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Name Lorenzo Di Rocco
Label Postdoc Researcher
Email 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

  • 2025.01 - Present
    Temporary Research Fellow
    University of Salerno
    Research activity in computational genomics and scalable bioinformatics methods.
    • Supervisor: Prof. Alfredo De Santis
  • 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
  • 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

  • 2021.01 - 2024.01

    Rome, Italy

    PhD
    Sapienza University of Rome
    Methodological Statistics
  • 2017.01 - 2020.01

    Rome, Italy

    MSc
    Sapienza University of Rome
    Statistical and Decision Sciences

Publications

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