About Fabio Cumbo

I’m a Software Engineer with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Automation Engineering, currently Postdoctoral Researcher at the Blankenberg Lab, Center for Computational Life Sciences, Lerner Research Institute of the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

My scientific portfolio comprising peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, and pre-print manuscripts are available on my Google Scholar profile.

My curriculum vitae is instead available here.

I’m always available for new collaborations! Get in touch with me at fabio.cumbo@gmail.com or cumbof@ccf.org

Research Interests

My research interests include but are not limited to:

  • Bioinformatics: developing new computational methods in Metagenomics for the discovery and characterization of known and yet-to-be-named microbial species;

  • Machine Learning: designing evergy- and memory-efficient machine learning methods for analyzing large-scale biomedical data;

  • Hyperdimensional Computing: developing and applying Hyperdimensional Computing (Vector-Symbolic Architectures) to solve complex problems in artificial intelligence and bioinformatics;

  • Quantum Computing: currently exploring its application to Hyperdimensional Computing and the development of new quantum neuromorphic architectures.

Highlights

DateEvent
08/2024πŸŽ“ Certificate of Quantum Excellence issued by IBM for successfully completing the Qiskit Global Summer School 2024
07/2024πŸ—£οΈ Presented β€œBuilding Vector-Symbolic Architectures with Python” with a talk at PyOhio in Cleveland, OH, USA
03/2024πŸ† Cleveland Clinic Excellence Award in recognition of demonstrated exceptional outstanding achievements
11/2023πŸ—£οΈ Invited speaker at the Institute for Systems Analysis and Computer Science β€œAntonio Ruberti” in Rome, Italy, with two talks titled β€œTowards revealing the hidden diversity of the microbial dark matter and its relation to host health and environmental factors” and β€œComputing with high-dimensional vectors: theory and applications in bioinformatics”
07/2023πŸ—£οΈ Presented β€œInvestigating the known and unknown microbial composition of metagenomic samples made easy with MetaSBT in Galaxy” with a poster and talk at the Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2023) in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
09/2022πŸ—£οΈ Presented β€œFeature selection with vector-symbolic architecture: a casa study on microbial profiles of shotgun metagenomic samples of colorectal cancer” with a poster at the 9th Annual Genetics Education Symposium organized by the Cleveland Clinic Genomic Medicine Institute and the Center for Personalized Genetic Healthcare in Cleveland, OH, USA
08/2022πŸŽ“ Certificate of Quantum Excellence issued by IBM for successfully completing the Qiskit Global Summer School 2022
07/2022πŸ—£οΈ Presented β€œMicrobial Strain Characterization and Subtyping of Metagenome-Assembled Genomes With Sequence Bloom Trees in Galaxy” with a poster and talk at the Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2022) in Minneapolis, MN, USA
05/2022πŸ† Awarded with the Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2022) Fellowship
03/2022🌱 Started a new position as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Blankenberg Lab, Genomic Medicine Institute, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, OH, USA