started with a degree in Computer Science at the University of Salerno, where I also obtained my PhD in 2002. After postdoctoral positions in Salerno, Rome, and Georgia Tech, I joined Sapienza in 2004, where I have been developing research and teaching activities ever since.
My research interests include High-Performance Computing and Distributed Systems, Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Compressive Genomics, Persistent Homology, and Knowledge Graphs. I am particularly interested in the design of scalable algorithms and computational methods for large-scale biological data analysis, as well as in the development of advanced data integration approaches for complex domains.
Over the years, I have served on the editorial boards of leading journals such as BMC Bioinformatics, Journal of Supercomputing, and GigaByte Journal, and acted as Guest Editor of special issues on topics bridging high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and bioinformatics. I regularly serve on the program committees of major international conferences in the fields of HPC and computational biology, including ACM BCB, ARES, CCGRID, and SC.
I am also actively involved in the Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics (CIBB) conference series. I organized special sessions in the 2023 and 2025 editions, and I will serve as General Chair of CIBB 2026, which will take place in Rome on September 2–4, 2026.