CHICCO DAVIDE

Role
Assistant Professor  
Academic disciplines
Informatics (INFO-01/A)
Scientific-Disciplinary Group:
INFORMATICS (01/INFO-01)
Office phone
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

  • Samuel, N., Germann, J., Yang, A., Sarica, C., Boutet, A., Vetkas, A., et al. (2026). Data-driven probabilistic mapping of the spatial and molecular landscape of glioma. BRAIN COMMUNICATIONS, 8(1) [10.1093/braincomms/fcaf459]. Detail

  • Chicco, D., Coelho, V. (2025). A teaching proposal for a short course on biomedical data science. PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, 21(4) [10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012946]. Detail

  • Oneto, L., Chicco, D. (2025). Nine quick tips for trustworthy machine learning in the biomedical sciences. PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, 21(10) [10.1371/journal.pcbi.1013624]. Detail

  • Oneto, L., Chicco, D. (2025). Eight quick tips for biologically and medically informed machine learning. PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, 21(1) [10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012711]. Detail

  • Ribino, P., Mannone, M., Di Napoli, C., Paragliola, G., Chicco, D., Gasparini, F. (2025). Temporal phenotyping and prognostic stratification of patients with sepsis through longitudinal clustering. BIODATA MINING, 18(1) [10.1186/s13040-025-00480-7]. Detail

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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