Steering Group

DISIA – Director

Areas of expertise: multivariate models, graphical models, statistical learning

Biosketch: Anna Gottard is associate professor of Statistics at DiSIA, University of Florence. She serves as coordinator of the Statistics track for the PhD program in Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics of the University of Florence. 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.

DISIA - Deputy director

Areas of expertise: Bayesian modeling, Variable selection, Statistical computing, Nonparametric Bayes, Two-mode clustering.

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.

DISIA

Areas 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.