About Fabio Cumbo
Iβm 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, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
Have a look at my professional profile, including my working experiences, achievements, and academic contributions, on my Curriculum Vitae.
You can find all my published scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, conference proceedings, and pre-prints on my Google Scholar profile.
Iβm 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: with a research experience of over 10 years, my interests cover a wide spectrum of research areas under the bioinformatics domain with a particular emphasis on Metagenomics and the design of new computational techniques for the characterization of known and yet-to-be-named microbial species.
Machine Learning: experienced in teaching modern Big Data Analytics and Visualization techniques, I also designed novel energy- and memory-efficient machine learning methods for dealing with massive amounts of biomedical data with commodity hardware as well as in distributed environments.
Hyperdimensional Computing: a.k.a. Vector-Symbolic Architectures, this is an emerging way of computing with vectors in a high-dimensional space. As a new computational paradigm, it has an innumerable fields of application, including artificial intelligence, cognitive science, robotics, natural language processing, bioinformatics, and the internet of things, among other scientific disciplines.
Highlights
Date | Event |
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03/2024 | π Cleveland Clinic Excellence Award in recognition of demonstrated exceptional outstanding achievements |
11/2023 | π£οΈ Invited speaker at the Institute for Systems Analysis and Computer Science βAntonio Rubertiβ in Rome, Italy, with two talks titled βTowards revealing the hidden diversity of the microbial dark matter and its relation to host health and environmental factorsβ and βComputing with high-dimensional vectors: theory and applications in bioinformaticsβ |
07/2023 | π£οΈ Presented βInvestigating the known and unknown microbial composition of metagenomic samples made easy with MetaSBT in Galaxyβ with a poster and talk at the Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2023) in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
09/2022 | π£οΈ Presented βFeature selection with vector-symbolic architecture: a casa study on microbial profiles of shotgun metagenomic samples of colorectal cancerβ 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 |
08/2022 | π Certificate of Quantum Excellence issued by IBM for successfully completing the Qiskit Global Summer School 2022 |
07/2022 | π£οΈ Presented βMicrobial Strain Characterization and Subtyping of Metagenome-Assembled Genomes With Sequence Bloom Trees in Galaxyβ with a poster and talk at the Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2022) in Minneapolis, MN, USA |
05/2022 | π Awarded with the Galaxy Community Conference (GCC2022) Fellowship |
03/2022 | π± Started a new position as Postdoctoral Fellow at the Blankenberg Lab, Genomic Medicine Institute, Lerner Research Institute, Cleveland Clinic, OH, USA |