University of California Irvine 2019 - 2025 (expected)
Doctor of Philosophy - Statistics (GPA: 3.9)
Dissertation: Advances in Bayesian Nonparametric models for clustering
Advisors: Erik Sudderth and Michele Guindani
Bocconi University
Master of Science - Economic and Social Sciences (GPA: 4.0) 2016 - 2019
Research Thesis: A Sticky Hierarchical Pitman-Yor Process as a Prior for Hidden Markov Models
Advisor: Antonio Lijoi
Bachelor of Science - Economics and Management for Arts (GPA: 4.0) 2012 - 2015
University of California Irvine
Mentoring Excellence Program 2023
Division of Teaching Excellence and Innovation pedagogical training 2020
Ricci, F. Z., Sudderth, E., Lee, J., Houssain, S., Peters, M., Vannucci, M. & Guindani, M., (2024, in preparation) Bayesian temporal biclustering with applications to multi-subject neuroscience studies.
Ricci, F. Z., Guindani, M., & Sudderth, E. (2022). Thinned random measures for sparse graphs with overlapping communities. Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 35, 38162-38175. (link)
Dogucu, M., Demirci, S., Bendekgey, H., Ricci, F. Z., & Medina, C. M. (2024, submitted). Undergraduate data science education: Who has the microphone and what are they saying?. arXiv preprint arXiv:2403.03387. (link)
Ricci, F. Z., Medina, C. M., & Dogucu, M. (2024, under revision). Automated grading workflows for providing personalized feedback to open-ended data science assignments. arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.12924. (link)
Rummerfield, W., Ricci, F. Z., & Dogucu, M. (2021). Training graduate students to teach statistics and data science from a distance. In Proceedings of the IASE 2021 Satellite Conference. International Association for Statistical Education. (link)
Migliavada, R., Ricci, F. Z., Denti, F., Haghverdian, D., & Torri, L. (2022). Is purchasing of vegetable dishes affected by organic or local labels? Empirical evidence from a university canteen. Appetite, 173, 105995. (link)
Migliavada, R., Ricci, F. Z., & Torri, L. (2021). A three-year longitudinal study on the use of pre-ordering in a university canteen. Appetite, 163, 105203. (link)
Ricci, F. Z. R package tggp4networks: Modeling of network data with Thinned Generalized Gamma Process. GitHub, March 2023. (link)
Ricci, F. Z., Medina, C. & Dogucu, M. R package gradetools: Tools to Assist with Providing Grades and Personalized Feedback to Students. GitHub, March 2022. (link)
BayesBATS: a program for advancing Bayesian thinking in STEM education
Joint Statistical Meetings, Portland, Aug 2024 (forthcoming)
Bayesian temporal biclustering with applications to multi-subject neuroscience studies Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, Venice, Jul 2024 (forthcoming)
A Bayesian model for clustering subjects and measurements with application to brain imaging studies
Graduate student showcase of ASA section on Statistics in Imaging, Online, Apr 2024
A Bayesian model for clustering subjects and measurements in multivariate time-series
Colloquium of the Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, University of West Florida, Mar 2024.
Thinned random measures for sparse networks with overlapping communities
International Day of Women in Statistics and Data Science, 2022.
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Ricci, F.Z., Medina, C. Automate your grading workflow with gradetools: a grading assistant in RStudio
US Conference on Teaching Statistics (USCOTS). May 2023 (link)
Ricci, F.Z., Medina, C. & Dogucu, M. gradetools: a grading assistant in RStudio
Researchers of Statistics Education (RoSE) conference, online 2023 (link)
See you at the Posterior Line: teaching the Bayesian learning paradigm using a racing game
Bayesian Young Statisticians Meeting, Venice, Jun 2024 (forthcoming)
See you at the Posterior line: using an online racing game for introducing students to Bayesian data analysis
Electronic Conference On Teaching Statistics, Online, Jun 2024 (forthcoming)
Dynamic biclustering for multi-subject neuroscience studies
Biomedical Data Science Workshop, UC Irvine 2024 (Awarded best poster)
Modeling sparse graphs with overlapping communities via thinned random measures (link)
Objective Bayes Conference, Santa Cruz 2022
Meeting of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, Montreal 2022 (Awarded among best posters in Bayesian Nonparametric category)
Ricci, F.Z. & Dogucu, M. Assisted grading with Gradescope
Published on Data Pedagogy in 2021 (link)
Ricci, F.Z., Rummerfield, W. & Dogucu, M. Tips and Tools for Asynchronous Class Videos
Published on Data Pedagogy in 2021 (link)
Rummerfield, W., Ricci, F.Z. & Dogucu, M. Engaging Students in Remote Classes Published on Data Pedagogy in 2020 (link)
See you at the posterior line: a game-based activity for the Beta-Binomial model 2024
Stats 115 (Introduction to Bayesian Data Analysis) at UC Irvine
Writing your honors thesis 2024
Workshop for ICS honors-program undergraduates at UC Irvine (link)
Quarto for writing data analysis reports and academic articles 2023
Workshop for graduate students at UC Irvine (link)
Let’s get ready for the data analysis qualifying exam 2023
Workshop for graduate students at UC Irvine
Writing a data analysis report 2023
Workshop for the ISI-BUDS undergraduate research program at UC Irvine (link)
University of California Irvine 2020 - 2021
Evaluations
Stats 7 (Basics Statistics)
Stats 8 (Introduction to Biostatistics)
Stats 67 (Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Computer Science)
Stats 68 (Statistical Computing and Exploratory Data Analysis)
Founder and organizer of BrownBag seminar series 2021 - present
Seminars and workshops promoting graduate students’ professional development in the Statistics department at UC Irvine
UC Irvine Statistics First-Year Peer-Mentoring Program 2021 - present