Francisco M. Ortuño Guzman

I received my M.Sc. degree in Telecommunication Engineering and my master in Computers and Networks Engineering, both from the University of Granada (Spain) in 2008 and 2011, respectively. I did my PhD at the Department of Computer Architecture and Computer Technology, University of Granada about intelligent systems to optimize protein multiple sequence alignments (MSAs). I also served as Senior Bioinformatician at the Center for Data Intensive Science (CDIS) in the University of Chicago during 2.5 years, being involved in projects like Genomics Data Commons (GDC), Blood Profiling Atlas Consortium (BloodPAC) or Brain Commons. Currently, I am researcher at the Clinical Bioinformatics Area of the Fundacion Progreso y Salud in the public health system of Andalusia (Spain). My current research interests include artificial intelligence, data mining, evolutionary computation and machine learning approaches applied to Bioinformatics and Computational Biology problems. These solutions embraces from optimization of primary and terciary protein structures to standard next-generation sequencing (NGS) pipelines for genomics data analysis, specially oriented to cancer and clinical purposes.