Cinzia Pizzi is an Associate Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at the Department of Information Engineering and a member of the Board of Directors of the second-level Master’s program in “Analysis of Omics Data” at the University of Padova, Italy. Previously, she held appointments at the University of Helsinki (Finland) and INRIA (France). She was also a Marie Curie Early-Stage Fellow at the European Bioinformatics Institute (UK) and a visiting scholar at Purdue University (USA), Georgia Tech (USA), and the Rényi Institute of Mathematics (Hungary). Cinzia Pizzi’s main research interests focus on the design and development of efficient algorithms and data structures for the analysis of omics sequences, with applications in genomics and metagenomics. In particular, she has strong expertise in designing compact approaches to reduce the size of the search space with formal guarantees, as well as in alignment-free techniques. More recently, she has been engaged in the study of expressive sequence encodings for AI-based analysis.
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