Gianni de Fabritiis will present various aspects of machine learning in physics and chemistry which he has worked on, in particular in connection to drug discovery. Starting from learning neural network potentials for atoms to more solution oriented machine learning methods for drug-protein interactions and protein foldings.
This Open Talent will be held in English.
The speaker
Gianni de Fabritiis, ICREA research professor and CEO of Acellera.
ICREA research professor, associate professor and group leader of the Computational Science Laboratory at UPF, and CEO/CSO at Acellera Ltd. Bachelor degree with honors in applied mathematics (1997) by the University of Bologna and a PhD by University of London (2002). He worked for the CINECA supercomputing center in Italy (1998-1999) and was a postdoctoral researcher at University College London (2003-2006). In 2006, he founded Acellera Ltd where he acts as director. By 2008 he won a tenure-track Ramon y Cajal research position and later the national I3-tenured program. In 2014, he became ICREA Research Professor. He performed research stays as visiting professor at Stanford University and at UCLA. He has published over 110 articles in high-ranking international journals with an h-index of 38, 6000 citations and 1150 citations per year in 2020.
