Cinzia Pizzi's Research

Participation in Research Project
- Activity 3, spoke 2, NBFC - National Biodiversity Future Center, PNRR. From 1/9/2022 - current; Role: participant, computational aspects;

- Department Project (SID): ''Algorithms for Networks Analysis and Bioinformatics Applications''; PI Prof. F.Vandin, dal 19/09/2017 to 19/09/2019;
- Project of National Interest (PRIN): ''Compositional approaches for the characterization and mining of omics data'', Role: Principal Investigator; from 17/03/2014 to 17/03/2017; 391929 euro Project web site
- University project: ''Pattern discovery and computational problems for whole genomes comparison'', Role: participant, 2012-2013
- University project: ''Computational Assessment of Protein–Protein Interaction Networks and Validation as a Guide for Modern System Biology'', Role:participant, 2008–2010
- CARIPARO projects of excellence: ''Systems Biology approaches to infer gene and protein time-series expression data'', Role: participant; from 01-07-2008 al 31-12-2011
- European project HuBi - Hungarian Bioinformatics MTKD-CT-2006-042794 with a Marie Curie Host Fellowships for Transfer of Knowledge, 2010
- FIRB Projects (Fundings on fundational research) Italy-Israel ''Pattern Discovery in Discrete Structures, with Applications to Bioinformatics'', Role: participant; from 01-07-2006 to 30-06-2010
- EU Project ''Regulatory Genomics'' 2004-2008, University of Helsinki, Finland. Role: participant;
from 15-09-2005 to 30-11-2006


 - Project of National Interest (PRIN): ''Metodologie di data mining per le applicazioni di e-business'', Role; participant; from 01-01-2005 to 31-12-2006
- EU Marie Curie Early Stage Fellowship at European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), 2005

I had my Ph.D. from the Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, Italy in 2005 under the supervision of Prof. Alberto Apostolico.

Appointments:
- Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering (DEI) of the University of Padova, since 2019
- Assistant Professor at the Department of Information Engineering (DEI) of the University of Padova, since 2011 - Senior Research Fellow, DEI, University of Padova, 2008-2011
- PostDoctoral Researcher, Baobab Team (with M.-F. Sagot), University of Lyon I (INRIA fellowship), France, 2007
- PostDoctoral Researcher, dept. Computer Science, University of Helsinki and From Data to Knowledge Center of Excellence (with E.Ukkonen), 2005-2006
- Marie-Curie Early Stage Fellowship at European Bionformatics Institute, Hinxton, Cambridge, UK, 2005

Visiting Scientist at:
- Renyi Institute of Mathematics of the Hungarian Academy of Science (2010)
- GeorgiaTech (2009)
- Purdue University (2004)

Awards:
- "Avere Trent'anni" research award from the University of Padova, assigned by a commission with both academic and industrial representatives among young researchers of the whole University, 2008
- Outstanding Young Researcher, Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova, 2010

I am a member of the inter-departments Research Center HIT (Human Inspired Technology) of the University of Padova since its fundation in 2013. I was also a member of the Ethic Committee of the Center in 2014-2017.

Reviewer for International Journals:
- Nature - Scientific Reports
- Plos Computational Biology
- BMC Bioinformatics
- Bioinformatics
- Theoretical Computer Science
- BMC Algorithms for Molecular Biology
- IEEE Transaction in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
- Knowledge and Information Systems
- iScience
- International Journal of Bioinformatics Research and Applications
- Journal of Discrete Algorithms

Organizing Committees
- RECOMB 2021: Member of the Organizing committee
- RECOMB 2021: Satellites Local Chair
- RECOMB 2020: Member of the Organizing committee
- RECOMB 2020: Satellites Local Chair
- BITS 2020: Conference of the Bioinformatics Italian Society. Expected role: co-chair. The conference did not take place due to the pandemic
- Workshop on algorithms and tools for the analysis of big omics data, co-located with BITS 2019. General Co-Chair together with Simona E. Rombo and Fabio Fassetti
- Genome Compression Day, main organizer, Padova, 10th September 2018
- AxA Workshop: Advanced Algorithms on strings: Organizing Committee co-chair
- RECOMB 2006: Organizing Committee Member
- Dialogues 2004: joint event including: Symposium on String Processing and Information Retrieval (SPIRE), Discovery Science (DS), and Algorithmic Learning Theory (ALT): Organizing committee member.
- ESSIR2000: European Summer School in Information Retrieval. Student volunteer.

Program Committees

Co-chair of RECOMB-Seq (co-chair) 2021

Participation to PC:
Current (2022/2023): RECOMB2022, SPIRE2023, CIBB2023, ICTCS2023, EPIA2023
Past PC memberships: RECOMB, CPM, SPIRE, WABI, ITBAM, Global Health, EPIA - Artificial Intelligence in Medicine track, CiE, BIGPMED