Author

Sergio Decherchi received the Laurea degree (summa cum laude) in electronic engineering from Genoa University, Italy, in 2007, and the Ph.D. degree in electronic engineering and computer science on machine learning and data mining from the Department of Biophysics and Electronic Engineering (DIBE), Genoa University, in 2011. From 2011 to 2016, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Department of Drug Discovery and Development (D3), Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), Genoa, Italy, where he designed, developed, and applied computational intelligence/chemistry methods to drug discovery. He is the Designer and Developer of NanoShaper, a tool for molecular surface computation and pocket detection. In 2014, he co-founded BiKi Technologies s.r.l., a company dealing with molecular dynamics and machine learning methods for drug discovery. From 2017 to 2022, he was a Technologist with IIT. In 2022, he obtained the national habilitation as an Associate Professor in computer science. Since 2023, he has been the Coordinator of the Data Science and Computation IIT Facility. He is the author of 70+ papers in peer-reviewed journals and conferences in the fields of computational intelligence and computational chemistry. He has received some awards, EU/national/private grants, delivered several invited talks/lectures, and co-organized some workshops (e.g. ECAM/CECAM). He is a reviewer for EU and national funding agencies.