Alex Di Genova
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Alex Di Genova

Professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology

Computational genomics researcher working across cancer genomics, long-read sequencing, genome assembly, and scalable bioinformatics.

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Research areas

Current focus

Cancer genomics and structural variation
Genome assembly and long-read sequencing
Algorithm design for large genomic datasets
Reproducible HPC workflows and analysis infrastructure
Biography

About Alex Di Genova

Alex Di Genova is a professor of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology at Universidad de O’Higgins in Chile. His work spans cancer genomics, genome assembly, long-read sequencing, and algorithm development for large-scale genomic analysis.

He leads Di Genoma Lab with a focus on building the full research stack: sequencing strategy, scalable computation, software engineering, and biological interpretation. His publications include work in Nature Biotechnology, GigaScience, and Nature Genetics, including contributions such as Wengan, Fast-SG, and multi-omic cancer studies in international consortia.

Alongside his research program, he is committed to training computational biologists and bioinformaticians who can move comfortably between algorithms, infrastructure, and translational genomics.