Ph.D. in Statistics

Current research includes model-based clustering, clustering algorithms, mixed-type data analysis, dimension reduction, outlier detection, clustering with missing values, and fuzzy clustering. 

Cristina started working at San Jose State University (SJSU) in 2016. Before coming to SJSU, Cristina was a post-doctoral research fellow at McMaster University (Canada) in 2015 and 2014, at the University of Guelph (Canada) in 2013, and at Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn of Naples (Italy) in 2012. She completed her Ph.D. at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the University of Naples “Federico II” in February 2012. 

Cristina won the Chikio Hayashi Award for young researchers in 2019 and the SJSU College of Science Award for research with and mentoring of  Students in 2024. She served as President of the San Francisco Bay Area ASA Chapter in 2022; she is currently the communication director. She was also elected director of the Classification Society from 2022 to 2026. 

Cristina was a visiting professor at the University of Naples Catania, Italy (Summer 2022, Fall 2024), the University of Naples Federico II (Italy) in the Summers of 2021 and 2017, and McEwan University Alberta (Canada) in 2019. She was also a visiting student at CEREMADE Paris Dauphine.

Cristina qualified as Full professor in Statistics in Italy in December 2023, as Associate professor in Statistics in Italy in June 2020, and as “Maître de Conférences” in applied mathematics in 2013, France, she obtained her Master degree in Statistics (Statistica per le decisione e l’analisi dei sistemi complessi) at the University of Naples “Federico II” in 2008 and obtained her Master 2 (Economie quantitative des comportements et des marchés) at the University “Lumiére Lyon II” in 2009.