Connectionists: Computer Science Assistant Professor positions for the “National Center for Gene Therapy and Drugs based on RNA Technology”

[Giorgio Valentini]

Call for 2 Computer Science positions at Assistant professor level at 
the Department of Computer Science of the University of Milan (Italy) 
for the NextGenerationEU project “National Center for Gene Therapy and 
Drugs based on RNA Technology” funded by the Italy’s recovery and 
resilience plan (PNRR)

The project includes more than 40 Universities, Research Centers and 
Companies with the objective of developing innovative RNA drugs for the 
therapy of cancer, genetic and neuro-degenerative and infective 
diseases, with an overall budget of about 400M Euros.

In this context the Spoke n. 7 – Biocomputing of the consortium funds 2 
Assistant Professor positions (italian RTDA) for the project “Graph 
Representation Learning methods for the analysis of biomedical Knowledge 
Graphs”, under the supervision of prof. Giorgio Valentini (Computer 
Science Dept. of the University of Milan).
The main goal of the project is to design and develop Graph 
Representation Learning methods for the analysis of heterogeneous graphs 
and for the construction of biomedical Knowledge Graphs. The developed 
methods will be applied to the analysis of Knowledge Graphs for drug 
repurposing, drug-target prediction and other node label and edge 
prediction biomedical problems, with a particular focus on RNA drugs for 
the therapy of cancer and genetic diseases.

Scientific director of the project: prof. Giorgio Valentini

Required commitment : full time

Possible candidates are PhDs having a background in Machine Learning 
and/or DataBase and/or Bioinformatics with a propensity for applications 
in the bio-medical field.

Specific functions that the researcher is called to perform:

• Scientific functions: The first RTDA position will concern the 
development of Graph Representation Learning methods based on random 
walk and Graph Neural Network specifically designed to solve relevant 
Network Medicine problems. The second RTDA position will concern both 
the development of methods for the construction of biomedical Knowledge 
Graphs, and the application of Graph Representation Learning and 
graph-based methods for their analysis. A significant part of the 
research activities will involve the efficient software implementation 
of algorithms for the construction and analysis of Knowledge Graphs 
capable of scaling with large heterogeneous graphs.

• Teaching functions: connected to the coverage needs of laboratories / 
fundamental courses of the Degrees Bachelor's and Master's of the 
Computer Science Department (in English language) and / or basic service 
courses provided by the Department for other degree courses related to 
the topics of interest of the PNRR project.

The research activities will take place at the Computer Science 
Department of the University of Milan, in collaboration with other 
national and international research centers involved in the research 
project itself.

The call for applications for the RTDA positions is available at the 
following link (sorry at the moment is in Italian only):

https://www.unimi.it/it/ateneo/lavora-con-noi/reclutamento-ricercatori/selezioni-ricercatori/ricercatore-tipo-pnrr-sc-01/b1-ssd-inf/01-codice-5113

Please, note that the deadline for submitting applications is very 
strict: October 26, 2022.

For further information, please contact Giorgio Valentini, e-mail: 
valentini at di.unimi.it

With best regards,

Giorgio Valentini

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Giorgio Valentini
Dip. Informatica - Universita' degli Studi di Milano
Phone: +39 (02) 503.16225
e-mail:valentini at di.unimi.it
http://homes.di.unimi.it/valentini
Anacleto Lab - Comp. Biology and Bioinformatics
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