Nelson Nazzicari, Ph.D.
Bioinformatics, genomic predictions, machine/deep learning, SNP calling, all things biomodeling

Tenured Scientist @ CREA - Council for Agricultural Research and Analysis of Agricultural Economics
Research Centre for Animal Production and Aquaculture
Viale Piacenza, 29 - 26900 Lodi, Italy

• nelson.nazzicari [at] crea.gov.it
• my ResearchGate
• my Google Scholar
• my institutional CREA/Genleg page

Research topics

• Statistics and machine learning for inference and prediction
• Genomics & co: population structure, genomic selection, association and diversity studies, metagenomics
• Next Generation Sequencing: variant calling and related topics

Dissemination

• founding member of The Bioinformateachers :)
• member of Comintart (Italian Committee for Artificial Intellingence)
• teacher at Physalia school in Berlin:
  • [since 2020] Introduction to Deep Learning
  • [since 2022] Data visualization in Python
• webmaster, Social Media Manager and member of The international Legume Society
• affiliated to the Centre of Excellence for Biodiversity and Molecular Plant Breeding based in Zagreb, Croatia

Research positions

• [since Nov 2019] Scientist (then tenured scientist) at CREA
  • started working at CREA in September 2014 as a post doc
• [Jan 2013 – Aug 2015] Hired scientist/statistician at PTP – Parco Tecnologico Padano, Lodi, Italy
• [Oct 2011 – Jan 2013] Post doc and contracted professor at University of Pavia, Italy, Faculty of Engineering
  • Professor for the course: “Fondamenti di informatica B, (Modulo di Fondamenti di Informatica) ING-INF/05”, focused on C programming
• [Aug 2009 – Sept 2011] Research scholar at George Mason University, Center for Secure Information Systems, Fairfax, Virginia, USA

Alumni

Very smart people which I had the honor of mentoring:

• Harkingto Harkingto (2023-ongoing)
• Margherita Crosta (2021 – ongoing)
• Salvador Osuna Caballero (2022)
• Verónica Vanesa Ergo (2021)
• Zoe Andrijanić (2021)
• Chahira Achir (2018)
• Cristina Monterrubio Martin (2018)
• Tommaso Bardelli (2018)

Education

• [2005-2008] Doctor of Philosophy in Informatics and Electrics Engineering
• [2003-2005] Master of Science (Informatics Engineering), cum Laude
• [2000-2003] Bachelor of Science (Informatics Engineering), cum Laude