KEYNOTE TALKS

2023

Keynote Speaker at the International Workshop on Economics and Finance 2023. Presentation: "Classification of high-dimensional data via functional data analysis and random forest", June 6-7, Universidad de Almeria, Spain.

2021

Keynote Speaker at the plenary session of the International Francophone Conference on Data Science  CIFSD 2021. Presentation: "Supervised classification of ECG curves via a combined use of functional data analysis and tree-based methods to identify people affected by heart disease",  June 9-11, Marseille, France.

2024 

IFCS 2024 (18th International Federation of Classification Societies) San José, Costa Rica: Invited Speaker of the Contribution: "Improving functional classification performance through diversity: the functional voting approach".

SIS 2024 (The 52nd Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society), Bari, Italy: Co-author of the Contribution: "Supervised Classification of Functional Data via Ensembles of Different Functional Representations".

SIS 2024 (The 52nd Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society), Bari, Italy: Co-author of the Contribution: "Enhancing Graphical Interpretability for Functional Random Survival Forest". 

CARMA 2024 (6th International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics) Valencia, Spain: Co-author of the Contribution: "Data-Driven Strategies for Early Detection of Corporates’ Financial Distress".

SDS 2024 (Statistics and Data Science Conference), Palermo, Italy: Co-author of the contribution: "Random Survival Forest for Censored Functional Data". 

DSSR 2024, Data Science & Social Research, 4th international conference, Naples (Italy) on 25th-27th March 2024. Co-author of the contribution at the invited session "Data analysis methods for complex data with applications to business, economics, and the Environment". Contribution: "Statistical Learning Methods for Early Detection of Corporate Crises".

SIDREA 2024 (National Conference SIDREA 2024), Ancona, Italy. Co-author of the contribution: "Utilization of artificial intelligence for business safeguarding: Initial applications of machine learning techniques in crisis prediction." 

AMASES 2024 (XLVIII annual conference of the Italian Association for Mathematics Applied to Social and Economic Sciences) Ischia, Italy. Co-author of the contribution: "Studying the discount function through differential geometry: Stable and unstable intertemporal preferences.".

SoIPa 2024 (XXXIII Congresso Nazionale della Società Italiana di Parassitologia), Padova, Italy. Co-author of the contribution: "A ten-year retrospective study of gastrointestinal nematode infections in sheep farms in southern Italy."

AMASES 2024, Ischia, Italy (XLVIII Annual Meeting of the Association for Mathematics Applied to Social and Economic Sciences): Co-author of the contribution: "A Behavioral Approach to Inconsistencies in Intertemporal Choices with the Analytic Hierarchy Process Methodology".

DYSES 2024, Bucharest, Romania: Co-author of the contribution: "Justifying the Discounting Model Associated to the Jellinek Curve Through Time Deformations".

SIPAOC 2024, Sassari, Italy (XXV Congresso della Società Italiana di Patologia e di Allevamento degli Ovini e dei Caprini): Co-author of the contribution: "Studio Retrospettivo sulle Infezioni da Nematodi Gastrointestinali negli Ovini nel Sud Italia: Un'Esperienza Decennale".

2023 

CMSTATISTICS 2023 Berlin: Co-author of the talk at the invited session on Statistical methods for sustainable practices. Title: Random Survival Forest for Functional Data. The 16th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics, Berlin, Germany, 16-18 December 2023.

CMSTATISTICS 2023 Berlin: Speaker at the talk of the invited session on Functional Data Clustering. Title: Enhancing Performances in Curves' Classification: Learning from High-Dimensional Data via a Two-Step Approach. The 16th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics, Berlin, Germany, 16-18 December 2023.

DYSES 2023 Almeria: Co-author of the invited talk at the conference Dynamics of Socio-economic systems, October 17-19, 2023, Almeria, Spain. 

ECOSTA 2023 Tokyo: Speaker at the invited talk at the 6th International Conference on Econometrics and Statistics (EcoSta 2023) Conference, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan 1-3 August 2023. Presentation: “Supervised classification of high-dimensional data through functional data augmentation and random forest”.

IES 2023 Pescara: Co-author of the invited talk at the conference IES 2023 - Statistical Methods for Evaluation and Quality: Techniques, Technologies, and Trends, August 30, 2023 - September 1, 2023, Pescara, Italy. Authors: Maturo, Fortuna, Aguilera, Di Battista. Presentation: Supervised learning from high-dimensional data through dynamic updating of functional classification rules.

IES 2023 Pescara: Speaker at the invited talk at the IES2023 conference - Statistical Methods for Evaluation and Quality: Techniques, Technologies, and Trends, August 30, 2023 – September 1, 2023, Pescara, Italy. Authors: Martino, Ventre, Cruz, Maturo. Presentation: An original approach to anomalies in intertemporal choices through functional data analysis: Theory and application for the study of Hikikomori syndrome.

ITADATA 2023 Naples: Speaker at the invited talk at the 2nd Italian Conference on Big Data and Data Science, September 11-13, 2023, Naples, Italy. Title: A contribution to the explainability of the Random Forest results on medical data.

TIES 2023 Ottawa: Co-author of the invited talk at the 2023 TIES Regional Meeting, 24 July to 29 July 2023, Ottawa, Canada. Title: Functional Design-Based Estimation of Diversity Profiles.

SIS 2023 Ancona: Co-author of the invited talk at SIS 2023 - Statistical Learning, Sustainability and Impact Evaluation, Ancona (Italy), June 21-23, 2023. Authors: F Fortuna, F Maturo, T Di Battista. Presentation: Dynamic learning from data streams through the combined use of probability density functions and simplicial functional principal component analysis.

SDS 2023 Pavia: Co-author of the invited talk at the Statistics for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence conference, 27-28 April 2023 University of Pavia. Authors: Sabri Mohammed, Verde Rosanna, Maturo Fabrizio, Balzanella Antonio, Tairi Hamid, Yahyaouy Ali, Riffi Jamal. Presentation: A new supervised classification technique based on the joint use of K-nearest neighbours and weighted K-means to discover new patterns in the data.

2022

IFCS 2022 Porto: The 17th conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies, Porto, Portugal, on 19-23 July 2022. Presentation: "Functional Random Forest for biomedical signals classification and interpretative tools".

SEIO 2022 Granada: Co-author of the Invited Talk at the 39th Spanish Conference on Statistics and OR, Granada (Spain), June 7th to June 10th, 2022. Presentation: "Dimensionality reduction of high-dimensional data via probability density functions: an application to the forecasting problem". 

Co-author of the invited talk at the International Workshop on "Statistical inference for assessing and monitoring natural resources and biodiversity", November 8-9, 2022, Siena, Italy.   Authors: T Di Battista, SA Gattone, F Fortuna, F Maturo. Presentation: Functional design-based estimation of diversity profiles.

IES 2022: Invited Talk at the Innovation and Society 5.0: statistical and economic methodologies for quality assessment, January 27, 2022 – January 28, 2022, Capua (Italy). Presentation: Improving the quality of questionnaires via the combined use of functional outlier detection and Item Response Theory.

IES 2022: Invited Talk at the Innovation and Society 5.0: statistical and economic methodologies for quality assessment, January 27, 2022 – January 28, 2022, Capua (Italy). Presentation: Classification of ECG signals based on functional data analysis and machine learning techniques.

2021

DSSV-ECDA 2021: Data Science, Statistics and Visualization (DSSV) and the European Conference on Data Analysis (ECDA), July 7 – July 9, 2021. Presentation: Exploiting clustering to improve the performance of a functional classifier: An application to ECG data using a new semi-metric. 

SIS 2021: 50th edition of the Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society, 21-25 June 2021, Pisa, Italy. Presentation: Supervised classification of ECG curves via a combined use of functional data analysis and random forest to identify people affected by heart disease. 

TASK 2021:  4th AFU International Conference, Towards Advanced Scientific Knowledge (TASK), 19-20 May 2021, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Presentation: Supervised classification of curves through functional data augmentation and decision trees.

EGC 2021: Technology and Environment Workshop’21, March 26th, 2021, Paris, France. Presentation: “Supervised classification of curves via a combined use of functional data analysis and random forest”.

2019

Invited Talk at CLADAG 2019: 12-th Scientific Meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group, Cassino, September 11 – 13, 2019. Specialized session on "Statistical analysis of data streams". Presentation: "Unsupervised fuzzy classification for detecting similar functional objects". 

Partecipation as coauthor of the invited talk at CLADAG 2019: 12-th Scientific Meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group, Cassino, September 11 – 13, 2019. Specialized session on "Clustering of spatial data". Presentation: "Biodiversity spatial clustering". 

Partecipation as coauthor of the invited talk at ISI 2019: 62nd ISI World Statistics Congress, 18-23 Aug 2019, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Specialized session  "STS-486: Environmental Statistics and Climate Change". Presentation: "Inspecting ecological communities’ structure via functional data analysis". 

2018

Speaker at ERCIM 2018: 11th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics (CMStatistics 2018). University of Pisa, Italy, 14-16 December 2018. Presentation:"Assessing diversity over time via functional data analysis and related tools "

Speaker at DYSES 2018: Dynamics of Socio Economic Systems, October 9-12, 2018 - Paris, France. Presentation: “Measuring impatience, inconsistency, and magnitude effect with functional data analysis”.

Partecipation as coauthor of the invited talk at COMPSTAT 2018: The 23rd International Conference on Computational Statistics, 28-31 August 2018, Iasi, Romania, Presentation: “Data stream reduction via functional time series analysis”.

Partecipation as coauthor of the invited talk at COMPSTAT 2018: The 23rd International Conference on Computational Statistics, 28-31 August 2018, Iasi, Romania, Presentation: “Functional tools for increasing the accuracy of biodiversity assessment’”.

Invited talk at the international conference SIS 2018 (Solicited session on “Dimensional reduction techniques for Big Data Analysis”): 49th Scientific meeting of the Italian Statistical Society, June, 20-22, 2018, Palermo, Italy. Presentation: “Clustering Data Streams via Functional Data Analysis: a Comparison between Hierarchical Clustering and K-means Approaches”. 20-6-2018 to 22-6-2018

Speaker at the conference RTSS 2018: 5th International Conference “Recent Trends in Social Sciences”, May, 15-16, 2018, Iasi, Romania. Presentation: “Monitoring Workforce Diversity in Organizations over Time via Functional Data Analysis”

2017

Invited talk at the international conference IES 2017 "8th Scientific Conference on Innovation & Society, Statistical Methods for Evaluation and Quality”, September 6-7, 2017, Naples, Italy. Presentation: “Functional ANOVA for Evaluating Cognitive Abilities and School Performance”.  06-09-2017 to 07-09-2017

Invited talk at the international conference RTSS 2017 "3rd International Conference on Recent Trends in Social Sciences: Social Work”, March 13-16, 2017, Seville, Spain. Presentation: “Recent Advances in Measuring Heterogeneity in Organizational Studies”.  13-03-2017 to 16-03-2017.

2016

Invited talk at the international conference ICBAER 2016 International Conference on Business Administration and Economics “People. Ideas. Experience”. October 14-15, 2016, Resita, Romania. Presentation: “Measuring diversity in organizations: review and recent advances”.  14-10-2016 to 15-10-2016

Speaker at the conference FSMOA 2016 "Fuzzy Sets, Multivalued Operations, and Applications to Social Sciences". September 8–10, 2016, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. Presentation: “Fuzzy regression for the study of business phenomena”  08-09-2016 to 10-09-2016

Speaker at the conference FSMOA 2016 "Fuzzy Sets, Multivalued Operations, and Applications to Social Sciences". September 8–10, 2016, University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. Presentation: “Possible approaches to fuzzy probability.”  08-09-2016 to 10-09-2016

2015

Invited talk at the specialized session of the international conference ISI 2015 "60th World Statistics Congress" . Specialized session “High frequency processing and streaming data analysis”. July 26-30, 2015, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Presentation: “Recent advances in functional data stream classification”.  26-07-2015 to 30-07-2015

Invited talk at the International Conference “Humanities and social sciences today. classical and contemporary issues”. May 7-11, 2015, Iasi, Romania. Organized by the Romanian Academy, Iasi Branch, “Gheorghe Zane” Institute for Economic and Social Research. Presentation: “Fuzzy probability: alternative approaches and applications to Social Sciences”  07-05-2015 to 11-05-2015

Invited talk at the International Conference “Humanities and social sciences today. classical and contemporary issues”. May 7-11, 2015, Iasi, Romania. Part of the SOP HRD/159/1.5/S/133675 European Project “Innovation and Development in the Patterning and Representation of Knowledge Through PhD and Post-PhD Fellowships” (POSDRU/159/1.5/S/133675) project, financed from the European Social Fund through the Sectoral Operational Programme Human Resources Development 2007-2013. Presentation: “Corporate board diversity: A functional approach for its assessment”.  07-05-2015 to 11-05-2015

Speaker at the conference FSMOA 2015 "2d International Conference on Fuzzy Sets, Multivalued Operations and Applications to Social Sciences”, September  15-17, 2015, Chieti, Italy. Presentation: “Fuzzy Conditional Probability”.  15-09-2015 to 17-09-2015

Speaker at the international conference RTSS 2015. 3rd International Conference on “Recent Trends in Social Sciences: Qualitative Theories and Quantitative Models”. October 15-17, 2015, Brno, Czech Republic. Presentation: “Fuzzy Regression Models with Fuzzy Random Variables: Application in the Social and Economic Fields”.  15-10-2015 to 17-10-2015

Speaker at the international conference RTSS 2015. 3rd International Conference on “Recent Trends in Social Sciences: Qualitative Theories and Quantitative Models”. October 15-17, 2015, Brno, Czech Republic. Presentation: “Diversity in the Social and Economic Science: Review and Application”.  15-10-2015 to 17-10-2015

Speaker at the international conference RTSS 2015. 3rd International Conference on “Recent Trends in Social Sciences: Qualitative Theories and Quantitative Models”. October 15-17, 2015, Brno, Czech Republic. Presentation: “Analysis of the Inequalities of Abruzzo’s Provinces Through the Indices of Deprivation”.  15-10-2015 to 17-10-2015

2014

Speaker at the international conference IMFE 2014 "The International Conference on Marine and Freshwater Environments". August 6-8 , 2014, St. John’s, Canada. Presentation: “Parametric Functional Analysis of Variance for Fish Biodiversity”.  06-08-2014 to 08-08-2014

Poster Presentation at the Conference SIS 2014 "47th SIS Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society". June 11-13, 2014. Cagliari, Italy. Presentation: “Bell Shaped Fuzzy Numbers Associated with the Normal Curve”.  11-06-2014 to 13-06-2014

Speaker at the conference MATHESIS 2014 "L’educazione matematica oggi: test, gare e interrelazioni con altre discipline". February 28, 2014, Ottaviano, Italy. Presentation: “Probability and Statistics Tests: a Critical Analysis”.  28-02-2014 to 28-02-2014

Speaker at the international conference RoAIMS 2014, 2nd edition of “ROMAI Applied and Industrial Mathematics Symposium”. June 12-15, 2014, Iasi, Romania. Presentation: “Fuzzy Regression”.  12-06-2014 to 15-06-2014

2013

Speaker at the International Workshop on “Algebraic And Analytic Number Theory And Their Applications". May 23-24, 2013. Costanza. Romania. Presentation: “Finite Geometric Spaces, Steiner Systems and Cooperative Games”.  23-05-2013 to 24-05-2013

Speaker at the conference MATHESIS 2013 "La matematica nel primo ciclo: aspetti didattici, sociologici e interdisciplinari". April 4-6, 2013, Chieti, Italy. Presentation: “The Olympic Games for the Promotion of Statistical Reasoning and new Technologies in the School”.  04-04-2013 to 06-04-2013

2012

Speaker at the international conference ICEKU 2012 "1st international conference on econometrics methods and applications". August 25-27, 2012, Sanandaj, Iran. Presentation: “Social Science Research: Fuzzy Sets and Econometric Models”.  25-08-2012 to 27-08-2012

Speaker at the international conference RTSS 2012 "1st International Conference on Recent Trends in Social Sciences: Qualitative Theories and Quantitative Models". September 23-25, 2012, Iasi, Romania. Presentation: “Fuzzy Regression in Social Sciences”.  23-09-2012 to 25-09-2012

Speaker at the conference MATHESIS 2012 "Innovazioni didattiche e formazione degli insegnanti. Ruolo dell’università e della Mathesis". May 24, 2012. Chieti, Italy. Presentation: “Statistical Games and Educational Innovation”.  24-05-2012 to 24-05-2012

SEMINARI

June 2023

Seminar at the Departamento de Economía y Empresa, Universided de Almeria, Spain.

Title: Supervised classification of high-dimensional data via a combined use of functional data analysis and tree-based methods.

May 2022

Seminar at the International Degree Course in Data Science, Federico II University, Naples, Italy.

Title: Introduction to some FDA applications.

May 2022

Seminar at the International Degree Course in Data Science, Federico II University, Naples, Italy.

Title: Introduction to functional data analysis (FDA).

July 2021

Seminar at the International Degree Course in Data Science, Federico II University, Naples, Italy.

Title: Introduction to functional data analysis (FDA).

March 2021

Seminar on Statistics and Educational Innovations for school teachers.

Title: Teaching Mathematics, Physics and Statistics with a modern approach.

December 2020

Seminar on Probability and Statistics within the MIUR project Paths for soft skills and orientation.

Organized by Liceo Garofano, Capua, Italy.

Title: Probability theorems: total probabilities and Bayes' theorem, introduction to random variables, binomial, normal.

March 2020

Seminar on Basic Statistics within the MIUR project School-Work Alternation.

Seminar organized by Liceo Garofano, Capua, Italy.

Title: From data to information: Position and variability.

February 2020

Seminar on Basic Statistics within the MIUR project School-Work Alternation.

Seminar organized by Liceo Garofano, Capua, Italy.

Title: From data to information: Measuring Association.

March 2019

Seminar on the research carried out in the field of statistical methods for the evaluation of biodiversity, NUIG Galway

National University of Ireland, Galway.

Title: Unsupervised Classification of Ecological Communities Ranked According to their Biodiversity Patterns via a Functional Principal Component Decomposition of Hill's Numbers' Integral Functions.

Aprile 2014

Istituto Gaetano Cardelli, Mosciano Sant'Angelo, Teramo, Italia.

Titolo: la costruzione di questionari on-line su piattaforma e-learning e l’analisi dei dati.