Alessandro Fiori
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| Telephone: | +39 011 090 7084 | |
| Date of birth: | 14/12/1982 | |
| Curriculum vitae e studiorum | Italian version |
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Education and training
Alessandro Fiori is the project manager of Laboratory Assistant Suite (LAS) project at the Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment (IRCC) of Candiolo (Italy), since January 2012.
He was a Post-doctoral researcher at the Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica of the Politecnico di Torino from January 2010 until December 2011.
He attended the Ph.D. in “Information and System Engineering” from January 2007 until December 2009. He spent a period of 6 months (March 2009-August 2009) abroad at Databases and Information Systems Group of “Max-Planck Insitut fur Informatik”, Saarbrucken (Germany). The research activity was focused on the study of the knowledge stored in biological ontologies (e.g. UMLS) in order to extract informative paths.
He holds a laurea degree in Computer Engineering from Politecnico di Torino in November 2006. The title of his thesis was “Classification of genetic data”.
Research
His research activity is focused on the development of a framework to analyse the wealth of public gene expression data and validate the results. The aim of this research is to help geneticists, molecular biologists and medical researchers in the identification of highly selected hypotheses to be further tested in vivo/vitro.
He has been working on feature selection algorithms, to select the most relevant genes under determinate conditions and pathologies. Moreover, he is investigating clustering techniques which weight differently specific features of data in similarity measure computation.
His current research interests include a framework to validate biological analysis results using the knowledge retrieved from research articles stored in PubMed repository.
Research projects
| Title | Web page | Resources |
| Microarray feature selection | Feature selection | Stratified kfold |
| RankGene | ||
| Microarray clustering | Classification Distance | |
| Biological summarizer | BioSumm | |
| Document summarization | Document summarization | |
| Social network mining | Social network mining | |
| Biomedical data management and integration | LAS webiste |
Teaching
He was Lecturer for the following lessons:
| Year | Lesson | Course | University |
| 2013 | Sommarizzazione e Generazione | Internet Festival 2013 | Università di Pisa |
| 2013 | From unstructured data to biological databases: a practical example | Dottorato di Ricerca in Sistemi Complessi per le scienze della vita | Università di Torino |
He was Assistant lecturer for the following courses:
| Academic year | Course | University |
| 2012-2013 | Database Management Systems | Politecnico di Torino |
| 2011-2012 | Database Management Systems | Politecnico di Torino |
| 2010-2011 | Database Management Systems | Politecnico di Torino |
| 2009-2010 | Tecnologia delle basi dati | Politecnico di Torino |
| 2008-2009 | Basi di dati | Politecnico di Torino |
| 2007-2008 | Tecniche e Linguaggi di Programmazione | Politecnico di Torino |
| 2007-2008 | Basi di dati | Politecnico di Torino |
Professional experiences
| From | To | Position | Employer | Project topic |
| February 2013 | Today | Project Manager | Fondazione del Piemonte per l’Oncologia (FPO)- Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment (IRCC) – Candiolo (Italy) |
Laboratory Assistant Suite project |
| March 2013 | April 2013 | Informatic consultant | I.N.B.B. | Single Agent anit-MEK therapy in metastatic colorectal carcinoma: A preclinical trial in patient-derived xenografts transcriptionally enriched for potential responders |
| January 2013 | February 2013 | Informatic consultant | ISKRA di Paolo Griot | Document analysis |
| January 2013 | February 2013 | Informatic consultant | Fondazione del Piemonte per l’Oncologia (FPO) – Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment (IRCC) – Candiolo (Italy) | Heracles project |
| January 2012 | December 2012 | Project Manager | Fondazione Piemontese per la Ricerca sul Cancro – Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment (IRCC) – Candiolo (Italy) | Laboratory Assistant Suite project |
| January 2010 | December 2011 | Post-doc researcher | Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica – Politecnico di Torino | Study of data mining techniques |
| January 2011 | March 2011 | Informatic consultant | Institute for Cancer Research and Treatment (IRCC) – Candiolo (Italy) | Feasibility study of management systems for research laboratories |
| March 2009 | August 2009 | Visiting PhD student | Databases and Information Systems (Gerhard Weikum) – Max-Planck Institut fur Informatik – Saarbrucken (Germany) | Data mining techniques applied to biomedical ontologies |
| January 2007 | December 2009 | PhD in Information and SystemEngineeringXXII cycle | Dipartimento di Automatica e Informatica – Politecnico di Torino | Extraction of biologicalknowledge by means of datamining techniques |
| January 2007 | December 2010 | Informatic consultant | Fondazione IBD Onlus – Torino | Design and develop of web services to manage research activities |
Publications
Under review
- E. Baralis, L. Cagliero, A. Fiori, N.A. Mahoto. Blind submission. In: Data Mining and Analysis in the Engineering Fields (inbook)
Call for chapters
- Innovative Document Summarization Techniques: Revolutionizing Knowledge Understanding. Editor: Alessandro Fiori. Publisher: IGI Global
Workshop
- 1st Workshop on Biological Data mining and Database Applications (BiDaDA) in conjunction with ICDM 2013
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Theses
- Master thesis: Classificazione di dati genetici
- PhD Thesis: Extraction of biological knowledge by means of data mining techniques
Conference material
| Conference | Year | Material |
| AI*IA | 2011 | Presentation |
| CIKM | 2010 | Poster |
| BIBE | 2008 | Poster |
| EMBC | 2008 | Presentation |
| BIBE | 2007 | Presentation |
| EMBC | 2007 | Presentation |