Education and previous experiences
2019-2022 → Research fellow, Dept. of Communication & Economics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
2017-2019 → Contract professor (Social Media), Department of Statistical Sciences, School of Science, University of Padova
2012-2019 → Data Analyst - University of Padova
2012 → Ph.D. in Sociology and Social Research at the Human Sciences and Philosophy Doctoral School of Verona University
2009 → Internship and scientific cooperation with the SWG s.r.l. research institute in Trieste
2001-2008 → Data Analyst - University of Padova
2001 → Master degree in Statistics for the Demographic and Social Sciences at the Faculty of Statistics, University of Padova
Teaching
2024 → Course of "Social Networks", Degree Course in Communication, School of Human, Social and Cultural Heritage Sciences, University of Padova.
2023 → Course "Social Media", second cycle degree in Statistical Sciences, School of Science, University of Padova.
2023 → Course of Social Survey Techniques, Degree Course in Communication, School of Human, Social and Cultural Heritage Sciences, University of Padova.
2019-2022 → Course of Data analysis for digital marketing I, Department of Communication and Economics, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
2019 → Supervisor of the M.Sc. thesis in Statistics "Statistical models for popularity prediction of Social Media content: analysis of posts published by pages of newspapers in Instagram", Department of Statistics, School of Science, University of Padova
2019 → Course of Social Research Methodology, International Joint Ph.D. “Human Rights, Society, and Multi-level Governance”, Human Rights Centre, University of Padova
2017-2019 → Course "Social Media", second cycle degree in Statistical Sciences, Department of Statistical Sciences, School of Science, University of Padova
2015 → Lab "Participatory and Interpersonal Dynamics in the Study of Local Communities" in the course "Dynamics in Communication", Dept. of Political Sciences, University of Padova
2010-2012 → Subject Expert of the Dept. Time, Space, Image, Society for the Faculty of Education Science, University of Verona
2010 → Adjunct lecturer for the class “Research Methods Applied to Social Service”, Faculty of Education, University of Padova
2010 → Co-supervisor of the B.Sc. thesis in Statistics and Information Technologies "Indici di Social Network Analysis per misurare il capitale sociale: costruzione di una libreria con il software R e verifica di ipotesi su un caso di studio", Faculty of Statistics, University of Padova
2008 → Seminar speaker "Utilizzo del software LimeSurvey", University di Rome "Tor Vergata"
Conference talks
2025 → Calcagnì A., Finos L., Sciandra A., Tuzzi A., Dimensionality Reduction Methods for Authorship Attribution. The 13th International Quantitative Linguistics Conference, QUALICO 2025, June 28, 2025, Brno (Czech Republic), Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University.
2024 → Sciandra A. & Tuzzi, A., Application of large language models for different Italian text classification tasks and comparison with other feature extraction techniques, solicited session: Artificial Intelligence for Text Data: Advanced Methods and Applications (18/09/2024), ASA 2024 – Measuring and Interpreting World Changes with Statistics, Data Science and AI, Sapienza University of Rome, Department of Statistical Sciences.
2024 → Rodella, I., Sciandra, A., & Tuzzi, A., Analysis of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) evaluations and models for predicting the success of proposals. JADT - 17th International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Textual Data), 26/06/2024, UCLouvain Saint-Louis-Bruxelles.
2024→ Sciandra, A., & Tuzzi, A., Competing sets of predictors in an authorship attribution task: Most Frequent Words, Large Language Models and Correspondence Analysis, SIS 2024 - The 52nd Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society, 20/06/2024, University of Bari
2024 → Finos, L., & Sciandra, A., Analysis of Mastodon's Italian messages: networks, topics, LLM and machine learning, SIS 2024 - The 52nd Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society, 18/06/2024, University of Bari.
2024 → Sciandra, A., & Tuzzi, A., Can Correspondence Analysis Challenge Transformers in Authorship Attribution Tasks? Statistics and Data Science 2024 Conference - New perspectives on Statistics and Data Science, 12/04/2024, University of Palermo.
2023 → Sciandra, A., Trevisani, M., & Tuzzi, A., Diagnostics for topic modelling. The dubious joys of making quantitative decisions in a qualitative environment. Statistics for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, 27 April 2023, University of Pavia.
2022 → Sciandra, A., Dimensionality Reduction of Unstructured and Network Data for Stance Detection. JADT 2022 - 16th International Conference on Statistical Analysis of Textual Data, Napoli (Italy), 6 July, 2022.
2022 → Sciandra, A., & Ferretti, R. , Predictive performance comparisons of different feature extraction methods in a financial column corpus. 51st Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society (SIS 2022) , solicited session “Processing of textual data in large corpora”, Caserta (Italy), June 22, 2022.
2021 → Ferretti R. & Sciandra A., “Media and Investors’ Attention. Estimating analysts’ ratings and sentiment of a financial column to predict abnormal returns”. SIS 2021, Pisa (virtual), June 25, 2021.
2020 → A. Sciandra, "COVID-19 Outbreak through Tweeters’ Words: Monitoring Italian Social Media Communication about COVID-19 with Text Mining and Word Embeddings," 2020 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), Rennes, France.
2019 → Surian A. & Sciandra A., "City Prosperity Index: A comparative analysis of Latin American and Mediterranean cities based on well-being and social inclusion features", Scientific Conference on Statistics for Health and Well-Being, Department of Economics and Management, University of Brescia, September 26, 2019
2019 → Sciandra A., Surian A., Finos L. (2019). Classifying the Willingness to Act in Social Media Data: Supervised Machine Learning for U.N. 2030 Agenda, SIS 2019, Smart Statistics for Smart Applications , Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milano, June 21th, 2019
2019 → Sciandra A., Finos L., & Surian A., "Classification supervised models to disclose action and information in “U.N. 2030 Agenda” social media data", Second international conference on data science and social research, 5th February 2019 - Università IULM
2019 → Sciandra A., "Social media big data: state of the art of some methodological challenges", Second international conference on data science and social research, 4th February 2019 - University of Milano - Bicocca
2011 → Sciandra A., "Riflessioni sulla valutazione di un modello teorico: comparazione tra tecniche di analisi causale multivariata". In: XI incontro giovani Pontignano. Teorie, metodi, percorsi di ricerca. Le esperienze dei giovani sociologi a confronto, Pontignano, 24 giugno 2011
2010 → Maccarini A.M. & Sciandra A., “Making Our Way Through the Crisis. Life Course, Turning Points, and Personal Reflexivity”, presented by A.M. Maccarini at the XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology, Gothenburg, Sweden, 11-17 July, 2010.
Visiting experiences
1999-2000 → Erasmus student at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, UK (Dept. of Statistics and Modeling Sciences and Dept. of Computer & Information Sciences)
2024 → Waseda University (Tokyo) School of International Liberal Studies (Applied Emotion Recognition research)
Elective positions
2010-2011 → Ph.D. Student Representative in the Department of Time, Space, Image, Society board, University of Verona
Member of the Italian Association of Sociology (AIS) Social Policy section (2009-2010)