CHICCO DAVIDE

Role
Assistant Professor  
Academic disciplines
Informatics (INFO-01/A)
Scientific-Disciplinary Group:
INFORMATICS (01/INFO-01)
Email
[email protected]
Office phone
0264487905
Room:
  • U14, Floor: 1, Room: 1019
Reception hours

Su appuntamento

Biography

Davide Chicco is a scientific researcher who works in computational intelligence, bioinformatics, and health informatics. In the past, he has worked at the University of Toronto (Canada) and in other scientific research centres in Toronto. He is the author of the article "The advantages of the Matthews correlation coefficient (MCC) over F1 score and accuracy in binary classification evaluation", he has been a general chair for the CIBB 2021 conference, and he is a scientific associate editor for the PeerJ Computer Science and BMC Bioinformatics journal.

Publications

  • Chicco, D., Oneto, L. (2026). Eleven quick tips to reduce overfitting in machine learning. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DATA SCIENCE AND ANALYTICS, 22(1) [10.1007/s41060-026-01246-y]. Detail

  • Chicco, D., Melzi, S., Gasparini, F., Jurman, G. (2026). The advantages of our proposed Saturn coefficient over continuity and trustworthiness for UMAP dimensionality reduction evaluation. PEERJ. COMPUTER SCIENCE, 12 [10.7717/peerj-cs.3424]. Detail

  • Cumbo, F., Chicco, D., Aygun, S., Blankenberg, D. (2026). Designing vector-symbolic architectures for biomedical applications: ten tips and common pitfalls. PEERJ. COMPUTER SCIENCE, 12 [10.7717/peerj-cs.3682]. Detail

  • Cumbo, F., Dhillon, K., Joshi, J., Chicco, D., Aygun, S., Blankenberg, D. (2026). A novel Vector-Symbolic Architecture for graph encoding and its application to viral pangenome-based species classification. BIODATA MINING, 19(1) [10.1186/s13040-026-00561-1]. Detail

  • Cumbo, F., Dhillon, K., Joshi, J., Raubenolt, B., Chicco, D., Aygun, S., et al. (2026). Predicting the Toxicity of Chemical Compounds via Hyperdimensional Computing. MOLECULAR INFORMATICS, 45(9) [10.1002/minf.70052]. Detail

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Awards

Research and teaching assignments

  • Ricercatore/Ricercatrice universitario a t.d. - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2024 - 2026
  • Ricercatore/Ricercatrice all’estero - Ricercatore presso Peter Munk Cardiac Centre (University Health Network, Ontario, Canada) - University Health Network, 2018 - 2019
  • Ricercatore/Ricercatrice all’estero - Ricercatore presso Krembil Research Institute (University Health Network, Ontario, Canada) - University Health Network, 2020 - 2021
  • Ricercatore/Ricercatrice all’estero - Ricercatore scientifico - University of Toronto, 2021
  • Ricercatore/Ricercatrice universitario a t.d. - Università degli Studi di MILANO-BICOCCA, 2023 - 2024

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