Salvatore Alaimo

He was born in Catania (CT) on August 29th, 1988.
He received his Master's Degree in Computer Science in 2012 with a vote of 110/110 cum laude.
In November 2012, he enrolled in the Ph.D. program in Computer Science (XXVIII cycle) at the University of Catania. He obtained his Ph.D. in Computer Science on February 8th, 2016, with a thesis entitled "From diagnosis to therapy: algorithmic methodologies for precision medicine."

From August 2016, he became Research Fellow in Computer Science at the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, University of Catania.

From May 2nd, 2018, to May 1st, 2021, he was a Researcher (art. 28 c.3-a L. 240/10) in Computer Science (INF/01) at the University of Catania.
From December 1st, 2021, he is a Researcher (art. 28 c.3-b L. 240/10) in Computer Science (INF/01) at the University of Catania.

His current research activity deals with large databases, bioinformatics, and biomedicine. In particular, his research focuses on the study of methodologies and algorithms for the analysis and interpretation of genomic and transcriptomic data for research and the clinic, the development of simulation methodologies of biological phenomena for in silico clinical trials, and the development of Data Mining and Machine Learning methods on biological data and in particular for the analysis and prediction through biological networks. Furthermore, he deals with computational methodologies for the inference of knowledge networks starting from biomedical literature through NLP techniques and artificial intelligence applied to the understanding of texts. In collaboration with the University of Pisa for the latter project, he was selected for the Google Research Innovators program.

Furthermore, it actively collaborates with New York University (NYU) to develop drug repurposing and Data Integration methodologies and the Max Planck Institute - Center for Systems Biology Dresden to study computational methods to evaluate degenerative liver diseases. He has been a speaker in various national and international contexts. He serves as a reviewer on several international conferences and journals. He has been Visiting Researcher several times at the Courant Institute of New York University, and every year he spends one-month visits at the same institute.