Steering Group

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.

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.

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.