Gianluca Bontempi

Gianluca Bontempi is a Full Professor in the Computer Science Department at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Brussels, Belgium, co-head of the ULB Machine Learning Group (mlg.ulb.ac.be) and  Walloon Excellence Research Institute (WEL-RI) investigator. He has been Director of (IB)2, the ULB/VUB Interuniversity Institute of Bioinformatics in Brussels (ibsquare.be) in 2013-17. His main research interests are big data mining, machine learning, bioinformatics, causal inference, predictive modelling and their application to complex tasks in engineering (time series forecasting, fraud detection) and life science (network inference, gene signature extraction). He was a Marie Curie fellow researcher, he was awarded in two international data analysis competitions, and he took part in many research projects in collaboration with universities and private companies all over Europe. He is the author of over 250 scientific publications and 2 patents, and his H-number is 70. He has been the Belgian (French Community) president of the TRAIL initiative, co-leader of the CLAIRE COVID-19 Task Force, associate editor of the International Journal of Forecasting and an IEEE Senior Member. He is also a co-author of several open-source software packages for bioinformatics, data mining and prediction.