Alessio Zanga
CTO & Co-Founder at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Milan, Lombardy, Italy
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Top SchoolAlessio Zanga is a CTO and co-founder with 11 years of experience specializing in causal AI, translating academic advances in causal networks into production-ready solutions for healthcare and enterprise. He holds a PhD in Computer Science and combines deep research credentials with hands-on product leadership, currently steering Whysen’s technical vision while teaching causal networks at Università degli Studi di Milano‑Bicocca. His work spans designing structure-learning algorithms for clinical settings, handling missing data and expert priors, and deploying models that support decision-making under uncertainty. Alessio has applied causal methods across domains—from predicting brain-damage progression and cancer-related cardiovascular risk to microbiome-mediated therapy effects—demonstrating an uncommon blend of domain-driven research and engineering. He contributes to national and international collaborations and serves on program committees, reflecting both scholarly recognition and practical impact. Based in Milan, he quietly bridges theory and practice by shipping research-grade tooling that clinicians and product teams can actually use.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of LiègeDiploma di Liceo Scientifico con opz. Scienze Applicate, Diploma di Liceo Scientifico con opz. Scienze Applicate at Liceo statale Galileo Galilei di CaravaggioDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca
Italian, English
Github Skills (84)
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
AlessioZanga/causal-hub
Nov 2022 - Jun 2024
A package for Causal Data Science
Contributions:13 reviews, 127 PRs, 348 pushes in 1 year 7 months
fairness-mlpythonsciencedata-sciencecausal
CavenaghiEmanuele/REILLY
May 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:220 commits, 39 pushes in 6 months
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