Augusto Fasano - Research

Articles in refereed journals

Fasano, A., Denti, F. (2025+). Multivariate Gaussian cumulative distribution functions as the marginal likelihood of their dual Bayesian probit models. Biometrika, forthcoming. [postprint] [link][code]
Anceschi, N., Fasano, A., Durante, D., and Zanella, G. (2023). Bayesian conjugacy in probit, tobit, multinomial probit and extensions: a review and new results. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 118(542), 1451-1469. [link] [code]
Ferraccioli, F., Riccetti, N., Fasano, A., Mourelatos, S., Kioutsioukis, I., and Stilianakis, N. I. (2023). Effects of climatic and environmental factors on mosquito population inferred from West Nile virus surveillance in Greece. Scientific Reports, 13(18803). [link]
Riccetti, N., Ferraccioli, F., Fasano, A., and Stilianakis, N. I. (2023). Demographic characteristics associated with West Nile virus neuroinvasive disease – A retrospective study on the wider European area 2006-2021. PLoS ONE 18(9): e0292187. [link]
Fasano, A., Durante, D., and Zanella, G. (2022). Scalable and accurate variational Bayes for high-dimensional binary regression models. Biometrika, 109(4), 901-919. [link] [code]
Fasano, A., and Durante, D. (2022). A class of conjugate priors for multinomial probit models which includes the multivariate normal one. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 23(30), 1-16. [link]
Fasano, A., Riccetti, N., Angelou, A., Gomez-Ramirez, J., Ferraccioli, F., Kioutsioukis, I., and Stilianakis, N. I. (2022). An epidemiological model for mosquito host selection and temperature-dependent transmission of West Nile virus. Scientific Reports, 12(19946). [link]
Riccetti, N., Fasano, A., Ferraccioli, F., Gomez-Ramirez, J., and Stilianakis, N. I. (2022). Host selection and forage ratio in West Nile virus–transmitting Culex mosquitoes: Challenges and knowledge gaps. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, 16(10): e0010819. [link]
Fasano, A., Rebaudo, G., Durante, D., and Petrone, S. (2021). A Closed-Form Filter for Binary Time Series. Statistics and Computing, 31(47), 1-20. [link]

Refereed conference proceedings and book chapters

Fasano, A., Rimella, L., and Rebaudo ,G. (2025). Empirical bayes for the ridge penalty in probit models. Statistics for Innovation III: SIS 2025, Short Papers, Contributed Sessions 2, 200-205. [link]
Anceschi N., Fasano, A., and Rebaudo G. (2023). Expectation propagation for the smoothing distribution in dynamic probit. Bayesian Statistics, New Generations New Approaches (BAYSM 2022), 105-115. [link] [code]
Fasano, A., Anceschi N., Franzolini, B., and Rebaudo, G. (2023). Efficient computation of predictive probabilities in probit models via expectation propagation. Book of Abstracts and Short Papers - CLADAG 2023, 449-452. [link] [code]
Franzolini, B., Bondi, L., Fasano, A., and Rebaudo, G. (2023). Bayesian forecasting of multivariate longitudinal zero-inflated counts: an application to civil conflict. Book of Abstracts and Short Papers - CLADAG 2023, 465-468. [link]
Fasano, A., Anceschi N., Franzolini, B., and Rebaudo, G. (2023). Efficient expectation propagation for posterior approximation in high-dimensional probit models. Book of Short Papers - SIS 2023, 1133-1138. [link] [code]
Fasano, A., Rebaudo, G., and Anceschi, N. (2022). Bayesian Inference for the Multinomial Probit Model under Gaussian Prior Distribution. Book of Short Papers - SIS 2022, 871-876. [link]
Fasano, A., and Rebaudo, G. (2021). Variational Inference for the Smoothing Distribution in Dynamic Probit Models. Book of Short Papers - SIS 2021, 1076-1081. [link] [code]

Refereed discussions

Amongero, M., Buttigliero, Y.F., Dalla Pria, M., and Fasano, A., (2025). Contributed discussion on “A Tree Perspective on Stick-Breaking Models in Covariate-Dependent Mixtures” by Horiguchi, Chan, and Ma. Bayesian Analysis, in press.
Catalano, M., Fasano, A., Giordano, M., and Rebaudo, G. (2025). Contributed discussion on “Data fission: splitting a single data point” by Leiner, Duan, Wasserman, and Ramdas. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 120(549), 158. [link]
Catalano, M., Fasano, A., Giordano, M., and Rebaudo, G. (2024). Contributed discussion on “Root and community inference on the latent growth process of a network” by Crane and Xu. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology, qkae051. [link]
Rebaudo, G., Fasano, A., Franzolini, B., and Müller, P. (2023). Contributed discussion on “Evaluating sensitivity to the stick-breaking prior in Bayesian nonparametrics” by Giordano, Liu, Jordan, and Broderick. Bayesian Analysis, 18(1), 345-347. [link]
Catalano, M., Fasano, A. and Rebaudo G. (2023). Contributed discussion on “Martingale Posterior Distributions” by Fong, Holmes, and Walker. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology, 85(5), 1406-1407, qkad095. [link]

Preprints

Anceschi, N., Fasano, A., Franzolini, B., and Rebaudo, G. (2024+). Scalable expectation propagation for generalized linear models. [arXiv][code]
Fasano, A., Lijoi, A., Prünster, I., and Rebaudo, G. (2024+). Probabilistic discovery of new species and homogeneous subpopulations.

Participation to Conferences and Seminars

Sep. 2025 SISBAYES 2025 [Second Workshop of the Italian Statistical Society group SISBayes], Padua, IT, invited talk.
Jun. 2025 SIS 2025 [Statistics for Innovation - 54th Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society], Genoa, IT, contributed talk.
May 2025 BISP14 [Bayesian Inference in Stochastic Processes], Milan, IT, invited talk.
May 2025 University of Bergamo Seminar Series on Statistics and Computational Methods, Bergamo, IT, invited talk.
Jul. 2024 ISBA 2024 World Meeting [International Society for Bayesian Analysis], Venice, IT, poster session.
Dec. 2023 CMStatistics-ERCIM 2023 [16th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics], online, invited talk.
Sep. 2023 CLADAG 2023 [14th Scientific Meeting of the SIS Classification and Data Analysis Group], Salerno, IT, contributed talk.
Jun. 2023 SIS 2023 [Statistical Learning, Sustainability and Impact Evaluation - 52nd Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society], Ancona, IT, contributed talk.
Mar. 2023 Catholic University Seminar Series, Milano, IT, invited alk.
Jun. 2022 ISBA 2022 World Meeting [International Society for Bayesian Analysis], Montréal, CA, invited talk (as Savage award finalist- Applied Methodology).
Jun. 2022 SIS 2022 [51st Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society], Caserta, IT, contributed talk, accepted for presentation, but I did not participate due to illness.
Dec. 2021 CMStatistics-ERCIM 2021 [14th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics], London, UK, online, invited talk.
Jun. 2021 ISBA @ CIRM Mirror Workshop, Marseille, FR, contributed talk.
Jun. 2021 ISBA 2021 World Meeting [International Society for Bayesian Analysis], Online, contributed talk.
Jun. 2021 SIS 2021 [50th Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society], Pisa, IT, Online, contributed talk.
Dec. 2020 CMStatistics-ERCIM 2020 [13th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics], London, UK, online, invited talk.
Nov. 2020 BAYSM:O [Bayesian Young Statisticians Meeting: Online], invited talk.
Aug. 2020 Bernoulli-IMS One World Symposium 2020, Online conference, contributed talk.
Jul. 2019 O'Bayes 2019 [Objective Bayes Methodology Conference], Warwick, UK, poster session.
Jun. 2019 BNP12 [12th International Conference on Bayesian Nonparametrics], Oxford, UK, poster session.
Jun. 2019 Second Italian Meeting in Probability and Statistics, Vietri sul Mare, IT, invited talk.
Jul. 2018 BAYSM [Bayesian Young Statisticians Meeting], Warwick, UK.
Jun. 2018 ISBA 2018 World Meeting [International Society for Bayesian Analysis], Edinburgh, UK.
Jun. 2017 BISP10 [Bayesian Inference in Stochastic Processes], Milan, IT, poster session.

Editorial Work

I serve as reviewer for the following statistical journals (in alphabetical order):

Advances in Statistical Analysis; Bayesian Analysis; Biometrics; Econometrics and Statistics; Electronic Journal of Statistics; Health and Social Care in the Community; Journal of Business & Economic Statistics; Journal of Choice Modelling; Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics; Journal of Econometrics; Journal of Inequalities and Applications; Journal of Scientific Computing; Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference; Journal of the American Statistical Association; Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Statistical Methodology); Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C (Applied Statistics); Statistical Methods & Applications; Statistical Science; Statistics and Computing; Statistics and Probability Letters; Statistics in Medicine