Riccardo Zecchina
Riccardo Zecchina
Cavity approach to sphere packing in Hamming space , A. Ramezanpour, RZ, Phys. Rev. E 85, 021106 (2012)
Stochastic Matching Problem , F. Altarelli, A. Braunstein, A. Ramezanpour, RZ , PRL 106, 190601 (2011)
Direct-coupling analysis of residue coevolution captures native contacts across many protein families F. Morcos et al. , PNAS 108, E1293 (2011)
Finding undetected protein associations in cell signaling by belief propagation M. Bailly-Bechet, C. Borgs, J. Chayes, A. Dagkessamanskaia , J-M. Francois, RZ , PNAS 108, 882 (2011)
Belief propagation for weighted b-matchings on arbitrary graphs and its relation to linear programs with integer solutions , M. Bayati, C. Borgs, J. Chayes, RZ, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics 25, 989 (2011)
Protein 3D Structure Computed from Evolutionary Sequence Variation, D.S. Marks et al. PLoS ONE 6, e28766 (2011)
Efficient data compression from statistical physics of codes over finite fields , A. Braunstein, F. Kahyan, RZ, Phys. Rev. E 84, 051111 (2011)
Stochastic optimization by message passing F. Altarelli, A. Braunstein, A. Ramezanpour, RZ , JSTAT P11009 (2011)
Clustering with shallow trees M. Bailly-Bechet, S. Bradde, A. Braunstein, A. Flaxman, L. Foini, RZ, JSTAT P12010 (2010)
Statistical physics approach to graphical games: local and global interactions , A. Ramezanpour, J. Realpe-Gomez, RZ, European Physical Journal B 81, 327 (2011)
Inference and learning in sparse systems with multiple states A. Braunstein, A. Ramezanpour, RZ, P. Zhang, Phys. Rev. E 83, 056114 (2011)
Aligning graphs and finding substructures by a cavity approach , S. Bradde, A. Braunstein, H. Mahmoudi, F. Tria, M. Weigt, RZ, EPL 89, 37009 (2010)
Some recent papers:
Professor, Theoretical Physics
Department of Applied Science and Technology
Politecnico di Torino
Contact
Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino (Italy)
tel: +39 011 090 7323
fax: +39 011 0907399
Our research group in Turin: "Inference and Optimization" group at Polito and HuGeF
Fabrizio Altarelli
Carlo Baldassi
Carla Bosia
Alfredo Braunstein
Andrea Pagnani
Alessandro Pelizzola
Abolfazl Ramezanpour
Marco Zamparo
PhD: Indaco Biazzo, Alessandro Ingrosso
Some other interesting people in statistical physics, computational biology and computer science.
E. Aurell , W. Bialek, G. Biroli, JP Bouchaud, M. Chertkov , L. Cugliandolo, S. Cocco, A. De Martino, A. Flaxman, J. Kurchan, A. Hartmann, T. Hwa, Bert Kappen, F. Krzakala, S. Leibler, Claire Mathieu, , Stephan Mertens, Remi Monasson, Andrea Montanari , Chris Moore, Amin Coja Oghlan, , Federico Ricci-Tersenghi, D. Saad , G. Semerjian, S. Torquato, R. Urbanke, Massimo Vergassola, Tandy Warnow, ... and many many others (sorry)
Labs:
Microsoft Research New England (C. Borgs, J. Chayes)
Bio-Engineering Dept. MIT (E. Fraenkel)
ICTP (M. Masili)
SISSA (D. Zoccolan, C. Micheletti)
Links to collaborators and colleagues
Responsibilities:
- Coordinator of the International Master's Course on Physics of Complex Systems
- Head of Unit at the Human Genetics Foundation
-Fellow of the research foundation Collegio Carlo Alberto
-1997-2007 I was at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics ; currently I’m staff associate
Current Grants : ERC Advanced investigator grant OPTINF (2010-15); Marie Curie training network: NETADIS (2012-15); STAMINA (2011-14)
Preprints
The Spread Optimization problem, F. Altarelli, A. Braunstein, L. Dall’Asta RZ, 2012
Prediction of interaction partners from MSA, research collaboration, 2012
Simultaneous reconstruction of multiple signaling pathways ... N. Tuncbag, A. Braunstein, A. Pagnani, S.-S.C. Huang, J. J. Chayes, C. Borgs, RZ, E. Fraenkel, 2012
From luminance to semantics: how images of natural objects are represented by neuronal populations in monkey inferotemporal cortex, M. Pagan, A. Alemi-Neissi, C. Baldassi, RZ, JJ DiCarlo, D. Zoccolan 2012
Publications
Most recent (last year) papers on the ArXiv
Papers that can be downloaded from the arXiv since 1994
Free software: Codes for download on our message-passing algorithms for optimization and inference
PhD position : statistical physics and computational biology, 3 year position available , check also here.
Post-Doc positions: we have few positions available connected to two research groups, at the Human Genetics Foundation and at the Politecnico Unversity. In case you are interested please get in touch with alberto dot anfossi at polito dot it
Current research activity:
statistical physics of inverse problems (dynamics and statics), computational biology, computational neuroscience, stochastic optimization and statistical inference, disordered systems.
Interesting links on science and society:
about sustainable development, David MacKay book and articles.
more soon...