CV
Please find a formal PDF version of my CV here (last update on April, 2018).
Education
- Ph.D in Computer Science, approced with honours, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, 04/2017
- M.S. in Computer Science cum laude, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, 07/2013
- B.S. in Computer Science cum laude, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy, 09/2011
Visiting
- 11/2015–12/2016, Brown University, Visiting Graduate student
- 07/2015, CWI with with Prof. Gunnar Klau and Prof. Nadia Pisanti, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- 03/2013–-07/2013 Laboratory of Genominformatik, Research Fellow for master thesis with Prof. Jens Stoye, University of Bielefeld, Germany.
Publications
Preprints
S. Zaccaria and B.J. Raphael. Accurate quantification of copy-number aberrations and whole-genome duplications in multi-sample tumor sequencing data. bioRxiv, 2018 (https://doi.org/10.1101/496174)
Peer-reviewed journal
E. Willing, S. Zaccaria et al. On the inversion-indel distance. BMC bioinformatics. Vol. 14. No. 15. BioMed Central, 2013
Y. Pirola*, S. Zaccaria*, et al. HAPCOL: accurate and memory-efficient haplotype assembly from long reads. Bioinformatics 32.11 (2015): 1610-1617.
P. Bonizzoni, R. Dondi, GW. Klau, Y. Pirola, N. Pisanti, and S. Zaccaria. On the Minimum Error Correction Problem for Haplotype Assembly in Diploid and Polyploid Genomes. Journal of Computational Biology 23, no. 9 (2016): 718-736.
M. El-Kebir, B.J. Raphael, R. Shamir, R. Sharan, S. Zaccaria, M. Zehavi, and R. Zeira. Complexity and algorithms for copy-number evolution problems. Algorithms for Molecular Biology, 12(1), 13. 2017
S. Zaccaria et al. Phylogenetic copy-number factorization of multiple tumor samples. Journal of Computational Biology 25.7 (2018): 689-708.
S. Beretta, M.D. Patterson, S. Zaccaria, G. Della Vedova, and P. Bonizzoni. HapCHAT: Adaptive haplotype assembly for efficiently leveraging high coverage in long reads. BMC Bioinformatics 19, no. 1 (2018): 252.
Peer-reviewed conference
P. Bonizzoni, R. Dondi, G.W. Klau, Y. Pirola, N. Pisanti, and S. Zaccaria. On the fixed parameter tractability and approximability of the minimum error correction problem. In Annual Symposium on Combinatorial Pattern Matching (CPM 2015), pp. 100-113. Springer, 2015.
M. El-Kebir, B.J. Raphael, R. Shamir, R. Sharan, S. Zaccaria, M. Zehavi, and R. Zeira. Copy-number evolution problems: complexity and algorithms. In International Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics (WABI 2016), pp. 137-149. Springer, 2016.
S. Zaccaria et al. The copy-number tree mixture deconvolution problem and applications to multi-sample bulk sequencing tumor data. International Conference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology (RECOMB 2017). Springer, 2017.
Talks
November 28, 2013
Talk at PRIN10-11 meeting, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
June 03, 2015
Talk at BITS 2015, Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Bioinformatics Italian Society, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
June 29, 2015
Talk at CPM 2015, 26th Annual Symposium on Combinatorial PatternMatching, Ischia Island, Italy
August 21, 2016
Talk at WABI 2016, Inter-national Workshop on Algorithms in Bioinformatics, Aarhus, Denmark
May 03, 2017
Talk at RECOMB 2017, The 21st Annual InternationalConference on Research in Computational Molecular Biology, University of Hong Kong
April 19, 2018
Talk at RECOMB CCB 2018, The 22st Annual International Conference onResearch in Computational Molecular Biology, Paris, France
Posters
June 03, 2015
Poster at BITS 2015, Twelfth Annual Meeting of the BioinformaticsItalian Society, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
July 10, 2015
Poster at HiTSeq (ISMB) 2015, Conference on High ThroughputSequencing, Algorithms and Applications, Dublin, Ireland
February 07, 2018
Poster at Cancer Genomics and Mathematical DataAnalysis Symposium, Columbia University, NYC
April 21, 2018
Poster at RECOMB 2018, Paris, France
September 27, 2018
Poster at TCGA Legacy meeting, Washington DC, USA
Teaching