Bellazzi Riccardo

 

Riccardo Bellazzi

Dipartimento di Informatica e Sistemistica

Università degli Studi di Pavia

Via Ferrata 1 27100 Pavia (Italy)

tel: +39-0382-985720

 

tel: +39-0382-985981

 

fax: +39-0382-525638

Current Position

Full Professor of Bioengineering, University of Pavia, Italy
Director, Biomedical Informatics Laboratory "Mario Stefanelli", University of Pavia, Italy
Group Leader, Bioinformatics and Data Mining group, Biomedical Informatics Laboratory "Mario Stefanelli", University of Pavia, Italy (http://bioinfo.unipv.it)
Director, Biomedical Informatics Laboratory, IRCCS Fondazione S. Maugeri, Pavia, Italy

Academic Degree

1993 PhD in Bioengineering
1989 Laurea in Electronic Engineering

Research Interests

Intelligent Data Analysis, Biomedical Data Mining, Bioinformatics, Information Technology infrastructures to support biomedical research, Secondary use of clinical data

Research Grants

Ministry of Education

2007-2010 ITALBIONET: Italian Bioinformatics Network (FIRB), Unit P.I.
2005-2007 Dynamical Models of gene and protein expression data (PRIN), Unit P.I.
2003-2005 Dynamical Models of microarrays gene expression data (PRIN), Unit P.I.
2001-2002 Analysis, Information visualization and visual query in databases for clinical monitoring (PRIN), Unit P.I.

Cariplo Foundation

2008-2011 Bioinformatics for Tissue engineering, P.I.
2009-2010 Sviluppo di una diagnostica molecolare per l'insufficienza ovarica primaria: analisi di diverse coorti di pazienti e genotipizzazione con arrays di SNP ad alta densità, Unit P.I.

Lombardia Region

2011-2012 The Onco-i2b2 project

Health Ministry

2009-2010 Italian Network of Genetic Isolates (INGI): identification of genetic and environmental risk factors for obesity, Unit P.I.

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2006-2009 A.I. Methods in functional genomics, P.I.

European Commission

2011-2015

Mobiguide - UNIPV WP leader

2009-2014

SUMMIT - SUrrogate markers for Micro- and Macro-vascular hard endpoints for Innovative diabetes Tools - UNIPV project leader

2010-2013

Inheritance - INtegrated HEart Research In TrANslational genetics of dilated Cardiomyopathies in Europe, WP leader, UNIPV project leader

2000-2002

Multi-access services for telematic management of diabetes mellitus, Technical project manager

1996-1999 Telematic management of insulin dependent diabetes mellitus, Co-investigator

Editorial boards

2009-today Associate Editor of "BMC Bioinformatics"
2007-today Member of the Editorial Board of "Methods of Information in Medicine"
2006-today Member of the Editorial Board of "Journal of Diabetes Science and Technology"
2005-2010 Associate Editor of "IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine".

Organization of Scientific Events

2012 Track Chairman of the Conference "AMIA SUMMIT on Translational Bioinformatics", San Francisco, March 2012
2011 Chairman of the Workshop "NETTAB on Clinical Bioinformatics", Pavia, October 2011
2010 Co-Chairman of the Scientific Programme Committee of the World Conference of Medical and Health Informatics (MEDINFO), Cape Town, September 2010
2007 Program Chairman of the Conference "Artificial Intelligence in Medicine", Amsterdam, July 2007
1996-2009 SPC member of several conferences and worskhops, including: AMIA (2012), AMIA (2008), AIME (since 2001), Intelligent Data Analysis in Medicine and Pharmacology workshops (since 1996), Diabetes Technology meetings (since 2002), IDA (1997, 2007, 2009), IEEE CBMS (since 2005), PAIS (since 2005)

International and National Organizations, Awards

2010-2013 Member of the Board of the International Medical Informatics Association - Vice President for Medinfo
2009-today Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics
2000-2008 Chairman, Working group of the International Medical Informatics Association on Intelligent Data Analysis and Data Mining
2005-today Member of the American Medical Informatics Association
2005-today Member of the Board of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Society
2007-today Member of the Italian Bioinformatics Association
1992 Second prize at the AMIA Student's paper competition

Recent Invited talks

2011 INFOLAC 2011; – Clinical Data Mining - Guadalajara
2010 International Conference on Case-Based reasoning; – CBR and Bioinformatics - Alessandria
2010 INFORSALUD 2010 - Madrid
2009 Infinitamente – A.I. in Medicine – Sistemi di supporto alle decisioni in medicina - Verona
2008 ICML 2008 – Workshop on Health care applications – Temporal data mining – Helsinki
2008 Brazilian Congress of Health Informatics – Data mining in Health care – San Paulo do Brazil
2008 Diabetes Technology meeting – Data mining for Diabetes management - Washington
2008 10th FISV Congress - Bayesian networks for the integrative analysis of genomic data – Riva del Garda
2007 Medicon 2007 – Telemedicine for Diabetes patients management - Ljubljana

Academic Teaching

Courses

2007-today Probabilistic modelling, Master Degree in Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Italy
2003-today Machine Learning in Biomedicine, Master Degree in Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Italy
2003-today Bioinformatics for genomics and proteomics, Master Degree in Biotechnology in Medicine and Pharmaceutics, University of Pavia, Italy
2001-today Medical Informatics, Bachelor Degree in Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
2004-2008 Software tools and programming, Master in "Complexity and its interdisciplinary applications", Institute of Advanced Studies (IUSS), Pavia, Italy
2001-2003 Mathematical Modeling of Biological Systems, Degree in Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, University of Pavia, Italy
2001-2002 Medical Informatics part A, Diploma in Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy
1998-2001 Bioengineering, Diploma in Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

My performance as a teacher? See the web site: https://valmon.ds.unifi.it/sisvaldidat/unipv/index.php - courses "Informatica Medica" (Ingegneria - Bioingegneria LT) and "Data Mining e Sistemi decisionali in medicina" (Ingegneria - Bioingegneria LM)

Organization

2009-today Member, Research Planning Group, University of Pavia
2004-today Member of the Board of the PhD in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics
2008-today Member of the Planning committee of the Bioengineering courses
2004-2008 Member of the Board of the Master in “Complexity and its interdisciplinary applications”, Institute of Advanced Studies (IUSS), Pavia, Italy
2001-2002 Member, Committee for the evaluation of teaching activity of the Faculty of Engineering, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

Publications

Author of more than 100 publications on international peer reviewed journals and of more than 170 publications in proceedings of international conferences

Publication list in Pubmed

Publication list in Google Scholar

Publication list in the BMI database