People
People at CMP
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Riccardo Zecchina |
Riccardo Zecchina general interest is in topics at the interface between Statistical Physics, Computer Science, Discrete Mathematics and Information Theory. His current research activity is focused on combinatorial optimization, probabilistic and message-passing algorithms, statistical physics of complex systems, out-of-equilibrium dynamics, analysis of algorithms and interdisciplinary applications of statistical physics. |
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Alessandro Pelizzola |
Alessandro Pelizzola is an Assistant Professor at the Physics Department of Politecnico di Torino. His current research activity is mainly on applications of statistical physics to biological macromolecules, and in particular on protein folding and protein design. He is also active on nonequilibrium statistical physics, especially driven Ising models and fluctuation relations. |
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Andrea Pagnani |
Andrea Pagnani is a Research Scientist at the Human Genetic Foundation (HuGeF-Torino). His background is in Statistical Physics and Disordered Systems, and his scientific work is about: Stochastic growth model of surfaces as KPZ equation, Disordered models of RNA's folding, Spin Glasses, Coloring problem on random graphs, Boolean Networks, Combinatorial inference,Bioinformatics, and Systems Biology. |
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Martin Weigt |
Martin Weigt is a research scientist at the Human Genetics Foundation (HuGeF). His major research interests are the Statistical Physics of complex disordered systems, and its interdisciplinary applications in Computer Science (combinatorial optimization, statistical inference), Graph Theory (random graphs) and Computational Biology (regulatory networks, protein-protein interactions). |
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Abolfazl Ramezanpour |
With a background in Physics, Abolfazl Ramezampour's current interest is statistical physics of complex systems; he is currently working on combinatorial optimization problems and complex network. |
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Alfredo Braunstein |
Alfredo Braunstein earned his Ph.D. in mathematics from SISSA (Trieste) in 2005. His main interests are combinatorial optimization, inference and algorithms. He is also interested in the game of Go and in the subject of computer Go. |
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Andrea Procaccini |
Statistical mechanics and systems biology |
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Blaise Li |
Blaise Li is a phylogeneticist. He is working on the application of message-passing algorithms to the inference of phylogenetic trees. |
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Carlo Baldassi |
With a background in theoretical physics, Carlo Baldassi moved to Complex Systems in Biology, defending a Ph.D. thesis in Computational Neuroscience. His main interest is the development of distributed algorithms for learning and structural inference in the context of Computational Neuroscience, and, more in general, for optimisation problems with potential biological applications. |
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Fabrizio Altarelli |
Combinatorial optimization with message passing algorithms, and its applications |
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Farbod Kayhan |
With a background in Telecommunications, Farbod's current interests are coding theory, combinatorial optimization and message-passing algorithms. |
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Luca Dall'Asta |
Luca Dall'Asta is a theoretical physicist working on the interdisciplinary applications of Statistical Physics, in particular to problems emerging in the fields of Computer Science and Economics. His current research includes combinatorial optimization, coarsening and multiplicative noise in non-equilibrium stochastic processes, game-theoretic problems on graphs and networks. |
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Marc Bailly-Béchet |
Marc Bailly-Béchet earned his Ph.D. in Physics at the Institut Pasteur in June 2007. He has a physicist background, and he applies it to biological problems such as the study of genome sequences properties, gene expression data analysis, or evolution modelling. |
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Pan Zhang |
With a background in theoretical physics, Pan Zhang's current interests are combinatorial optimization problems and message-passing algorithms. |
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Valentina Lanza |
Valentina Lanza received her Ph.D. in Mathematics for Engineering Sciences from Politecnico di Torino in 2008. Her research activity is mainly in the areas of nonlinear dynamical systems and their applications to systems biology. |
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Indaco Biazzo |
Indaco Biazzo is interested in statistical physics and optimization; He is working on prize collecting steiner tree problem. He is also interested in amorphous packings of hard spheres. |
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John Realpe |
John Realpe is studying applications of statistical mechanics of disordered systems to random constraint satisfaction problems and typical case complexity. In particular, he is developing a message passing algorithm for graphical games, budget constraint auctions, and reconstruction of phylogenetic trees. |
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Serena Bradde |
Ph.D. student - Serena Bradde is interested in statistical physics and computational biology; she is developing novel algorithms to efficiently solve the Quadratic Assignment Problem. This can be viewed as the generalization of some NP-hard combinatorial optimization problems such as Maximum Clique, Graph Isomorphism or Travelling Salesman. |
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Mauro Cirio |
Mauro Cirio is doing research for his master's thesis, studying the inverse Ising problem. |