Davide Chicco

Davide Chicco

e-mail: davide.chicco-at-unimib.it

DISCo (Department of Informatics, Systems and Communication)
University of Milano-Bicocca
Viale Sarca 336, Building U14

Room 1049, tel: +390264487916

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BIOGRAPHY

Davide Chicco received his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in computer science from the Università di Genova (Genoa, Italy) and then a Ph.D. degree in computer engineering from the Politecnico di Milano University (Milan, Italy) in 2014, spending a doctoral semester as a visiting doctoral scholar with the University of California Irvine (California USA). He then moved to Toronto (Ontario, Canada) where he worked as a postdoctoral researcher and as a scientific associate at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, the Peter Munk Cardiac Centre, the Krembil Research Institute, and then at the University of Toronto. He joined Università di Milano-Bicocca as an assistant professor in summer 2023.
His research interests include machine learning applied to health informatics (in particular, data from electronic health records), bioinformatics (data of gene expression), and statistical metrics to assess classification and regression, with a particular interest in
the Matthews correlation coefficient.
He has been the general chair of the CIBB 2021 conference, and has served as associate editor for the BMC Bioinformatics and the PeerJ
Computer Science journals.
He’s the main author of the scientific article “The advantages of the Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) over F1 score and accuracy in binary classification evaluation.

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