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August 2025

• "Modeling High-Resolution Spatio-Temporal Wind with Deep Echo State Networks and Stochastic Partial Differential Equations" with Kesen Wang, Minwoo Kim and Marc Genton has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society - Series C

July 2025

• New NSF CDS&E-MSS PI grant awarded ($240,000). "Physics Informed Forecast of High Resolution Spatio-Temporal Data with a Functional Spatial Regression Framework with PDE Smoothing", with co-PI David Richter (University of Notre Dame) and collaborator Laura Sangalli (Politecnico di Milano).

June 2025

• "Physics-Informed Priors with Application to Turbulent Boundary Layer Velocity", with Luca Menicali and David Richter has been accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems

Background

I obtained my BSc and MSc in Mathematical Engineering at the Politecnico di Milano in 2005 and 2007 respectively. After a 6 months fellowship at the same institution, I moved to the University of Chicago where I obtained my PhD in Statistics in 2013 under the supervision of Prof. Michael Stein. In 2013 I moved to King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (Saudi Arabia), where I was a Postdoctoral Fellow working with Prof. Marc Genton. From 2014 to 2017 I was Lecturer at Newcastle University (United Kingdom), before moving to the University of Notre Dame where I was appointed Assistant Professor (2017-2021), Huisking Foundation, Inc. Assistant Professor (2021-2022), Associate Professor (2022-2024) and Notre Dame Collegiate Associate Professor (2024-).

The group's GitHub repository is available here