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Veronica Distefano is researcher in Statistics at the Telematic University “Pegaso”, Faculty of Economics and Law, Department of Management and Economics since February 2025. Previously, she has been researcher in Statistics at the Department of Economic Sciences of the University of Salento and at the same University, she has held a PhD degree in Statistics, and worked as PostDoc fellow in several research projects aiming to develop statistical models for reducing the dimensionality and forecasting of spatial data.

Since 2012 she has been member of the Italian Statistical Society (SIS) and since 2019 she has been member of research unit Complexity and Data Analysis at the ECLT (European Centre for Living Technology) of the "Ca' Foscari" University of Venice where she has participated as PostDoc fellow in several projects and collaborations at national and international levels.

Her research interests have regarded the development of new analytical methodologies (in machine learning, dimension reduction and model-based genetic algorithm for predictive model selection) to analyze the information contained in different type of data for big data sets. 

She is author of several publications as international journal articles, book chapters and conference abstracts.