Vincenzo Bonnici is an Associate Professor in Informatics at the Department of Mathematical, Physical and Computer Science of the University of Parma (Italy). He received a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Catania (Italy) in 2008 and 2011, respectively. He received a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Verona in 2015. From 2013 to 2014, he was a Visiting Researcher Scholar at the Institute for Genomics and Bioinformatics (IGB), University of California, Irvine, and in 2017, he did an internship at the Fondazione per la Ricerca e la Cura dei Linfomi del Ticino, Istituto Oncologico della Svizzera Italiana, Bellinzona. From 2015 to 2019, he was a research associate, and from 2019 to 2021, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Verona .
Bioinformatics, Artificial intelligence, computational biology, algorithms and data structures, graph theory, and parallel computing are Vincenzo Bonnici's main research interests. He has worked on the search of substructures within biomedical graphs, since his master’s degree period. He has extended such topic to the creation, integration, and creation of biological networks. His research topics also include computational genomics by developing innovative methods based on Information Theory for the analysis of genomic sequences. Phylogenomic and pangenomics are also among his research interests in which he studies computational methods for computing homology among biological sequences. He has also worked in the System Biology field by studying the physical and functional relations of non-coding RNAs. Parallel computing is a cross-cutting theme for his research studies, and he has developed parallel solutions on top of different architectures, from SMPs to GP-GPUs. As a result of his research activities, he has published several papers in relevant scientific journals (Bioinformatics, BMC, IEEE/ACM TCBB, Nature – Scientific Reports), he won an international contest on graph matching within the 2014 ICPR conference and a best poster award at the Jacob T. Schwartz International School for Scientific Research, and he has been speaker at 12 international scientific conferences.
