Welcome to my web page!
I am an Assistant Professor (RtdA) of Statistical Science at the Department of Economics, Social Studies, Applied Mathematics and Statistics (ESOMAS) of the University of Torino.
I am also a Collegio Carlo Alberto Affiliate, and a member of “de Castro” Statistics Initiative at Collegio Carlo Alberto, a Research Affiliate at the Bayes Lab at the Bocconi Institute for Data Science and Analytics (BIDSA) and a member of the Complex Data Modeling Research Network led by MiDas.
Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher in Statistics at the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin, under the mentorship of Peter Müller and Abhra Sarkar. I obtained my Ph.D. in Statistics at Bocconi University, under the supervision of Antonio Lijoi and Igor Prünster.
Research interests
I am interested in Bayesian modeling of complex data structures. More specifically, I have been working on:
Bayesian nonparametrics: discrete random probabilities, mixture models, random partitions, and probabilistic clustering.
Bayesian modeling for binary and categorical data: dynamic regression for binary time series, hidden Markov models, and Bayesian categorical regression.
Probabilistic dimensionality reduction: Bayesian multidimensional scaling and individual difference scaling analysis.
Computational statistics: Monte Carlo Markov chain, Monte Carlo, sequential Monte Carlo methods, variational inference, and expectation propagation.
Applications: auditory neuroscience, genomics, and proteomics.
News and upcoming events
- EYSM 2025 (Torino, 21-25 July 2025)
- 5th Italian Meeting on Probability and Mathematical Statistics (Palermo, June 8-12, 2026)
- ISBA World Meeting (Nagoya, June 28-July 3, 2026)