Ferrazzi Fulvia
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Born in Pavia on July 4th, 1979Dipartimento di Informatica e SistemisticaUniversità degli Studi di PaviaVia Ferrata 1 27100 Pavia (Italy)tel: +39-0382-985511fax: +39-0382-525638 |
Current Position
| Post-doc Researcher, Department of Computer Engineering and Systems Science University of Pavia, Italy |
Academic Degree
| 2007 | Ph.D. in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics, University of Pavia, Italy. Thesis: Dynamic Bayesian Networks to Identify Gene Expression Control Structures: an Application to the Human Cell Cycle |
| 2003 | Laurea (Master's degree) in Computer Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Pavia, Italy. Thesis: Bayesian clustering of time series in functional genomics problems Score: 110 out of 110 cum laude |
Research Interests
| The main research topics are: Bayesian methods for genomic data analysis, Bayesian networks and Bayesian clustering methods for gene expression time series, probabilistic graphical models, reverse engineering of cellular systems. |
Research Training
| Jan-Feb 2008 | Visiting researcher, Max-Planck-Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Dr. F. Engel |
| 2003-2007 | Ph.D. Student, Laboratory for Biomedical Informatics, Department of Computer Engineering and Systems Science, University of Pavia |
| June-Aug 2006 | Visiting student, Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, MA |
| Sept 2004-Aug 2005 | Visiting Student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, and Children's Hospital Informatics Program, Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Boston, MA |
Awards
| 2008 | Exchange Grant from the European Science Foundation Programme on Frontiers of Functional Genomics to spend 8 weeks at the Max-Planck-Institute for Heart and Lung Research working in Dr. Engel´s group (Heart Development and Regeneration) |
| 2007 | 3-year Investigator Fellowship “Alunno Speciale Mintas”, Centre for Communication and Research, Collegio Ghislieri, Pavia |
| 2007 | Diploma from Graduate Program of the Institute for Advanced Study, Pavia |
| 2004 | Winner of a nationwide competition for Ph.D. students promoted by the MIT/Italy Consortium to go to MIT as Visiting student for one year |
| 2003 | Diploma from Undergraduate Program of the Institute for Advanced Study, Pavia |
| 1998-2003 | Member of Collegio Ghislieri, Pavia |
Academic Teaching (Teaching assistant)
| 2007-today | “Modelli probabilistici in medicina” (Probabilistic models in medicine), Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering, University of Pavia |
| 2005-today | “Bioinformatica applicata alla genomica e proteomica” (Bioinformatics applied to Genomics and Proteomics), Master’s degree in Biotechnology in Medicine and Pharmaceutics, University of Pavia |
| 2003-today | “Apprendimento Automatico in Biomedicina” (Machine Learning in Biomedicine”), Master’s degrees in Biomedical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering, University of Pavia |