Alessandro Bitetto is Assistant Professor in Statistics at the Department of Economics and Management of University of Pavia. He got an MSc in Applied Mathematics. He spent 5 years as data scientist in two major consulting firms for bank/insurance working with econometric models, PDE and machine learning for collections prioritization. His research interest deals with FinTech applications by the means of network theory, dimensionality reduction to build data-driven financial indexes and credit risk models. Expertise in Deep Learning for Representation Learning and Graph Neural Networks. He is an external collaborator at University of Milan for Mathematics and Logic, teaching assistant of Big Data Analysis and lecturer of Introduction to Python programming and Advanced Statistics at University of Pavia.