Vice-Rector for Teaching and Quality and Professor of Statistics. Degree in Statistical and Demographic Sciences, Methodological Specialization, obtained on 30/5/1988 with a grade of 110/110 cum laude at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.

1989 (January-June). Training at the Centro Studi e Laboratori Telecommunications (CSELT, now Telecom Italia Lab) in Turin on Speech Signal Processing, Principles of Telecommunications and Stochastic Processes and Statistical Inference in Queuing Systems for Application to Traffic Engineering Problems in Telecommunications Networks.

1989 Neural Networks Course at the STET training school “Scuola Superiore Guglielmo Reiss Romoli” (L’Aquila).

1993 Traffic Engineering Course for Data Networks and New Services at the STET training school “Scuola Superiore Guglielmo Reiss Romoli” (L’Aquila). 1997 (January-May). Course Mathematical and statistical models of broadband network operation at the Mathematical Institute “Guido Castelnuovo” of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.

1999. Seminar series Large Deviations (Prof. Pier Luigi Conti, University of Bologna) at the Faculty of Statistics of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.

1999 Course Wavelets: basics and statistical applications (Prof. Brani Vidakovic, ISDS, Duke University) at the C.N.R. IAMI headquarters in Milan.

2003 Seminar series Asymptotic Theory (Prof. Pier Luigi Conti, Department of Statistics, Probability and Applied Statistics, University of Rome) at the Faculty of Statistics of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”.

Scientific research interests

Parametric and non-parametric statistical inference, even in the presence of incomplete information, with applications in technology, economics and social sciences.

Multivariate statistical methods in the exploratory and inferential field for the analysis of complex data structures, with applications in technology, economics and social sciences.

Participation in research groups

1993. Telecom Italia manager of the research project “Algorithms and prototypes of speech recognizers and synthesizers” with the aim of proposing and implementing mixed Markov/neural speech recognition systems. 1993. Telecom Italia manager of the research project “Evaluation of systems and services with speech interaction” with the aim of evaluating the performance of speech synthesis and recognition systems.

1996. Telecom Italia manager of the research project “Normativa e valutazione di apparati ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode) with the aim of defining the statistical functions of traffic control in ATM packet-switched systems.

1996-1997. Active member as Telecom Italia delegate of the research project JAMES (Joint ATM Experiments on European Services) funded by the European Commission for the subject “Traffic Modeling and Queuing Systems in ATM Networks” with the aim of studying traffic models for telecommunications systems. University Research (ex 60%). Participates in the research project “Common Component Analysis in Non-Stationary Economic Time Series: Models and Verifications”, year 1999.

National Research (ex 40%). Participates in the national research project “Stochastic models and simulation methods for the analysis of dependent data”, year 2000.

National Research CNR 2000 “Statistical models of time series for forecasting” (coordinated by Prof. Battaglia). In this context, participates in the research unit of the University of Molise “Recent developments in the statistical analysis of time series and panel data: methods and applications”.

National Research Cofin 2000 “Stochastic models and simulation methods for the analysis of dependent data. Participates in the research unit of the University of Molise “Statistical Inference for Random Processes with Degenerate Spectrum” (national coordinator Prof. Battaglia).

University Research 2001. Participates in the project “Statistical methods for the analysis of the economic cycle”.

National Research Cofin 2003 “Statistical methods and models for the forecasting of non-stationary and non-linear time series. Theoretical aspects and applications”. Participates in the research unit of the University of Molise “Statistical Methods for the Forecasting of Persistent Time Series” (national coordinator Prof. Battaglia).

National Research Cofin 2005. Participates in the research project “Problems of statistical analysis with incomplete information in official statistics and telecommunications” (national coordinator Prof. Conti).

National Research Cofin 2007. Participates in the research project “Dependence analysis in problems with partial information structure” (national coordinator Prof. Conti).

2003 Statistical methods and models for the forecasting of non-stationary and non-linear time series. Theoretical aspects and applications – COFIN 2003 MIUR

2005-2006 Problems of statistical analysis with incomplete information in official statistics and telecommunications – COFIN 2005 MIUR

2007-2008 Dependence analysis in problems with partial information structure – COFIN 2007 MIUR