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Anna Gottard
DISIA
Area of expertise: Graphical models, Multivariate models, Statistical machine learning, Circular statistics
Biosketch: Anna Gottard is associate professor of Statistics at DiSIA, University of Florence and Director of the Florence Center for Data Science. She serves as associate editor for the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series A and for Statistical Methods & Applications. Her current research interest concerns fair/interpretable statistical machine learning, tree-embedded models, graphical models, mixture models under latent uncertainty and multivariate models for angles and directional data.
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Alberto Cassese
DISIA - Deputy director
Area of expertise: Bayesian modeling, Variable selection, Statistical computing, Nonparametric Bayes, Two-mode clustering.
Biosketch: Alberto Cassese is an RTD-B (Assistant professor with tenure) of Statistics at DiSIA, University of Florence. His academic journey includes roles at institutions such as Rice University and Maastricht University. Alberto is dedicated to innovative statistical methodologies, driven by their practical applications in real-world scenarios. His research expertise encompasses several topics, spanning high-dimensional complex data (including -omics data), behavioral data, flu data and mass-spectrometry data.
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Donatella Merlini
DISIA
Area of expertise: Analysis of algorithms, data structures and algorithms, databases and data mining, combinatorics, asymptotics, symbolic computation
Biosketch: Associate Professor of Computer Science. Her research activity includes formal methods for the analysis of algorithms and data structures, analytical combinatorics and symbolic computation. Among her more recent interests, the study of data mining and machine learning algorithms both at a theoretical/methodological level and through applications in specific contexts such as education.