Antonio Piccolboni is a computer and data scientist. He holds a PhD in computer science from the University of Milan. His three-decade career has spanned computer theory, computational biology, data analysis and software engineering. His main claims to fame are the NP-completeness proof for the ground state problem in a combinatorial model of protein folding (which he would have never pulled off without the help of his co-authors)¹ and an R package for large scale data analysis, rmr2, which has been downloaded more than 2 million times, making some practitioners very happy.