CV
Basics
| Name | Lorenzo Di Rocco |
| Label | Postdoc Researcher |
| lorenzo.dirocco@uniroma1.it, lorenzo.dirocco7@gmail.com | |
| Url | https://github.com/ldirocco |
| Summary | Computational genomics researcher working on scalable bioinformatics, graph machine learning, and deep learning for omics data, with a strong focus on high-performance computing and precision medicine. |
Work
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2025.01 - Present Temporary Research Fellow
University of Salerno
Research activity in computational genomics and scalable bioinformatics methods.
- Supervisor: Prof. Alfredo De Santis
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2024.01 - 2025.01 Temporary Research Fellow
Sapienza University of Rome
Research on distributed and scalable solutions for large-scale genomic data analysis.
- Supervisor: Prof. Umberto Ferraro Petrillo
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2023.01 - 2024.01 Research Visitor
Bielefeld University
Collaboration with the Genome Data Science Group on graph machine learning for genome inference and large language models for genomics.
- Supervisor: Prof. Alexander Schönhuth
Education
Publications
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2025.01.01 PatientProfiler: building patient-specific signaling models from proteogenomic data
Molecular Systems Biology
Framework for constructing patient-specific mechanistic models from multi-omics proteogenomic data.
Projects
- 2023.01 - Present
PatientProfiler
Patient-specific mechanistic modeling for precision medicine through multi-omics data integration.
- Precision medicine
- Proteogenomics
- Mechanistic modeling
- 2024.01 - Present
GeniusAssembler
Graph neural network-based approaches for telomere-to-telomere genome assembly.
- Graph Neural Networks
- Genome assembly
- 2024.01 - Present
Hyperbiome
Hyperbolic embeddings for fast and scalable representation of bacterial genomic diversity.
- Hyperbolic embeddings
- Deep learning
- Taxonomic querying
Skills
| Computational Genomics | |
| Bioinformatics | |
| Pangenomics | |
| Variant Calling | |
| Genome Assembly |
| Machine Learning | |
| Deep Learning | |
| Graph Neural Networks | |
| Hyperbolic Embeddings |
| High Performance Computing | |
| Apache Spark | |
| Distributed Computing | |
| GPU Programming |
Languages
| Italian | |
| Native speaker |
| English | |
| Fluent |