Curriculum Vitae

Current position

• Postdoctoral associate
  • Department of Statistics and Data Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin
  • Period: Oct. 2025 - ongoing
  • Supervisor: Yang Ni

Education

• Ph.D. in Statistics
  • Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova
  • Period: Oct. 2022 - Sept. 2025
  • Thesis: Bayesian Nonparametric Multiple Random Partition Models
  • Supervisor: Antonio Canale
  • Co-supervisors: Peter Müller, Abhra Sarkar
• Master’s degree in Statistical Sciences
  • Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova
  • Period: Oct. 2019 - March 2022
  • Thesis: A Topic Modeling Algorithm for Microblogs
  • Supervisor: Emanuele Di Buccio
  • Final mark: 110/110 cum laude
• Bachelor’s degree in Statistics for Technology and Science
  • Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova
  • Period: Oct. 2016 - Nov. 2019
  • Thesis: Design and Implementation of a Video Search Engine and a Graphical User Interface for Sentiment Analysis
  • Supervisors: Massimo Melucci, Emanuele Di Buccio
  • Final mark: 101/110

Visiting periods

• Department of Statistics and Data Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin
  • Period: March 2024 - Sept. 2025
  • Supervisors: Peter Müller, Abhra Sarkar

Research activities

• Research fellowship
  • Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padova
  • Period: June 2022 - Oct. 2022
  • Title: Development of R libraries for the implementation of Bayesian models for sc-RNA-seq data
  • Supervisors: Antonio Canale, Davide Risso
  • Duties: Implementation in R and C++ of Bayesian models for sc-RNA-seq data.
• Research fellowship
  • Department of Information Engineering, University of Padova
  • Period: March 2020 - April 2020
  • Title: Design, implementation, and use of a computer system for online acquisition of multimodal documents and real-time opinion analysis
  • Supervisor: Massimo Melucci
  • Duties: Design and implementation of a graphical interface allowing real-time analysis of opinions expressed in a video through multimodal sentiment analysis.

Awards

• Best poster award at BAYSM 2026, Chiba, Japan (June 2026).
• Travel award at BNP 14, Los Angeles, CA, USA (June 2025).
• Best poster award at ISBA 2024, Venice, Italy (July 2024).

Full CV

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