About

Professor Pietro Liò is a Full Professor of Computational Biology in the Department of Computer Science and Technology at the University of Cambridge, where he is a member of the Artificial Intelligence Group and the Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine. He holds two PhDs: one in Complex Systems and Non-Linear Dynamics from the School of Informatics, Department of Engineering, University of Florence, and another in Theoretical Genetics from the University of Pavia, Italy.

He is a Fellow and Council Member of Clare Hall, a member of ELLIS (the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems), and a member of the Academia Europaea. He is also listed among the Top Italian Scientists by VIA-Academy.

Research

Pietro’s research focuses on:

• Developing AI and computational biology models to understand disease complexity and advance precision medicine
• Designing graph neural network models to integrate multi-scale, multi-omics, and multi-physics data
• Combining deep learning with mechanistic approaches to enhance explainability and interpretability in medicine
• Exploring communication and emergent behaviors across biological systems, from cells to tissues
• Creating AI-based medical digital twins to promote self-awareness and personal decision support systems to enhance social awareness