International Conferences as Speaker

2026

SEIO 2026 (XLII National Conference on Statistics, Operations Research and Data Science), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, 2–5 September 2026. Role: invited speaker in the Hispano-Italian Session. Contribution: Functional Independent Component Analysis for Random Survival Forests with Censored Functional Data.

2025

HiTEc & CoDES 2025 (Workshop on Complex Data in Econometrics and Statistics), Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus, 8–9 July 2025. Role: speaker. Contribution: Partial Dependence and Functional Principal Component-Based Reconstruction for Explainable Functional Random Forests.

IES 2025 (Innovation & Society: Statistics and Data Science for Evaluation and Quality), Bressanone, Italy, 2025. Role: speaker. Contribution: New Perspectives on Explainability Tools for Functional Random Forests.

IES 2025 (Innovation & Society: Statistics and Data Science for Evaluation and Quality), Bressanone, Italy, 2025. Role: speaker. Contribution: Leveraging Functional Diversity in Statistical Ensemble Learning for Robust Functional Data Classification.

2024

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

2023

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

International Workshop on Economics and Finance 2023, Universidad de Almería, Spain, 6–7 June 2023. Role: keynote speaker. Contribution: Classification of high-dimensional data via functional data analysis and random forest.

ITADATA 2023 (2nd Italian Conference on Big Data and Data Science), Naples, Italy, 11–13 September 2023. Role: speaker at the invited talk. Contribution: A contribution to the explainability of the Random Forest results on medical data.

IES 2023 (Statistical Methods for Evaluation and Quality: Techniques, Technologies, and Trends), Pescara, Italy, 30 August–1 September 2023. Role: speaker at the invited talk. Contribution: An original approach to anomalies in intertemporal choices through functional data analysis: theory and application for the study of hikikomori syndrome.

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

2022

IFCS 2022 (17th Conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies), Porto, Portugal, 19–23 July 2022. Role: speaker. Contribution: Functional Random Forest for biomedical signals classification and interpretative tools.

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

IES 2022 (Innovation and Society 5.0: statistical and economic methodologies for quality assessment), Capua, Italy, 27–28 January 2022. Role: invited speaker. Contribution: Classification of ECG signals based on functional data analysis and machine learning techniques.

2021

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

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

CIFSD 2021 (International Francophone Conference on Data Science), Marseille, France, 9–11 June 2021. Role: keynote speaker. Contribution: Supervised classification of ECG curves via a combined use of functional data analysis and tree-based methods to identify people affected by heart disease.

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

EGC 2021 (Technology and Environment Workshop), Paris, France, 26 March 2021. Role: speaker. Contribution: Supervised classification of curves via a combined use of functional data analysis and random forest.

2019

CLADAG 2019 (12th Scientific Meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group), Cassino, Italy, 11–13 September 2019. Role: invited speaker in the specialized session on Statistical analysis of data streams. Contribution: Unsupervised fuzzy classification for detecting similar functional objects.

2018

DYSES 2018 (Dynamics of Socio Economic Systems), Paris, France, 9–12 October 2018. Role: speaker. Contribution: Measuring impatience, inconsistency, and magnitude effect with functional data analysis.

IECMSA 2018 (7th International Eurasian Conference on Mathematical Sciences and Applications), Kyiv, Ukraine, 28–30 August 2018. Role: invited speaker. Contribution: Evaluating journals performance over time using functional instruments.

SIS 2018 (49th Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society), Palermo, Italy, 20–22 June 2018. Role: invited speaker in the solicited session on Dimensional reduction techniques for Big Data Analysis. Contribution: Clustering Data Streams via Functional Data Analysis: a Comparison between Hierarchical Clustering and K-means Approaches.

RTSS 2018 (5th International Conference Recent Trends in Social Sciences), Iași, Romania, 15–16 May 2018. Role: speaker. Contribution: Monitoring Workforce Diversity in Organizations over Time via Functional Data Analysis.

2017

IES 2017 (8th Scientific Conference on Innovation & Society, Statistical Methods for Evaluation and Quality), Naples, Italy, 6–7 September 2017. Role: invited speaker in the specialized session on Statistical Methods for school students' assessment. Contribution: Functional ANOVA for Evaluating Cognitive Abilities and School Performance.

RTSS 2017 (3rd International Conference on Recent Trends in Social Sciences: Social Work), Seville, Spain, 13–16 March 2017. Role: speaker. Contribution: Recent Advances in Measuring Heterogeneity in Organizational Studies.

2016

ICBAER 2016 (International Conference on Business Administration and Economics, People. Ideas. Experience), Resita, Romania, 14–15 October 2016. Role: speaker. Contribution: Measuring diversity in organizations: review and recent advances.

FSMOA 2016 (Fuzzy Sets, Multivalued Operations, and Applications to Social Sciences), University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, 8–10 September 2016. Role: speaker. Contribution: Fuzzy regression for the study of business phenomena.

FSMOA 2016 (Fuzzy Sets, Multivalued Operations, and Applications to Social Sciences), University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, 8–10 September 2016. Role: speaker. Contribution: Possible approaches to fuzzy probability.

2015

RTSS 2015 (3rd International Conference on Recent Trends in Social Sciences: Qualitative Theories and Quantitative Models), Brno, Czech Republic, 15–17 October 2015. Role: speaker. Contribution: Analysis of the Inequalities of Abruzzo's Provinces Through the Indices of Deprivation.

RTSS 2015 (3rd International Conference on Recent Trends in Social Sciences: Qualitative Theories and Quantitative Models), Brno, Czech Republic, 15–17 October 2015. Role: speaker. Contribution: Diversity in the Social and Economic Science: Review and Application.

RTSS 2015 (3rd International Conference on Recent Trends in Social Sciences: Qualitative Theories and Quantitative Models), Brno, Czech Republic, 15–17 October 2015. Role: speaker. Contribution: Fuzzy Regression Models with Fuzzy Random Variables: Application in the Social and Economic Fields.

CLADAG 2015 (10th Scientific Meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group), Santa Margherita di Pula, Cagliari, Italy, 8–10 October 2015. Role: speaker. Contribution: Inference on Functional Biodiversity Tools.

FSMOA 2015 (2nd International Conference on Fuzzy Sets, Multivalued Operations and Applications to Social Sciences), Chieti, Italy, 15–17 September 2015. Role: speaker. Contribution: Fuzzy Conditional Probability.

ISI 2015 (60th World Statistics Congress), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 26–30 July 2015. Role: invited speaker in the specialized session on High frequency processing and streaming data analysis. Contribution: Recent advances in functional data stream classification.

HSST 2015 (International Conference Humanities and Social Sciences Today: Classical and Contemporary Issues), Iași, Romania, 7–11 May 2015. Role: invited speaker. Contribution: Corporate board diversity: A functional approach for its assessment.

HSST 2015 (International Conference Humanities and Social Sciences Today: Classical and Contemporary Issues), Iași, Romania, 7–11 May 2015. Role: speaker. Contribution: Fuzzy probability: alternative approaches and applications to Social Sciences.

2014

IMFE 2014 (International Conference on Marine and Freshwater Environments), St. John's, Canada, 6–8 August 2014. Role: speaker. Contribution: Parametric Functional Analysis of Variance for Fish Biodiversity.

RoAIMS 2014 (ROMAI Applied and Industrial Mathematics Symposium), Iași, Romania, 12–15 June 2014. Role: speaker. Contribution: Fuzzy Regression.

SIS 2014 (47th Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society), Cagliari, Italy, 11–13 June 2014. Role: poster presenter. Contribution: Bell Shaped Fuzzy Numbers Associated with the Normal Curve.

SIS 2014 (47th Scientific Meeting of the Italian Statistical Society), Cagliari, Italy, 11–13 June 2014. Role: poster presenter. Contribution: Functional Analysis of Variance for Parametric Functional Data.

MATHESIS 2014 (L'educazione matematica oggi: test, gare e interrelazioni con altre discipline), Ottaviano, Italy, 28 February 2014. Role: speaker. Contribution: Probability and Statistics Tests: a Critical Analysis.

2013

MATHESIS 2013 (La matematica nel primo ciclo: aspetti didattici, sociologici e interdisciplinari), Chieti, Italy, 4–6 April 2013. Role: speaker. Contribution: The Olympic Games for the Promotion of Statistical Reasoning and new Technologies in the School.

2012

RTSS 2012 (1st International Conference on Recent Trends in Social Sciences: Qualitative Theories and Quantitative Models), Iași, Romania, 23–25 September 2012. Role: speaker. Contribution: Fuzzy Regression in Social Sciences.

ICEKU 2012 (1st International Conference on Econometrics Methods and Applications), Sanandaj, Iran, 25–27 August 2012. Role: speaker. Contribution: Social Science Research: Fuzzy Sets and Econometric Models.

MATHESIS 2012 (Innovazioni didattiche e formazione degli insegnanti. Ruolo dell'università e della Mathesis), Chieti, Italy, 24 May 2012. Role: speaker. Contribution: Statistical Games and Educational Innovation.

International Conferences as Co-author

2026

SISMEC 2026 Annual Conference, Patient-Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) nell'era dell'Intelligenza Artificiale: ruolo e sfide del biostatistico nel valorizzare la voce dei pazienti, Parma, Italy, 24–25 September 2026. Role: co-author. Contribution: Augmented Functional Random Forests per la classificazione interpretabile di traiettorie biomediche funzionali.

RBFC 2026 (Sixth Research in Behavioral Finance Conference), Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, 18–19 September 2026. Role: co-author. Contribution: When Impatience Looks Like Impulsivity: Deliberation and Rational Inattention in Intertemporal Financial Choices.

ASA 2026 Annual Conference, Statistical Intelligence and Artificial Intelligence: From Data to Aware Decisions, University of Teramo, Teramo, Italy, 16–18 September 2026. Role: co-author. Contribution: Gender-Based Intertemporal Choice Profiling: A Supervised Machine Learning Framework Using Augmented Functional Forests.

AMASES 50 (50th Annual Conference of the Italian Association for Mathematics Applied to Social and Economic Sciences), Rome, Italy, 3–5 September 2026. Role: co-author. Contribution: Generalizing the Concept of Decreasing Impatience in Intertemporal Choice. Consequences over the Stabilization of the Associated Discount Function.

8th MBC2 Workshop – Models and Learning in Clustering and Classification, University of Catania, Catania, Italy, 26–28 August 2026. Role: co-author. Contribution: Topological Clustering in Delphi Studies: A Network-Based Approach to Dimensionality Reduction.

CARMA 2026 (8th International Conference on Advanced Research Methods and Analytics), Valencia, Spain, 1–3 July 2026. Role: co-author. Contribution: Functional Modeling of Subjective Time: Analyzing Inconsistent Decisions via Functional Time Distortion.

DySES 2026 (Dynamics of Socio-Economic Systems in the Age of Artificial Intelligence), Naples, Italy, 18–20 June 2026. Role: co-author. Contribution: Functional Modeling of Subjective Time: Analyzing Inconsistent Decisions via Functional Time Distortion.

FIMBSS 2026 (First International Meeting on Behavioral Social Sciences), University of Almería, Almería, Spain, 23–24 April 2026. Role: co-author. Contribution: Functional Modeling of Subjective Time: Analyzing Inconsistent Decisions via Functional Time Distortion.

FIMBSS 2026 (First International Meeting on Behavioral Social Sciences), University of Almería, Almería, Spain, 23–24 April 2026. Role: co-author. Contribution: Cognitive Costs and Time Discounting: A Unified Model of Impulsivity and Impatience.

MAF 2026 (Conference on Mathematical and Statistical Methods for Actuarial Sciences and Finance), Barcelona, Spain, 8–10 April 2026. Role: co-author. Contribution: Characterizing the Stability of Intertemporal Preferences through Certain Properties of Discount Functions.

2025

IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science, ICSDS 2025, Seville, Spain, 15 December 2025. Role: co-author. Contribution: Functional Ensemble Methods with Independent Features for Time to Event Data.

XLIX AMASES Conference (Annual Meeting of the Association for Mathematics Applied to Social and Economic Sciences), Florence, Italy, 11–13 September 2025. Role: co-author. Contribution: Stability of Intertemporal Preferences: Its Relationship with the Shape and Consistency of Discount Functions.

DSSR 2025 (5th International Conference on Data Science and Social Research), Pescara, Italy, 2025. Role: co-author. Contribution: Fuzzy Centrality in Social Networks Analysis.

IES 2025 (Innovation & Society: Statistics and Data Science for Evaluation and Quality), Bressanone, Italy, 2025. Role: co-author. Contribution: Functional Clustering for Survival Curves.

IES 2025 (Innovation & Society: Statistics and Data Science for Evaluation and Quality), Bressanone, Italy, 2025. Role: co-author. Contribution: Enhancing Survival Learning from Time-to-Event Data with Functional Random Survival Forest.

IES 2025 (Innovation & Society: Statistics and Data Science for Evaluation and Quality), Bressanone, Italy, 2025. Role: co-author. Contribution: Augmented Functional Random Forests: Robust Classifier Construction and Conditional Importance of Functional Principal Components.

IV International Workshop on Advances in Functional Data Analysis, Madrid, Spain, 2025. Role: co-author. Contribution: Advancing Survival Prediction with Functional Random Survival Forests for Time-to-Event Data.

2024

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

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

SDS 2024 (Statistics and Data Science Conference), Palermo, Italy, 2024. Role: co-author. Contribution: Random Survival Forest for Censored Functional Data.

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

DSSR 2024 (4th International Conference on Data Science & Social Research), Naples, Italy, 25–27 March 2024. Role: co-author in the invited session on Data analysis methods for complex data with applications to business, economics, and the Environment. Contribution: Statistical Learning Methods for Early Detection of Corporate Crises.

AMASES 2024 (XLVIII Annual Meeting of the Association for Mathematics Applied to Social and Economic Sciences), Ischia, Italy, 2024. Role: co-author. Contribution: Studying the Discount Function Through Differential Geometry: Stable and Unstable Intertemporal Preferences.

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

SoIPa 2024 (XXXIII Congresso Nazionale della Società Italiana di Parassitologia), Padova, Italy, 2024. Role: co-author. Contribution: A Ten-Year Retrospective Study of Gastrointestinal Nematode Infections in Sheep Farms in Southern Italy.

DYSES 2024, Bucharest, Romania, 2024. Role: co-author. Contribution: Justifying the Discounting Model Associated to the Jellinek Curve Through Time Deformations.

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

2023

CMStatistics 2023 (16th International Conference of the ERCIM WG on Computational and Methodological Statistics), Berlin, Germany, 16–18 December 2023. Role: co-author of the invited talk in the invited session on Statistical methods for sustainable practices. Contribution: Random Survival Forest for Functional Data.

EFC 2023 (First Elsevier Finance Conference at FGV EBAPE), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 16–18 November 2023. Role: co-author. Contribution: Relationship Between BITs and Discount Functions through FDA.

DYSES 2023 (Dynamics of Socio-economic systems), Almería, Spain, 17–19 October 2023. Role: co-author of the invited talk.

IES 2023 (Statistical Methods for Evaluation and Quality: Techniques, Technologies, and Trends), Pescara, Italy, 30 August–1 September 2023. Role: co-author of the invited talk. Contribution: Supervised learning from high-dimensional data through dynamic updating of functional classification rules.

TIES 2023 Regional Meeting, Ottawa, Canada, 24–29 July 2023. Role: co-author of the invited talk. Contribution: Functional Design Based Estimation of Diversity Profiles.

SIS 2023 (Statistical Learning, Sustainability and Impact Evaluation), Ancona, Italy, 21–23 June 2023. Role: co-author of the invited talk. Contribution: Dynamic learning from data streams through the combined use of probability density functions and simplicial functional principal component analysis.

SDS 2023 (Statistics for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence), University of Pavia, Italy, 27–28 April 2023. Role: co-author of the invited talk. Contribution: A new supervised classification technique based on the joint use of K-nearest neighbors and weighted K-means to discover new patterns in the data.

2022

SEIO 2022 (39th Spanish Conference on Statistics and Operations Research), Granada, Spain, 7–10 June 2022. Role: co-author of the invited talk. Contribution: Dimensionality reduction of high-dimensional data via probability density functions: an application to the forecasting problem.

2019

CLADAG 2019 (12th Scientific Meeting of the Classification and Data Analysis Group), Cassino, Italy, 11–13 September 2019. Role: co-author of the invited talk in the specialized session on Clustering of spatial data. Contribution: Biodiversity spatial clustering.

ISI 2019 (62nd ISI World Statistics Congress), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 18–23 August 2019. Role: co-author of the invited talk in the specialized session on Environmental Statistics and Climate Change. Contribution: Inspecting ecological communities' structure via functional data analysis.

2018

COMPSTAT 2018, 2nd Satellite CRoNoS Workshop on Functional Data Analysis, Iași, Romania, 31 August–2 September 2018. Role: co-author of the invited talk in the specialized session on Recent advances on functional data analysis and applications. Contribution: Data stream reduction via functional time series analysis.

COMPSTAT 2018, 2nd Satellite CRoNoS Workshop on Functional Data Analysis, Iași, Romania, 31 August–2 September 2018. Role: co-author of the invited talk in the specialized session on New challenges in FDA applications. Contribution: Functional tools for increasing the accuracy of biodiversity assessment.

TIES 2018 (28th Annual Conference of The International Environmetrics Society), Guanajuato, Mexico, 16–21 July 2018. Role: co-author of the invited talk in the specialized session on Models for Ecology. Contribution: Functional tools to increase the accuracy of biodiversity assessment.

2017

ENBIS 2017 (17th Annual Conference of the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics), Naples, Italy, 9–14 September 2017. Role: co-author of the invited talk. Contribution: Clustering Functional Data Stream: Theory and Application for the Analysis of Web Data.

13th Workshop on Family Firms Management Research – Creativity and Family Businesses, Bilbao, Spain, 25–27 May 2017. Role: co-author. Contribution: Capital Structure Determinants in Family Firms: An Empirical Analysis in Contex of Crisis.

2015

International Workshop on Decision Making in Social and Economic Science, Benevento, Italy, 7 October 2015. Role: co-author. Contribution: Subjective Fuzzy Probability: applications to economic and social science.

2013

International Workshop on Algebraic And Analytic Number Theory And Their Applications, Costanza, Romania, 23–24 May 2013. Role: co-author. Contribution: Finite Geometric Spaces, Steiner Systems and Cooperative Games.

2012

WCLTA 2012 (3rd World Conference on Learning, Teaching & Administration), Bruxelles, Belgium, 25–28 October 2012. Role: co-author. Contribution: Best Practices to Improve the Learning of Statistics: The Case of the National Olympics of Statistic in Italy.

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.