Gianluca Pollastri

Biography

Research Interests:

• Bioinformatics
• machine learning

General

Name and Title: 

Dr Gianluca Pollastri MSC PhD

Position: 

Senior Lecturer

Phone: 

+353 1 716 5382

Email: 

Office: 

CASL / 3J

Address:
School of Computer Science &
Informatics
UCD Casl
Belfield Office Park, Dublin 4

• Research
• Teaching

Research

Research Interests

• • Bioinformatics,
  • Protein Structure Prediction,
  • Machine Learning,
  • Neural Networks

   There are two main related focuses to my research: one is the development of Machine Learning models for complex structured data; the other is the field of Bioinformatics, and Structural Genomics and Proteomics in particular. The two things are inextricably tied, since virtually all the applicative domains I tested my models on are in molecular biology.
  To get an idea of our ongoing projects, you may check our research blurb, the list of our free tools and servers, or our funding and publication pages.
  

 

Teaching

Teaching Interests

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Recent Postgraduates

• Davide Baú (Ph.D. 2008)

  Catherine Mooney (Ph.D. 2008)

  Ian Walsh (Ph.D. 2008)

  Chresten Søndergaard (Ph.D. 2009)

  Alberto J.Martin-Martin (Ph.D. 2009)

   

Current Postgraduate Students

• Predrag Kukic, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)   -   Thesis Supervisor
• Alessandro Lusci, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)   -   Thesis Supervisor
• Claudio Mirabello, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)   -   Thesis Supervisor
• Alessandro Adelfio, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)   -   Thesis Supervisor
• Viola Volpato, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)   -   Thesis Supervisor

Modules Taught

• 201000   COMP10010     Computer Science: Introduction to Programming I
• 201000   COMP10140     Computer Science: Programming for Radiography I
• 200900   COMP20120     Computer Science: Introduction to Bioinformatics
• 200900   COMP30230     Computer Science: Connectionist Computing
• 200900   COMP40400     Computer Science: Bioinformatics
• 201000   COMP41390     Computer Science: Connectionist Computing