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Pietro Di Lena

Associate Professor

Department of Computer Science and Engineering

Academic discipline: INFO-01/A Informatics

Research

Keywords: Computational Biology Protein Structure Prediction Cellular Automata Bioinformatics Complex Systems Discrete Dynamical Systems

The research activity of Pietro Di Lena focuses on  Complex Systems,  Bioinformatcs and Computational Biology. In the context of Complex Systems, the research activity of Pietro Di Lena focuses on the investigation of computational properties of a specific class of Discrete Dynamical Systems, known as Cellular Automata. In particular, in this area his research activity is mainly oriented to the investigation of possibile intersections between Computation Theory and Dynamical Systrem theory.  In the context of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology the research activity focuses on the development of heuristic algorithms for the computationally hard problems in computational biology. In particular, Pietro Di Lena developed efficient methods for the reconstruction of protein three-dimensional structure from their map of contacts, alignment algorithms for contact maps and subgraph-matching procedures for biological networks. Furthermore he developed Machine Learning-based methods for the prediction of structural features in proteins, such as prediction of protein contact maps.

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