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May 2026

• Starting next academic year, I will be (full) Professor. 

April 2026

• "A Spatiotemporal Physics-Motivated State-Space Model of Lake Temperature Profiles" with Luca Menicali, Diogo Bolster, David Richter, Stephen Jane and Stuart Jones has been accepted for publication in Environmental Science & Technology

February 2026

• "A Physics-Informed Spatiotemporal Deep Learning Framework for Turbulent Systems " with Luca Menicali, Andrew Jane and David Richter has been accepted for publication in the Journal of the American Statistical Association - Applications and Case Studies

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), Notre Dame Collegiate Associate Professor (2024-2026) and Professor (2026-).

The group's GitHub repository is available here