Dr Davide Cirillo is the head of the Machine Learning for Biomedical Research Unit at the Life Sciences Department of the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC). He received an MSc of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology from University of Roma ‘La Sapienza’, Italy, and a PhD in Biomedicine from Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) and the Center for Genomic Regulation (CRG) in Barcelona, Spain.

His research focuses on computational methods for precision medicine with a special emphasis on machine learning, network science and ethics of artificial intelligence. He is a member of the ELIXIR Machine Learning Focus Group, co-leads the research subgroup of BSC Bioinfo4Women initiative, and is the co-founder of the BSC spinoff OneCareAI.