j-ISBA board members

Francesca Panero. Section Chair

Francesca is an Assistant Professor in Statistics at Sapienza University of Rome (Italy) and Visiting Fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She mostly works on Bayesian nonparametric models for complex networks, humanitarian applications and disclosure risk assessment. She is also exploring fair machine learning models and algorithms. Francesca obtained her Ph.D. in 2022 at the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Prof. Caron and Prof. Rousseau. During her PhD years, she interned at the Dalle Molle Institute for AI (Lugano, Switzerland) and at J.P. Morgan (London). From 2022 to 2024 she was Assistant Professor in Data Science at the London School of Economics. You can find more about her website.

Francesco Gaffi. Section Chair-Elect

Francesco is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Bergamo (Italy). Previously, he was a Postdoctoral Associate in Statistics at the Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland, College Park, and the Robert and Sara Lumpkins Postdoctoral Fellow in Statistics at the Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, University of Notre Dame, mentored by Lizhen Lin. He has obtained his Ph.D. in 2023 at Bocconi University, under the supervision of Antonio Lijoi and Igor Pruenster. Francesco’s research interests include topics in Bayesian nonparametrics and network data analysis. You can find more about him on his webpage.

Alessandro Zito. Treasurer

Alessandro is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health (Boston, MA), working with Jeffrey W. Miller and Giovanni Parmigiani. He has obtained his Ph.D. at Duke University, under the supervision of David B. Dunson. He is also a research affiliate at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute of Boston. His research interests are centered around developing Bayesian methodologies to assist practitioners draw scientific conclusions, especially in applications related to cancer genomics and ecology. His work is mostly related to non-negative matrix factorization models, species sampling priors, and general Bayesian nonparametric models. You can find more about Alessandro at his webpage.

Nicolas Bianco. Program Chair

Nicolas is a postdoctoral researcher at the Scientific Computing Center at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, working with Nadja Klein. After obtaining his PhD in Statistics from the University of Padova in 2023 under the supervision of Mauro Bernardi, he spent one year as a postdoctoral researcher at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, where he worked with Lorenzo Cappello. His research focuses on Bayesian statistics for the analysis of spatiotemporal data, with particular emphasis on variable selection, change-point detection, and scalable inference. He is also interested in applications in environmental and climate sciences. You can find out more about Nicolas on his webpage.

Emma Landry. Secretary

Emma is PhD candidate in biostatistics at the University of California, Los Angeles, working under the supervision of Donatello Telesca. Her research centers on the development of Bayesian methodology for complex biomedical data, in particular in the areas of functional data analysis and analysis of non-Euclidean objects. She is interested in applications to neuroimaging, with a focus on the study of neurodevelopmental disorders. You can find out more about Emma on her webpage.