About me
I thought about keeping this “About me” page personal, but some professional content managed to sneak in nonetheless… Oh, well!
Education
| 2021 - 2025 | PhD in Statistics - University of Warwick (UK) Supervisors: Prof. Massimiliano Tamborrino and Lyudmila Grigoryeva |
| 2019 - 2021 | MSc in Statistics, major in Data Science - Bocconi University (Italy) Thesis: Tempered Stochastic Search of Bayesian CART Models. Supervisor: Prof. Giacomo Zanella |
| 2016 - 2019 | BSc in Economics and Computer Science - Bocconi University (Italy) Thesis: Machine Learning for Imbalanced Data. An Application to Customers Complaints. Supervisor: Prof. Daniele Durante |
| 2019 - 2019 | Exchange semester - Carnegie Mellon University, CMU (USA) |
Awards
- Reproducibility award at the Third BioInference Conference, for Nearest Neighbors GParareal: Improving Scalability of Gaussian Processes for Parallel-in-Time Solvers.
- Travel funding award at the 38th Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS 22024)
Who I am
I think of myself as a creative and a creator, usually buzzing with ideas: coding, DIY, ML & AI, robotics, you name it. A few examples:
- During my bachelor I created a self-hosted python-based platform for hosting Python hackathons. Back then, I co-founded a data science society in my uni (Bocconi), and we were running this python competitions in the university at large to encourage people to learn coding in a friendly environment.
- Across high school and early uni I tinkered quite a bit with Arduino: I was planning a video-surveillance system and a drone. Then, of course, uni happened and I shifted my energies elsewhere.
- As an example of DIY, I built two longbows from scratch in the past. To this day I still wonder how I did it.
Building the longbows took most of covid and about 3 books on the subject (The Traditional Bowyer’s Bible), but I was very proud of the result:
Perhaps one day I will post something about it.
But I digress.
I am very active, and I love the outdoors. I enjoy both hiking and climbing, being originally from the Italian Alps, and am working towards a professional mountain guide certification.