About Fabio Cumbo

I’m a Software Engineer and Researcher with a Ph.D. in Computer Science and Automation Engineering, currently a Research Associate at the Blankenberg Lab, Computational Life Sciences, Cleveland Clinic Research, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.

My work sits at the intersection of bioinformatics, machine learning, and hyperdimensional computing — building computational tools and methods to tackle open challenges in microbial genomics and biomedical data analysis.

My scientific portfolio — peer-reviewed journal articles, conference proceedings, and pre-print manuscripts — is available on my Google Scholar profile. My curriculum vitae can be downloaded here.

Always open to new collaborations — feel free to reach out at fabio.cumbo@gmail.com or cumbof@ccf.org.

Research Interests

My research interests include but are not limited to:

• Bioinformatics: developing computational methods in metagenomics for the discovery and characterization of known and yet-to-be-named microbial species, with a focus on strain-level taxonomy and large-scale metagenomic profiling;

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

• Hyperdimensional Computing: developing and applying Hyperdimensional Computing (Vector-Symbolic Architectures) to artificial intelligence and bioinformatics problems, including classification and feature selection on high-dimensional metagenomic data;

• Quantum Computing: exploring the intersection of quantum computing and Hyperdimensional Computing, and the development of new quantum neuromorphic architectures.

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