Dr. Fabio Rinaldi is head of NLP research at

IDSIA The Dalle Molle Institute for Artificial Intelligence (, IDSIA) is a research institute in the Lugano district of Canton Ticino, in southern Switzerland. It was founded in 1988 by Angelo Dalle Molle through the private Fondation Dalle Molle, a ...

Switzerland Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a landlocked country located in west-central Europe. It is bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland ...

. He earned his PhD in

Computational Linguistics Computational linguistics is an interdisciplinary field concerned with the computational modelling of natural language, as well as the study of appropriate computational approaches to linguistic questions. In general, computational linguistics ...

from the

University of Zurich The University of Zurich (UZH, ) is a public university, public research university in Zurich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 from the existing colleges of the ...

, Switzerland in 2008. He continued to work at the University of Zurich as a lecturer, senior researcher and group leader until 2020. Currently, Rinaldi is a group leader at the

Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics The SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics is an academic not-for-profit foundation which federates bioinformatics activities throughout Switzerland. The institute was established on 30 March 1998 and its mission is to provide core bioinform ...

(SIB), and a visiting scientist at the Center for Genomic Sciences (

UNAM The National Autonomous University of Mexico (, UNAM) is a public research university in Mexico. It has several campuses in Mexico City, and many others in various locations across Mexico, as well as a presence in nine countries. It also has 34 ...

, Mexico), where he collaborates with the

RegulonDB RegulonDB is a database of the Systems biology, regulatory network of gene expression in Escherichia coli, ''Escherichia coli'' K-12.{{Cite journal, last=Gama-Castro, first=Socorro, last2=Salgado, first2=Heladia, last3=Santos-Zavaleta, first3=Alber ...

group. He is the initiator and team leader of the OntoGene research group, which focuses on

Text Mining Text mining, text data mining (TDM) or text analytics is the process of deriving high-quality information from text. It involves "the discovery by computer of new, previously unknown information, by automatically extracting information from differe ...

for biomedical applications. Rinaldi is a very active contributor to the field of

biomedical text mining Biomedical text mining (including biomedical natural language processing or BioNLP) refers to the methods and study of how text mining may be applied to texts and literature of the biomedical domain. As a field of research, biomedical text mining i ...

. He is one of the co-organizers of the well-known BioCreAtIvE challenges on evaluation of biomedical text mining technologies.

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profile at IDSIA

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