My academic life
My name is Giovanni Bocchi. I am currently a post-doc researcher in Statistics at the Department of Environmental Science and Policy of the University of Milan.
I first obtained my BSc and MSc degrees in Mathematics at the University of Milan. Then, after a six-month scholarship, I started a PhD in Mathematics under the joint supervision of Prof. Alessandra Micheletti and Prof. Patrizio Frosini. During my PhD I studied the applications of Group Equivariant Non-Expansive Operators (GENEOs) to the construction of ML and AI models, with a focus on model explainability and trustworthiness. The most interesting application took place during a fruitful collaboration, coordinated by Dr. Carmine Talarico, with the Italian pharmaceutical company Dompé Farmaceutici S.p.A. GENEOnet, i.e. the explainable AI model for the detection of protein pockets that we have developed, can be tested on the webservice https://geneonet.exscalate.eu.
My current research interests include:
- Applications of (x)AI to computational chemistry
- Stochastic models for spatial biological data
- Functional statistics applied to environmental data
About me
When I am not doing research, I like to drink tea 🍵 (one of my favourites is Lapsang Souchong), to play board games 🎲 with friends and to take bad photos with digital and film cameras 📷.