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Marco Masseroli is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of Politecnico di Milano and co-Coordinator of the Master Degree in Bioinformatics for Computational Genomics joint between Politecnico di Milano and Università degli Studi di Milano. He leads the Data Science for Bioinformatics lab of Politecnico di Milano, and the Computational multi-Omics of Neurological Disorders (MIND) Lab within the Joint Research Platform between Politecnico di Milano and Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Neurologico “Carlo Besta”. He is lecturer of the courses "Bioinformatics and Computational Biology" and "ICT for Health Care" for the Masters of Science in Computer Science and Engineering and in Biomedical Engineering. He is an evaluator of research projects for the European Union and a reviewer for several international scientific journals. His research is on Data Science applied to Medical Informatics, Bioinformatics and Computational Genomics, mainly in oncology and neurology, focused on genomic databanks, controlled vocabularies and bio-ontologies to effectively retrieve, manage, query and share heterogeneous genomic, biomedical and clinical information for their semantic integration with patient clinical and high-throughput genomic data and their comprehensive multimodal analysis with Machine Learning approaches. He is the author of more than 200 peer-reviewed papers on international journals and conference proceedings in the fields of Bioinformatics, Medical Informatics and bioimage processing and analysis.

Rosario Michael Piro studied physics at University of Heidelberg, Germany, and University of Turin, Italy, where he graduated in Physics of Advanced Technologies in 2004, obtained an additional Master in Bioinformatics in 2006 and a PhD in Molecular Medicine (with a focus on bioinformatics) in January 2011. He acquired professional experience at the Section of Turin of the Italian National Institute for Nuclear Physics (INFN) within the international projects Euorpean DataGrid (EDG), Enabling Grid for E-sciencE (EGEE) I-III and Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute Europe (OMII-Europe). After his PhD, he worked as a postdoc at the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ) at Heidelberg and as an Assistant Professor (Juniorprofessor) at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Since February 2020 he is Associate Professor of bioinformatics at the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering of Politecnico di Milano.