Francesco Rinaldi is Full Professor at the Department of Mathematics “Tullio Levi-Civita”, University of Padova.

He is also coordinator of the Data Science Master’s Programme at the University of Padova.

He received the M.S. degree in computer engineering and the Ph.D. degree in operations research from the Sapienza University of Rome, in 2005 and 2009, respectively.

He served as organizing/program committee member and as session/minisymposium organizer at many international conferences. He was also invited speaker at more than 40 international conferences and university seminars.

He received a number of research grants for his research (e.g., ARISLA 2021 grant).

He published over 50 papers in toptier academic journals including SIAM Journal on Optimization, Mathematical Programming Computation, Mathematics of Operations Research, Bioinformatics, IEEE Transactions, Molecular Neurodegeneration.

His current research interests include optimization for big data, network science, machine learning for medicine and biology.

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