Presentations
Oral Presentations at Conferences & Meetings
Plenary sessions
Component-wise flexible tail behavior in model-based clustering, July 2023 Working group on model-based clustering, Pittsburgh (PA, USA)
Invited or contributed sessions
Clustering with missing data using normal-scale mixture models, December 2023: CFE-CM Statistics, Berlin (Germany) invited.
Model-based clustering and outlier detection using flexible distributions, May 2023 AMS Spring Western Sectional Meeting, Fresno (CA, USA).
Spectral clustering for mixed-type data, September 2022: ECDA European Conference on Data Analysis, Naples (Italy)
Model-based clustering and outlier detection with missing data, July 2022: IFCS Conference of International Federation of Classification Societies, Porto (Portugal).
Clustering and directional outlier detection with missing data, June 2022: Classification Society meeting, Waterloo (ON Canada).
On clustering and outlier detection with missing data, December 2021: CFE-CM Statistics, London (England) invited.
A Spectral clustering approach for mixed-type data, November 2021: Classification Society meeting, Lewisburg, PA USA
How Many Clusters Are Best? Investigating Model Selection in Robust Clustering, August 2021: JSM Joint Statistical meeting, online (Undergraduate student Louis Tran presented)
Clustering and Directional Outlier Detection with Missing Information, August 2021: JSM Joint Statistical meeting, online (MS student Hung Tong presented)
Spectral Clustering of Mixed-type Data, June 2021: Symposium on Data Science and Statistics, online (MS student Felix Mbudga presented)
Cluster analysis and outlier detection with missing data, September 2020: Model based clustering and classification 2 (MBC2), Catania (Italy).
On model-based learning and directional outlier detection,13-16 December 2019: CFE-CM Statistics, London (England) invited.
Active labeling using model-based classification, 26-29 August 2019 IFCS Conference of International Federation of Classification Societies, Thessaloniki (Greece) invited.
Recent advances on probabilistic distance clustering, 19-22 June 2019 CS Classification Society meeting, Edmonton (Canada).
Advances in Model-based Clustering and Outlier Detection, 26-29 May 2019 SSC Statistical Society of Canada Annual Meeting, Calgary (Canada) invited.
Model-based cluster analysis and outlier detection, 27 July 2 August 2018 JSM Joint Statistical meeting, Vancouver (Canada) .
Flexible clustering methods for high dimensional data sets, 20-22 June 2018 49 scientific meeting of Italian Statistical Society, Palermo (Italy) invited.
The Multiple Scaled Contaminated Gaussian Distribution, 8-10 August 2017 IFCS Conference of International Federation of Classification Societies, Tokyo (Japan) invited.
Mixture of coalesced distributions for high-dimensional data clustering, 9-12 December 2016 CFE-CM Conference, Sevilla (Spain) invited.
Mixture of Coalesced Generalized Hyperbolic Distributions 6-8 July 2015 IFCS Conference of International Federation of Classification Societies, Bologna (Italy)
Mixture of Coalesced Generalized Hyperbolic Distributions for high dimensional data sets 3-6 June 2015 The Classification Society Meeting, Hamilton (Canada)
Mixture of Coalesced Generalized Hyperbolic Distributions 3-5 September 2014 MBC2 Model Based Clustering and Classification, Catania (Italy)
Mixture of Multiple Scaled Generalized Hyperbolic Distributions 3-7 August 2014 JSM Joint Statistical Meetings, Boston (USA)
Mixtures of generalized hyperbolic factor analyzers 25-28 May 2014 42st meeting of Canadian Statistical Society, Toronto (Canada)
Mixtures of generalized hyperbolic distributions for high dimensional dat sets 20-21 May 2014 Southwestern Ontario Graduate Mathematics and Statistics conference, Guelph (Canada)
A simulation study comparing different (mixture and non-mixture) approaches to clustering high-dimensional data 14-16 December 2013 ERCIM, London (England) invited.
Mixtures of generalized hyperbolic factor analyzers 19-20 September 2013 CLADAG, Modena (Italy) invited.
Probabilistic and distance based factor clustering: a review.26-29 May 2013: 41st meeting of Canadian Statistical Society, Edmonton (Canada).
Phenological responses to climate change. 3-7 December 2012 : LTER-Europe Annual Meeting- Sofia (Bulgaria).
Robustness and Stability analysis of Factor PD-clustering on large social datasets. 3-4 September . 2012: Join meeting of Japanese and Italian Classification Society, CLADAG, Capri (Italy).
Co-Clustering techniques in Official statistics. 20-22 June 2012 : 46 scientific meeting of Italian Statistical Society, Rome (Italy) invited.
Different clustering algorithms for extracting information from textual databases. 7-9 May 2012 : Symposium on learning and data science (SLDS), Firenze (Italy) invited.
Factorial PD-clustering. 31 Aug.- 2 Sep. 2011 : 35th day of the German classification society GfKl, Frankfurt (Germany).
CD-clustering. 9-11 Feb 2011 : Correspondence Anlysis and Related MEthod, CARME, Rennes (France).
Etude comparée de classifications sur matrices très creuses et de grandes dimensions. 24-28 May 2010 : 42th day of the French Statistical Society (2es Journées de la Soc. Francaise de Statistique), Marseille (France).
Clustering in feature space for interesting pattern identification of categorical data. 23-25 September 2009: Scientific meeting of SIS, Statistical Methods for the analysis of large data-sets, Pescara (Italy) .
Seminars
Probabilistic distance clustering: insights and recent advances, 29 September 2022, University of Catania, Italy.
Advances in Model-based Clustering and Outlier Detection with missing data, 19 November 2021, University La Sapienza, Italy.
MS in data science, a joint work of the Statistics and Computer Science departments,5 February 2021, The CSU Math Council Colloquia, online
Cluster analysis: finding patterns within the data, 2 November 2020, SJSU CIRM Master Program, CA, USA
Cluster analysis: finding patterns within the data, 18 September 2020, SJSU College of Science Seminar, CA, USA
On model-based learning and directional outlier detection, 27 February 2020, Reed College OR, USA.
On model-based clustering and directional outlier detection, 30 January 2020, Santa Clara University CA, USA.
On model-based clustering and directional outlier detection, 21 January 2020, San Diego State University CA, USA.
On model-based clustering and directional outlier detection, 16 January 2020, University of Essex, Colchester, England.
Model-based Clustering and Outlier Detection, 15 May 2019, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of American Statistical Association Monthly seminar, UCSF, CA USA
Model based clustering, 10-11 January 2019, LIUC, Castellanza, Italy.
Multiple Scaled Distributions in model based clustering, 12 June 2018, INRIA, Lille, France.
Model Based Clustering Using Multiple Scaled Distributions, 4 December 2017, University of California Santa Cruz, USA.
What is model based clustering? Recent developments and applications, 4 July 2017, University of Naples Federico II, Italy.
Recent development in model based clustering, 30 September 2016, San Jose State University, USA.
On Cluster Analysis via non-Gaussian models, 17 February 2016, San José State University, California, USA
Clustering avec des modèles de mélange non gaussien, 1 February 2016, Univesrité du Quebec a Montreal, Canada
On Cluster Analysis via non-Gaussian models, 13 November 2015, California State University Channel Isalnds, USA
On Cluster Analysis using Mixture of GHDs, 13 January 2015, Ottawa University, Ontario, Canada
Cluster analysis using the generalized hyperbolic distribution, 14 October 2014, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
Factor probabilistic distance clustering, 18 February 2014, McGill University, Quebec, Canada.
Factor probabilistic distance clustering, 4 October 2013, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada.
Approches en classification pour l’identification de clusters sur des données qualitatives, 18 February 2010,(Clustering approaches for identifying clusters of qualitative data), CEREMADE Université Dauphine Paris (France).