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Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics

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Hopfield and Hinton win the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024
Hopfield and Hinton win the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024

John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton won the Nobel Prize in Physics 2024 ‘for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks’. We asked Professors Achille Giacometti and Guido Caldarelli (Theoretical Physics), and Marcello Pelillo (Informatics) for their comments.

Falling Walls Lab Italy Awards a Ca' Foscari Student for 2nd Year in a Row
Falling Walls Lab Italy Awards a Ca' Foscari Student for 2nd Year in a Row

With his pitch "Breaking the Wall of Black Boxes in Medicine," Leone Bacciu, a Bachelor’s degree student in Computer Science, presented the pyFUME project, a tool designed to aid medical decision-making through interpretable artificial intelligence communicating in human language.

Thaiti: the Italian software optimising cardiac MRI
Thaiti: the Italian software optimising cardiac MRI

THAITI uses artificial intelligence to make the diagnostic practice more accurate and efficient. The software has been developed and patented by an interdisciplinary team consisting of Daniela Besozzi and Daniele M. Papetti from the University of Milano-Bicocca, Marco Salvatore Nobile from Ca' Foscari University of Venice, and Camilla Torlasco from Auxologico Italian Institute (IRCCS) in Milan.

Ca' Foscari to lead European research in the name of 'planetary health'
Ca' Foscari to lead European research in the name of 'planetary health'

The Planet4Health project will engage a hundred researchers to find, analyse and share data that will help us understand the effects of climate change on human and animal health and design effective mitigation and adaptation policies.

Welcome message from Salvatore Orlando, Director of the Department

“Our department has won over 50 European competitions in the last 4 years. We carry out cross-cutting research that intersects issues related to the ecological transition and digital transformation”

Salvatore Orlando,
Director of the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics

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Our research

Research areas

The activities carried out at the Department involve various fields of research, ranging from environmental sciences to informatics and statistics, but also to technologies for the conservation of cultural heritage.

Our research topics intersect the ones related to the ecological transition and to digital transformation, which today are considered essential to the creation of a new, sustainable development of our society and our economy.

Our research — which is often interdisciplinary in its approach — is developed also thanks to collaborations with public institutions and local businesses, and it is financed by public competitions on a regional, national and European level.

Research projects
EXPEDITE - EXPloring opportunitiEs for developing a risk and resilience climate service baseD on blg daTa and machinE learning

Researcher: Andrea Critto, supervisor of MSCA Fellow Marcello Sano
Length: 01/04/2024 - 31/03/2026

Publications

The research conducted at the Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics involves various areas, including biology, ecology, environmental chemistry, analytical chemistry, chemistry for cultural heritage, environmental engineering, informatics, Earth sciences, and statistics. The bibliographic information regarding the Department’s publications can be accessed through ARCA, Ca’ Foscari’s open-access archive.