Home page of Marco Pellegrini

Hello and welcome to my homepage.

My curriculum vitae

• Education, Past positions, Present position.
• Service, Interests.
• Publications by subject. Publications by type, but see also the my DBLP page , or my Google scholar page , or my ACM Author Page .
• A more complete list of my activities is in my CV in English (updated as of April 2022).

Currently funded projects

• We are a unit of the PNRR-funded project THE (Tuscany Health Ecosystem), for the sub-project "A Computational Platform for future diagnostic" NEW!

Editorial work

• Research Topic Co-Editor of Frontiers . Research Topic on Insights in Computational Genomics: 2022 (with. Richard D. Emes , Mehdi Pirooznia, and Quan Zou)
• Associate Editor for Bioinformatics and Artificial Intelligence for Molecular Medicine , section of Frontiers in Molecular Medicine
• Research Topic Co-Editor of Frontiers . Research Topic on "Network Bioscience - volume II" (with. M. Antoniotti and B. Mishra )
• Topic Editor of MDPI Biology
• Associate Editor of BMC Cancer (Part of Springer-Nature)
• Associate Editor for Computational Genomics , section of Frontiers in Genetics .
• Research Topic Co-Editor of Frontiers . Research Topic on "Network Bioscience" (with. M. Antoniotti and B. Mishra)
• Guest Editor of Frontiers . Research Topic on "Repetitive structures in biological sequences: algorithms and applications" (with A. Magi and C.S. Iliopoulos)

New stuff

• I started a blog (in English and Italian) fenomenologismi for posting short articles on topics of wider cultural interest including: Artificial Intelligence, Ethics in Research, Philosophy of Science, etc..
• Invited talk at the panel 'AI and Prognosis of Prostate Cancer' at the the XXXI Annual Congress of AURO.it (Italian Association of Urologists). Rimini, May 16-18, 2024.
• Italian Patent n. 102019000019571. Method for Creating a Coherent Voting Network. Beneficiary: Consiglio Nazionale Delle Ricerche. See also US Patent application
• I am Director of Research as of Jan 1st, 2021.
• Algorithms for Precision Medicine (Video in Italian), with Romina D'Aurizio.
• Member of the Program Committee of The Web Conference 2025 (formerly known as WWW) (Track on Social Networks and Graph Analysis) , 28 April - 2 May 2025, Sydney, Australia.
• Member of the Program Committee of WSDM 2025 The 18th ACM International on Web Search and Data Mining, Hannover, Germany - March 10th-14th, 2025.
• Member of the Program Committee of The Web Conference 2024 (formerly known as WWW) (Track on Social Networks and Graph Analysis) ,May 13-17, 2024, Singapore.
• Member of the Program Committee of WSDM 2024 The 17th ACM International on Web Search and Data Mining, Merida, Mexico - March 4-8, 2024.
• Member of the Program Committee of The Web Conference 2023 (formerly known as WWW) (Track on Social Networks and Graph Analysis) , April 30- May 4, 2023, Austin, Texas, USA.
• Member of the Program Committee of European Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Applications - EUROCOMB 2023 Prague, September 2023.
• Member of the Program Committee of WSDM 2023 The 16th ACM International on Web Search and Data Mining, Singapore - February 27 to March 3, 2023.
• Member of steering committee for the Tuscany Bioinformatics Days - Bioinformatiha
• Activities of the BioAlgo Group of IIT in Bio-informatics have produced Amic@ a web-based tool for clustering microarray data (See article in the 2008 NAR Web Server issue ) and TReaDS a meta search engine for finding Tandem Repeats in DNA sequences. More details are in the BioAlgo Group web page.
• Activities of the WebAlgo Group of IIT in Information Retrieval and Data Mining for the World Wide Web have produced several tools and software packages. In particular I have participated in developing:
  • Armil a Clustering Meta-search Engine that allows users to send queries simultaneously to Google and Yahoo. The snippets returned by Google and Yahoo are grouped by Armil into homogeneous groups by topic.
  • Community Watch is a tool for visualizing dense subgraphs of several snapshots of the web graph: the whole web in 2001, the national domain.it of year 2004 and the national domain .uk of year 2005. See article in WWW 2007
  • VISTO is a tool for making on-the-fly personalized static summaries of short videos.

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