Jonas Richiardi

Jonas Richiardi is a Principal Investigator and Senior Lecturer at the Department of Radiology, Lausanne University Hospital, Switzerland, and heads the Translational Machine Learning Laboratory there. Previously, he was the Clinical Research Lead at Siemens Healthcare's Advanced Clinical Imaging Technology. Prior to this he was a Marie Curie fellow at Stanford University (Neurology) and the University of Geneva (Fundamental Neurosciences), and post-doctoral researcher in the Medical Image Processing Lab, a joint position between the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Institute of Bioengineering, and the University of Geneva's Department of Radiology and Medical Informatics. He obtained his Ph.D. in signal processing and pattern recognition in 2007 at EPFL in the Signal Processing Institute (Laboratory of de Dalle Molle Institute for Perceptual Artificial Intelligence - LIDIAP), and his M.Phil. in speech and language processing and modelling from the university of Cambridge (Computer Science and Engineering Departments).

His research interests include modelling and inference for complex multimodal biological data, in particular magnetic resonance imaging data and its combination with genetic, transcriptomic, metabolomic, and proteomic data. He focuses on graph-based machine learning approaches, where all data is first represented as a graph, and machine learning approaches are applied to form prediction with graphs. Applications are early diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment response prediction for individual subjects, for diseases ranging from Alzheimer's disease to stroke, multiple sclerosis, heart failure, and cancer. An ongoing effort is to develop these techniques so that they can be applied to messy, hospital-scale data.