Awards
Winner of SJSU College of Science Awards for Research with and Mentoring of Students 2024
Winner of Chikio Hayashi Award 2019
Winner of IFCS benchmark data analysis challenge 2017
Visiting professor
University of Catania, Italy, July and September 2022, September - December 2024, and 2025, January 2024.
University of Pretoria, South Africa, June-July 2024, August 2025
Stellenbosch University, South Africa, July 2025
University of Naples Federico II, Italy, June-July 2017 and 2021, January 2025.
McEwan University, Alberta, Canada, June 2019
Editorial services
Associate Editor for Journal of Classification 2024-2026
Associate Editor (Methods Section) for Statistical Methods & Applications 2022-2023
Editorial Committee member for the IFCS 2022 Machine Learning Journal special issue
Editing of the volume: M. Gettler Summa and al. Statistical Learning and Data Science. Chapman & Hall 2011(layout LATEX)
Collaborations
Intuit, Active Labeling using Generalized Hyperbolic Mixtures Model-based Classification
Mineta Transportation Institute: Evaluation of Different Coordinated Ramp Metering (CRM) Systems
Mineta Transportation Institute: Harassment on Transit
FDA: Training Decay Selection for Medical Product Usability Validation Testing
Forecast Analyst Krosselds Van Beresteijnstraat, Vught, Netherlands, December 2016 and June 2018, Model based cluster analysis, Geometric Morphometrics and Independent Component Analysis
Focus Marketing, Naples, Italy, Statistical senior consultant, 2008-2013. Customer satisfaction analysis, Marketing research
Campania e Innovazione, Naples, Italy, Statistician, 2012. Innovation measurement and modeling.
Bioprogram, Naples, Italy, Statistical manager, 2009-2012. Processing and calculation of the uncertainty indices of measurement, Processing and analysis of control charts.
External Service
PI for the NSF statistics grant 'A family of versatile mixture models for analyzing mixed-type data with asymmetry, outliers, and missing values' (link)
Elected director for The Classification Society, 2022-2024, 2025-2027
Communications Director San Francisco Bay Area ASA Chapter 2024/2025
President San Francisco Bay Area ASA Chapter (link)
President elected San Francisco Bay Area ASA Chapter (link)
Non-elected director for The Classication Society, 2021-2023 (link)
Vice president for General Applications San Francisco Bay Area ASA Chapter (2019-2021) (link)
Leader of a research project (CAMCOS) for Intuit at San Jose State University
Developed a concentration in machine learning for the MS statistics at San Jose State University
Agreement coordinator for an international cooperation in education and research between San Jose State University and University of Naples Federico II, Italy
Faculty in residence, San Jose State University, August 2016-June 2018
Membership of professional societies
American Statistical Association (ASA) 2018-2023.
The classification society (CS), 2014-2023.
International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC) 2017-2018.
Statistical Society of Canada (SSC), 2013-2016.
Italian Statistical Society (SIS), 2009-2012.
Classication and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society (CLADAG), 2012.
Skills
Spoken languages
– Mother tongue: Italian
– Fluent: English, French
Programming and Markup Languages
– Expert: Matlab, R, LATEX
– Intermediate: Python, SAS-IML, SQL, Visual Basic, Fortran