CONFERENCES 

2024 (Scheduled)

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."

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".

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.

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.

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

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

SEMINARS

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.