About Me
- Degree in Mathematics, Università degli Studi di Milano, 1990
- Doctorate in Mathematics, Università degli Studi di Milano, 1997
- Researcher at CNR-IMATI, November 1996 - February 2005
- Associate Professor in Probability and Mathematical Statistics, Polimi, March 2005 - December 2015
- Full Professor in Statistics at Politecnico di Milano from January 2016
Research
My research interests are mainly focused on Bayesian inference (parametric and nonparametric), with emphasis on modelling and computational aspects. One of the topic I am currently working on is mixture models where location parameters are a priori encouraged to be well separated, also incorporating covariate information in the likelihood and in the assignment to mixture components; this yields a trade-off between repulsiveness of locations in the mixtures and attraction among subjects with similar covariates. From the application point of view, my work concerns statistics for environmental applications (e.g. air pollution and associated adverse birth events), for sociology of public policies and labor market transformations (e.g. gender gap in the access to labour market, mental health of young people and economic insecurity, economic inequalities and boundary detection), health care management (e.g. home care providers, recurrent blood donations), biology (e.g. SNP's data) and medicine (e.g. recurrent events related to hearth failures, survival after an infarction).
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Teaching / Theses
All materials for the course Bayesian Statistics I teach can be find on the WeBeep repository (students/people with Polimi credentials only). See also the list of my reaserch interests here above.
Contact me if you are interested in theses in Bayesian Statistics or check "Bacheca tesi" from Servizi online.