Founder

Claudio Alberti
Claudio is CTO and Co-founder of GenomSys, a Swiss company specialized in the compression and transport of genomic sequence data. He is a major contributor to MPEG-G, the new ISO / IEC standard for representing genome sequencing data and is currently editor of the second part of the project: “Coding of Genomic Information”.
After earning a master’s degree in engineering from the Politecnico di Milano (Italy) and a doctorate from the EPFL (Lausanne, Switzerland), he designed and developed solutions for digital media processing and information security companies.
He currently collaborates on developing compliant genome processing applications to MPEG-G with genomic competence centers such as the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, the James Hutton Institute (UK) and the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign).