Fabio Rinaldi

Timeline

1. 2005–2020

   Senior researcher at Zurich

   From 2005 to 2020, he serves as a lecturer and senior researcher at the University of Zurich, where he establishes and leads a biomedical text mining group.

2. 2008

   Mining biomedical relations

   In 2008, he coauthors a paper that uses dependency parsing and syntax-based filters to detect relationships among genes, proteins and diseases in biomedical literature.

3. 2010

   Visiting Tokyo's NLP lab

   In 2010, he spends nearly a year as a visiting researcher at Professor Jun'ichi Tsujii's former lab at Tokyo University.

4. By 2014

   OntoGene and ODIN at UZH

   By 2014, he holds an MSc in computer science from the University of Udine and a PhD in computational linguistics from the University of Zurich. He leads the OntoGene group at UZH and serves as principal investigator of SASEBio, which applies text mining to biomedical database curation, and presents ODIN, an interactive tool for curators.

5. 2016–2019

   Visiting the RegulonDB group

   From 2016 to 2019, he holds an additional appointment as a visiting research professor with the RegulonDB group at the National University of Mexico, as part of an NIH-sponsored project.

6. 2024

   Benchmarking LLM text detectors

   In 2024, he coauthors BUST, a benchmark that evaluates detectors of text generated by instruction-tuned language models.

7. As of October 2026

   Leading clinical NLP research

   He is a senior researcher in NLP and information retrieval at IDSIA USI-SUPSI and leads SIB's BioMeXT group in biomedical information extraction. The group works on research literature, clinical records and social media; he is principal investigator of M2P2, which runs from March 2025 to February 2028 and develops privacy-preserving multilingual NLP for clinical records.