Sector expertise

Cross-cutting Technologies

IFAB’s cross-cutting expertise forms the technical and scientific core that underpins every area of application. From machine learning to deep learning, from generative AI to Edge AI, IFAB brings a comprehensive portfolio of advanced capabilities to design, develop and deploy data-driven and AI solutions tailored to each partner’s needs. These competences complement sector-specific expertise and amplify its impact.

Expertise offered by IFAB

Generation of longitudinal synthetic data and related cofactors;
Processing and organisation of sensitive multimodal data in the healthcare sector, in compliance with the GDPR and the AI Act;
Creation of an object-based data lake using CINECA cloud resources, ISO 27001 certified and designed with specific attention to sensitive data.

Possible areas of implementation

Integration of predictive model outputs with a RAG system to query the state of the art;
Creation of a support system for preventive diagnostics;
Development of an object-based data lake with specific attention to sensitive data;
Generation of synthetic health data.

Solutions adopted

Machine Learning & Generative AI

From classical machine learning to the most advanced generative models, IFAB develops AI solutions built for real-world contexts and high-impact outcomes. LLM fine-tuning and deployment on HPC infrastructures, RAG architectures for specialist domains, prompt engineering and agentic applications: a complete technical portfolio for those ready to bring AI into production.

Edge AI

Artificial intelligence doesn’t only live in the cloud. IFAB designs AI models optimised for edge devices — compressing complex algorithms and validating them in real operational environments — to enable distributed, low-latency predictive applications with limited computational resources, right where the data is generated.

Synthetic data

When real data is scarce, sensitive or hard to obtain, synthetic data offers a concrete solution. IFAB develops advanced methodologies for generating synthetic data — longitudinal and multimodal — preserving the statistical properties of original datasets while ensuring full compliance with GDPR and the AI Act.

High Performance Computing (HPC)

Computing power is the enabling infrastructure of modern AI. IFAB integrates advanced HPC expertise — from deployment on supercomputers such as CINECA’s Leonardo to AI algorithm parallelisation and hybrid HPC-cloud architectures — to support intensive workloads and accelerate the development of large-scale solutions.

Emerging technologies: Federated Learning & Quantum Computing

IFAB invests in the technologies that will define the next wave of innovation. Federated Learning for secure and distributed data sharing, Generative AI for new models of analysis and content creation, Quantum Computing as a concrete lever for business research and development: cross-cutting technologies, real-world applications.

Every sector has its own challenges. We have the expertise to address them.

Are you a company, a startup, or an SME looking to develop advanced AI and Big Data innovation projects? Tell us about your needs and let’s get in touch.

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