Toni Giorgino

alt text I am a research assistant at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona) with GRIB-IMIM. My research interest is the application of accelerator architectures (GPUs) and distributed computing architectures (BOINC and GPUGRID.net) to the modeling of unstructured protein-protein and protein-drug interactions through all-atom simulations (see e.g. videos and pictures from simulations on the hERG channel).

My research background includes statistical learning, software and device engineering, and high-performance architectures for biomedical research. I was formerly with the Laboratory for Biomedical Informatics of the University of Pavia, where I conducted research on telemedicine and adaptive human-computer interaction for patient care, including wearable sensors (e.g. MyHeart) and speech interfaces (e.g. AdaRTE, Homey). I have a degree in Physics (University of Pisa, 2001) and a PhD in Bioengineering and Bioinformatics (University of Pavia, 2005).

See the full publications list and various software tools I've authored at my main webpage.

Publications (selected only)

  • Giorgino T., and De Fabritiis G., A high-throughput steered molecular dynamics study on the free energy profile of ion permeation through gramicidin A, Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation, in press, 2011.
  • J Cooper,F Cervenansky, G De Fabritiis, J Fenner, D Friboulet, T Giorgino, S Manos, Y Martelli, J Villa-Freixa, S Zasada, S Lloyd, K Mccormack and P V Coveney, The Virtual Physiological Human Toolkit, Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A 368(1925) 3925-3936
  • Giorgino T., Harvey M.J. and De Fabritiis G., Distributed computing as a virtual supercomputer: Tools to run and manage large-scale BOINC simulations, Computer Physics Communications, Volume 181, Issue 8, August 2010, Pages 1402-1409. doi:10.1016/j.cpc.2010.04.007
  • Buch I, Harvey MJ, Giorgino T, Anderson DP, De Fabritiis G. High-throughput all-atom molecular dynamics simulations using distributed computing. J Chem Inf Model. 2010 Mar 22;50(3):397-403. doi:10.1021/ci900455r.

  • Giorgino T, Tormene P, Maggioni G, Pistarini C, Quaglini S. Wireless Support to Post-Stroke Rehabilitation: MyHeart's Neurological Rehabilitation Concept. IEEE Transactions on Information Technology in Biomedicine. 2009 Nov;13(6):1012-1018. doi:10.1109/TITB.2009.2028020.

  • Giorgino T. Computing and Visualizing Dynamic Time Warping Alignments in R: the dtw Package. Journal of Statistical Software. 2009 August;31(7). www.jstatsoft.org/v31/i07
  • Tormene P*, Giorgino T*, Quaglini S, Stefanelli M. Matching incomplete time series with dynamic time warping: an algorithm and an application to post-stroke rehabilitation. Artificial Intelligence in Medicine. 2009 Jan;45(1):11–34. (* shared first authors) doi:10.1016/j.artmed.2008.11.007.
  • Giorgino T, Tormene P, Maggioni G, Capozzi D, Quaglini S, Pistarini C. Assessment of sensorized garments as a flexible support to self-administered post-stroke physical rehabilitation. Eur J Phys Rehabil Med. 2009 Mar;45(1):75–84. PMID: 19293756
  • Rojas-Barahona LM, Giorgino T. Adaptable dialog architecture and runtime engine (AdaRTE): a framework for rapid prototyping of health dialog systems. International Journal of Medical Informatics. 2009 Apr;78 Suppl 1:S56–S68. doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2008.07.017.
  • Giorgino T, Tormene P, Lorussi F, Rossi DD, Quaglini S. Sensor evaluation for wearable strain gauges in neurological rehabilitation. IEEE Trans Neural Syst Rehabil Eng. 2009 Aug;17(4):409–415. doi:10.1109/TNSRE.2009.2019584.
  • Quaglini S, Giorgino T, Rojas-Barahona LM, Caffi E, De Vito M, Persico A, et al. An automated voice response system for anticoagulant therapy management. Stud Health Technol Inform. (MEDINFO) 2009;150:453-457. doi:10.3233/978-1-60750-044-5-453

  • Giorgino T, Tormene P, Cattani B, Pistarini C, Quaglini S. Remote Support for Stroke Rehabilitation: MyHeart's Neurological Rehabilitation Concept. In: MEDINFO 2007 - Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics. pp. 1063-1067. Brisbane (Australia). ISBN 978-1-58603-774-1. PMID: 17911685.

  • Rojas-Barahona LM, Giorgino T. AdaRTE: Adaptable Dialogue Architecture and Runtime Engine. A New Architecture for Health-Care Dialogue Systems. In: MEDINFO 2007 - Proceedings of the 12th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics, pp. 1063-1067. Brisbane (Australia). ISBN 978-1-58603-774-1. PMID: 17911878.
  • Giorgino T, Tormene P, Quaglini S. A Multivariate Time-Warping Based Classifier for Gesture Recognition with Wearable Strain Sensors. In: Proc. 29th Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society EMBS 2007. p. 4903–4906. Los Alamitos, CA, USA. doi:10.1109/IEMBS.2007.4353439.
  • Giorgino T, Quaglini S, Lorussi F, De Rossi D. Experiments in the Detection of Upper Limb Posture through Kinestetic Strain Sensor. In: Wearable and Implantable Body Sensor Networks, International Workshop on. Boston, MA (USA): IEEE Computer Society; 2006. p. 9-12. doi:10.1109/BSN.2006.25.

  • Lorussi F, Tognetti A, Giorgino T, Quaglini S. Wearable system for post stroke rehabilitation of the upper-limb. Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy. 2006;60. doi:10.1016/j.biopha.2006.07.030.

  • Giorgino T, Lorussi F, De Rossi D, Quaglini S. Posture Classification via Wearable Strain Sensors for Neurological Rehabilitation. In: Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2006. EMBS ’06. 28th Annual International Conference of the IEEE. p. 6273–6276. Los Alamitos, CA, USA doi:10.1109/IEMBS.2006.260620.
  • Bickmore T, Giorgino T. Health dialog systems for patients and consumers. Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 2006;39(5):556–571 (Methodological review). doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2005.12.004.
  • Bickmore T, Giorgino T, Green N, Picard R. Special issue on dialog systems for health communication (guest editorial). Journal of Biomedical Informatics. 2006;39(5):465–467. doi:10.1016/j.jbi.2006.02.002.
  • Giorgino T, Azzini I, Rognoni C, Quaglini S, Stefanelli M, Gretter R, et al. Automated spoken dialogue system for hypertensive patient home management. International Journal of Medical Informatics. 2005 Mar; 74(2-4):159–167. doi:10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2004.04.026.
  • Bellazzi R, Giorgino T, Azzini I, Larizza C, Quaglini S, Hernando E. New frontiers of telemedicine systems for chronic patients monitoring: Adaptive systems and multi-access services. Measurement + Control. 2004 Giu; 37(5) pp. 146-150. The institute of measurement and control, London, UK.
  • Piazza M, Giorgino T, Azzini I, Stefanelli M, Luo R. Cognitive human factors for telemedicine systems. Medinfo 2004: Proceedings of the 11th World Congress on Health (Medical) Informatics. 2004;11(Pt 2):974-978. PMID: 15360958. .
  • Azzini I, Falavigna D, Giorgino T, Gretter R, Quaglini S, Rognoni C, et al. Automated Spoken Dialog System for Home Care and Data Acquisition from Chronic Patients. In: Medical Informatics Europe MIE 2003. St. Malo, France. p. 146-151. PMID: 14663978.
  • Azzini I, Giorgino T, Quaglini S, Rognoni C, Stefanelli M. Home Monitoring of Hypertensive Patients through Intelligent Dialog System. In: Kohane IS, editor(s). American Medical Informatics Association, AMIA 2002, San Antonio, TX, USA. 2002. PMCID: PMC2244273.
  • Bodin, F.; Boucaud, P.; Cabibbo, N.; et al. APE computers - Past, present and future. Computer Physics Communications, 2002, 147, 402-409. doi:10.1016/S0010-4655(02)00314-4.

  • Bartoloni A, Boucaud P, Cabibbo N, Calvayrac C, Della Morte A, Del Pietri R, et al. Status of APEmille. Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements. 2002; 106-1071043-1045. Doi:10.1016/S0920-5632(01)01922-3.

  • Bodin F, Boucaud P, Cabibbo N, Calvayrac F, Della Morte M, De Pietri R, et al. The apeNEXT project. Nuclear Physics B - Proceedings Supplements. 2002; 106-107173-176. doi:10.1016/S0920-5632(01)01656-5.

Book chapters

  • Giorgino T, Tormene P, Quaglini S. Indumenti sensorizzati per la neuroriabilitazione motoria: analisi del movimento con feedback in tempo reale. In: Bonfiglio A, Cerutti S, De Rossi D, Magenes G, editors. Sistemi indossabili per la salute e la protezione dell’uomo; Patron, Bologna, Settembre 2008. ISBN 978-88-555-2994-5.
  • Azzini I, Giorgino T, Falavigna D, Gretter R. Application of Spoken Dialogue Technology in a Medical Domain. In: Text, Speech and Dialogue. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2448/2002 p. 177-196. Springer Berlin / Heidelberg. ISBN 978-3-540-44129-8. doi:10.1007/3-540-46154-X.

Divulgation

  • Giorgino T. Quan les persones col.laboren amb la ciència [When the public collaborates with science]. Imima't - divulguem la ciència. June 2009; divulgation article translated into Spanish and Catalan.
  • Giorgino T. Technical focus on GPUGRID. Article in the Virtual Physiologial Human Network of Excellence – Newsletter n. 2. June 2009.
  • Giorgino T. Wiki science featured in EMBO reports. Article in the Virtual Physiologial Human Network of Excellence – Newsletter n. 2. June 2009.

  • Giorgino T. Wearable sensors for neurological rehabilitation. Presentation video for the MyHeart project, 2008. Available from: www.labmedinfo.org/projects/myheart (Online)

An older institutional page (2007) was archived here (2007).

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