Service to the Profession

I am going to be Program-Chair Elect for the ASA Section on Bayesian Statistical Science ( SBSS) for the year 2025.

Since June 2021, I am Associate Editor of The New England Journal of Statistics in Data Science (Software section).

In 2021 and 2022, I have served as Treasurer of the j-ISBA, the junior section of the International Society of Bayesian Analysis ( ISBA). As an officer of the section, I have been contributing towards building more opportunities for early-career researchers, for example, designing the Blackwell-Rosenbluth award, or organizing dedicated sessions at scientific events.

I also been involved in the organizing and scientific committees of conferences of the Bayesian community including ISBA2021, BaYSM2021, and BayesComp2023.

Teaching & Mentoring

Becoming a teacher is one of the things that motivated me to pursue an academic career. During my time at University of Padova, I worked as a Tutor for the Department of Statistical Sciences, helping bachelor and master students with courses such as Introduction to real analysis and Advanced statistical inference.

As a Tutor, I also spent some time mentoring undergrads and volunteering at orientation days as well as at outreach research events. I continued this activity during my time at UC Berkeley, where I participated in the first edition of the Research mentorship program of the Statistics department.

Presentations

Invited Seminars

Brigham Young University - Department of Statistics
Computational methods for fast Bayesian model assessment via calibrated posterior p-values.
Seminar series. February 2024

The Ohio State University - Division of Biostatistics
A Bayesian framework for cancer screening and characterization
Seminar series. September 29, 2023.

University of Notre Dame - Dept. of Psychology
Bayesian IRT models in NIMBLE
Online - November 2022

University of Nottingham - Statistics and Probability seminar
Fast Bayesian model assessment via calibrated posterior predictive p-values
Online - April 2022

MIDAS & Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile
Centered Partition Processes: Informative Priors for Clustering.
Online - October 2021

UC Davis, Department of Statistics - Spring seminars series
Centered Partition Processes: Informative Priors for Clustering.
Online - May 2021

YoungStatS “One World webinar”
Developments in Bayesian Nonparametrics: Informative model-based clustering via Centered Partition Processes.
Online - April 2021

Bayesian Analysis - Discussion paper Webinar
Centered Partition Process: Informative Priors for Clustering.
Online - March 2021 - Recording available on YouTube

Invited talks

ISBA 2024
Informed Random Partition Models with Temporal Dependence
Venice, Italy - July 2024

CMStatistics 2023
A Bayesian framework for early cancer screening
Berline, Germany - December 2023

IDWSDS 2023
A Bayesian framework for early cancer screening.
j-ISBA organized session, International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science
Online - October 2023

SIS 2023
A Bayesian framework for early cancer screening.
Honorable mention for SIS 2023 Best Young Contribution Awards
Ancona, Italy - June 2023

NESS 2023
compareMCMCs: a package for running, managing, and comparing results from different MCMC packages
Boston - June 2023 - slides

Cladag 2021
Semiparametric IRT models for non-normal latent traits
Virtual Conference - September 2021

Bayesm:O 2020
Modeling health surveys via semiparametric IRT models.
Virtual Conference - November 2020

JSM 2020
j-ISBA invited session: Prior-Driven Cluster Allocation in Bayesian Mixture Models.
Virtual Conference - August 2020

SIS 2019
ySIS organized session: Domain knowledge based priors for clustering.
Milano, Italy - June 2019

SIS 2017
Modelling of complex network data for targeted marketing.
Firenze, Italy - June 2017

Contributed Talks

JSM 2022
A hierarchical Hidden Markov Model for cancer detection
Washington D.C., USA - August 2022

ISBA 2022
A hierarchical Hidden Markov Model for cancer detection
Montreal, Canada - July 2022

PDA Research Symposium
Statistics for early cancer detection.
Virtual Conference - February 2022

ISBA 2021
Flexible model assessment via approximate calibrated posterior predictive p-values.
Virtual Conference - June 2021

IBC 2018 Centering Exchangeable Partition Models.
Barcelona, Spain - July 2018

COBAL V
Bayesian modeling of networks in complex business intelligence problems.
Cimat, Guanajuato, Mexico - June 2017

Posters

ISBA 2021
Flexible model assessment via approximate calibrated posterior predictive p-values.
Virtual conference - June 2021 - poster

WiDS Cambridge 2021
Computational methods for Bayesian semiparametric Item Response Theory models.
Virtual conference - March 2021 - poster

Advanced Statistics for Physics Discovery
Informative Bayesian Clustering for Mixture Models.
Padova, Italy - September 2018

ISBA 2018
Centering Exchangeable Partition Models.
Edinburgh, United Kingdom - June 2018 - poster

ISBA 2016
Bayesian modeling of networks in complex business intelligence problems.
Forte Village Resort Convention Center Sardinia, Italy - June 2016 - poster