Biography
Riccardo Bellazzi is Full Professor of Bioengineering and Biomedical Informatics at the University of Pavia. He leads the Laboratory of biomedical informatics at the hospital “Salvatore Maugeri” in Pavia. The scientific interests of Prof. Bellazzi are highly interdisciplinary and are aimed at applications of informatics to medicine and life sciences, comprising data mining, temporal data analysis, decision support, clinical research informatics. Prof. Bellazzi has a wide and internationally recognized research activity. In 2000 he founded the working group on "Intelligent Data Analysis and Data Mining" of the International Association of Medical Informatics (IMIA). In 2009 he became a Fellow of the American College of Medical Informatics for his international achievement. He was Vice-President of IMIA in the period 2011-2014. In 2019 he became founding fellow of the International Academy of Health Sciences Informatics. (IAHSI). He is a member of the editorial board of the journals "Methods of Information in Medicine", "Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association", "International Journal of Biomedical Informatics