Experience

Visiting professor

• University of Catania, Italy, July and September 2022

• University of Naples Federico II, Italy, June-July 2021

• McEwan University, Alberta Canada, June 2019

• University of Naples Federico II, Italy, June-July 2017

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 and awards

• Editorial Committee member for the IFCS 2022 Machine Learning Journal special issue,

• PI for the NSF statistics grant 'A family of versatile mixture models for analyzing mixed-type data with asymmetry, outliers, and missing values' (link)

• 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)

• Winner of Chikio Hayashi Award 2019

• Winner of IFCS benchmark data analysis challenge 2017

• 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.

• Editing of the volume: M. Gettler Summa and al. Statistical Learning and Data Science. Chapman & Hall 2011(layout LATEX).

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