Gio Piantoni

Data Scientist with over a decade of experience in designing and implementing digital solutions to enhance healthcare efficiency and patient outcomes.

Proficient in stakeholder communication, project management, and data analysis, I excel in multidisciplinary teams to develop innovative strategies and tools. My expertise lies in end-to-end product development, clinical validation, and regulatory compliance.

I am particularly skilled in leveraging digital tools, with a strong affinity for Python, SQL, and LLM / GPT, and I am quick to learn and adapt to new technologies.

Passionate about leveraging data to drive tactical and strategic decisions, I aim to improve healthcare delivery through cutting-edge technology and a deep understanding of the healthcare landscape.

My Work Experience

My Education

My Skills

Product Development & Regulations

• Medical Device Design
  • Translating user needs into design inputs
  • Preparing traceability matrix for verification & validation (ISO 13485)
• Risk Management Preparation of severity / likelihood matrix and mitigation strategies (ISO 14971)
• Agile Scrum
  • Sprint planning
  • Morning stand-ups
  • Sprint retrospective
  • Epics
• Good Clinical Practices
  • BROK exam valid unil 10 Feb 2025
  • Responsible for obtaining informed consent from patients and maintaining research data (ISO 14155)
• Compliance & Privacy Organization, de-identifaction, and anonymization of research based (for compliance with GDPR and HIPAA)

Analytical Skills

• Data Analysis Workflow
  • Planning
  • Extraction
  • Standardization
  • Visualization
  • Outlier detection
  • Dimensionality reduction (PCA, ICA, feature selection)
• Statistics
  • Linear and non-linear mixed-effects analysis
  • Longitudinal analysis
  • Survival Analysis
• Machine Learning supervised
  • OLS
  • Logistic regression
  • Support vector machine
  • Random forests
  • AdaBoost
• Machine Learning unsupervised
  • Cluster analysis
  • Gaussian mixture
  • t-SNE
  • Neural Networks
• Data Structuring
  • Design of relational databases of clinical and research data
  • Distributed computing

Coding Skills

• Python
  • numpy, scipy, pandas
  • scikit-learn
  • TensorFlow / keras
  • PyQt6, plotly
  • requests
  • ipython, jupyter
  • wonambi (analysis of electrophysiological data, primary developer)
• R
  • lme4, nlme
  • ggplot2
• Databases
  • MySQL, MariaDB
  • SQLite
  • Amazon S3
  • Azure SQL Data Warehouse
• Continuous Integration
  • Travis CI, CircleCI
  • Docker
• Distributed Computing
  • Server administrator of Amazon EC2
  • Azure Data Factory
• Collaborative Tools
  • Slack, MS Teams
  • git
  • Jira, Trello, Asana
  • Confluence, QMS documentation

Interpersonal Skills

• Mentorship & Leadership
  • Supervision of ˜10 students
  • Representative of Ph.D. students
  • Chair of several task forces
• Collaborations Establishment and maintenance of collaboration with several institutes within the Netherlands, within Europe and in the US
• Stakeholder Management Integrate research requirements into clinical practice of doctors, clinical coordinators, and nurses
• Work under Stress Coordination of data acquisition in the operating room during open brain surgery

Communication Skills

• Writing
  • 20 academic articles in peer-review international journals
  • Standard Operating Procedures
  • API documentation
  • Tutorials
• Grants & Awards ˜€60.000 received in personal grants, travel grants, and scholarships
• Oral Presentations
  • 15 oral presentations at international conferences
  • Guest lecturer on neuroscience to B.Sc. and M.Sc. students at Radboud University

About Me

• contact@gpiantoni.com
• https://github.com/gpiantoni
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/gpiantoni/
• https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=piantoni+g[au]
• https://twitter.com/gpiantoni