Preserving the spirit of childood for life means preserving the curiosity of learning, the pleasure to understand, the desire to communicate.
(translated from Bruno Munari)
I am a fifth year PhD candidate in the Department of Statistics at the University of California Irvine. I am jointly advised by Erik Sudderth and Michele Guindani . My PhD research focuses on the development of Bayesian Nonparametric models for the analysis of network and multivariate time-series data.
I have also been working on projects related to statistics and data science education , with Mine Dogucu as my ‘honorary advisor’. I have created the R package gradetools to assist data science teachers with grading and providing feedback to their students.
On my way to finding Statistics, I studied Economics with a focus on causal inference and microeconometrics. Before that, my roots were grounded in humanistic and social subjects: in my BSc, I learned about Anthropology, Sociology and Contemporary Arts, as well as Law, Accounting and Management.
There are many things I enjoy doing, among which hiking and traveling, playing board games and cooking.