Francesca Vitali, PhD

As a researcher at the Center for Innovation in Brain Science, Dr. Vitali focuses on the development of computational methods to support precision medicine, drug repurposing and poly-pharmacology. Her background includes data mining, statistics, graph theory, machine learning, artificial intelligence and data integration techniques. She has a long record of working in multi-disciplinary collaborative teams, including collaborations with international laboratories and pharmaceutical companies (Sanofi and AstraZeneca). She is the organizer and instructor of a monthly workshop on the use of Orange, an open-source tool for data visualization, machine learning and data mining.