BIDSA Bocconi Institute for Data Science and Analytics

People

Arnstein Aassve

Isadora Antoniano Villalobos

Pierpaolo Battigalli

Francesco C. Billari

Emanuele Borgonovo

Federico Camerlenghi

Simone Cerreia-Vioglio

Anatoli Colicev

Francesco Corielli

Daniele Durante

Christoph Feinauer

Mattia Fochesato

Tommaso Fornaciari

Alfonso Gambardella

Miles Gietzmann

Joseph-Simon Görlach

Rebecca Graziani

Francesco Grossetti

Thomas Le Barbanchon

Carlo Lucibello

Fabio Maccheroni

Marco Maffezzoli

Alberto Manconi

Massimilano Marcellino

Massimo Marinacci

Alessia Melegaro

Salvatore Nunnari

Marco Ottaviani

Omiros Papaspiliopoulos

Torben Pedersen

Silvio Petriconi

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Arnstein Aassve

Fellow

Arnstein Aassve is Professor in Demography at Bocconi University. Research interests include institutional and cultural Demography, big data in historical perspective, NLP and sentiment analysis.
Jérôme Adda

Fellow

Jérôme Adda is a Professor in Economics at Bocconi University. His research focuses on health and labor economics.
Mario Amore

Fellow

Mario Amore is Associate Professor at the Department of Management and Technology at Bocconi University. His research interests are in the field of corporate governance and family firms. Furthermore, I am interested in the interactions between finance and innovation, and in the behavioral aspects of corporate decision-making.
Isadora Antoniano Villalobos

Affiliate

Isadora Antoniano Villalobos is Assistant Professor at Università Ca' Foscari. Her research is mainly focused on Bayesian nonparametric modelling and inference for complex dependence structures and, recently, extreme value analysis.
Carlo Baldassi

Affiliate

Carlo Baldassi is Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Bocconi University. His research interests focus on the application of Statistical Mechanics to machine learning and more generally to large-scale inference and optimization problems.
Pierpaolo Battigalli

Fellow

Professor of Microeconomics and Game Theory, and current Head of the Department of Decision Sciences. Director of the PhD in Economics until 2010 and Dean of the PhD School until 2019. He has taught at the Politecnico di Milano, the University of Princeton and the European University Institute. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a founding member of the Game Theory Society. He is Associate Editor of Econometrica, Games and Economic Behavior, International Journal of Game Theory, Texts in Logic and Games.
Francesco C. Billari

Fellow

Francesco Billari is Professor of Demography and Dean of the Faculty at Bocconi, he worked at the University of Oxford (Department of Sociology, where he also served as Head of Department) and Nuffield College (where he was a Professorial Fellow), and at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Head of the Independent Research Group on the Demography of Early Adulthood).
Marco Bonetti

Fellow

Marco Bonetti has a MSc and PhD degrees in Statistics at the University of Connecticut following his undergraduate studies in Statistics and Economics (University of Rome). He spent 8 years as postdoctoral fellow and assistant professor of Biostatistics at Harvard, with joint position at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Professor of Statistics since 2012. Research interests: statistical methods and applications in medicine, problems in survival analysis, clinical trials, screening, and more. Currently Director at the Dondena Research Center (Bocconi).
Emanuele Borgonovo

Fellow

Emanuele Borgonovo is Professor of Applied Mathematics at Bocconi University. His research is mainly focused on the use of quantitative methods for decision support, with applications in Decision Analysis, Risk Analysis and Business Analytics.
Ariela Caglio

Fellow

Ariela Caglio is an Associate Professor of Management Accounting and Control at the Accounting Department of Bocconi University. Her research interests primarily rest in performance measurement and control systems for inter-firm networks, the evolution of the accounting profession, integrated reporting and compensation design. She is particularly fascinated by studying fashion firms and the soccer industry.
Federico Camerlenghi

Affiliate

Federico Camerlenghi is an Assistant professor in Statistics at University of Milano - Bicocca. His research interests focus on the study of nonparametric statistical methodologies for species sampling problems, disclosure risk assessment and survival analysis.
Simone Cerreia-Vioglio

Fellow

Simone Cerreia-Vioglio is an Associate Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences. He earned his Laurea degree in Finance from Bocconi University in 2005 and his PhD in Economics from Columbia University in 2010. He has joined Bocconi in 2010 and he is an IGIER fellow. His research interests are Economic Theory, Finance, and Applied Mathematics. In 2015, he has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) starting grant
Patrick Choi

Affiliate

Patrick Choi is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Bocconi University. He holds a BS in Computer Science, a BS and a MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, a PhD in Marketing from Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests lie in the markets for digital information and media products, and in the interaction among distribution channels. His research applications include entertainment, retail, and technology industries.
Anatoli Colicev

Affiliate

Anatoli Colicev is Assistant Professor at the Department of Marketing of Bocconi University. His research interests include digital marketing, marketing strategy, marketing-finance interface, social media analytics and the interface between macro and micro economics. He has earned my Ph.D. in Decision Sciences and Statistics from ESSEC Business School (2016) and hold a master’s degree in research (ESSEC) and economics (University of Cagliari).
Francesco Corielli

Fellow

Francesco Corielli is an associate professor in the dept of Finance of Bocconi University. His main interests are Econometrics and in particular statistical analysis of observational data and the study of partial differential equations involved in derivative pricing.
Angelo Ditillo

Fellow

Angelo Ditillo is Associate Professor of Management Accounting and Control at the Accounting Department of Bocconi University. His main research interests are related to the management of creative and innovative teams and organizations, the performance measurement and control systems of inter-organizational networks and the management control of professional service firms and private equity funds.
Daniele Durante

Affiliate

Daniele Durante is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the Department of Decision Sciences of the Bocconi University. His research is characterized by an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of Bayesian methodology, modern applications, and statistical machine learning to develop flexible, interpretable and computationally tractable probabilistic representations of complex and high-dimensional datasets.
Nilanjana Dutt

Fellow

Nilanjana Dutt is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at Bocconi University's Department of Management and Technology. Her research primarily focuses on understanding how firms select and use different bodies of knowledge to improve innovative performance.
Zachary Estes

Fellow

Zachary Estes is Associate Professor at the Department of Marketing of Bocconi University. His research interests are in the area of consumer cognition, with particular focus on perception, sensory processes, and language, and how they influence brand and product evaluations and choice.
Carlo Favero

Fellow

Carlo Favero is Deutsche Bank Chair in Quantitative Finance and Asset Pricing at Bocconi University and a member of BIDSA’s Scientific Committee. His research interests include econometric modelling of bond and stock prices, applied econometrics, monetary and fiscal policy and time-series models for macroeconomics and finance.
Christoph Feinauer

Affiliate

Christoph Feinauer is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Bocconi University. He works in machine learning and high performance computing applications, e.g. to biological problems, medical research and natural language processing.
Mattia Fochesato

Affiliate

Mattia Fochesato is Assistant Professor of Economic History at Bocconi University. His research focuses on the long run determinants of income and wealth distribution across different world regions. In particular, he is currently working on the impact of climatic and agricultural changes on global wealth inequality in prehistory and the effects of plague epidemics on the late medieval and early modern European labor markets.
Tommaso Fornaciari

Affiliate

Tommaso Fornaciari is a post-doc fellow researcher and Teaching Assistant at Bocconi University. He works together with Dirk Hovy in the field of Natural Language Processes (NLP) and manages the activities of the DMI Unit.
Andrea Fosfuri

Fellow

Andrea Fosfuri is Professor of Management at Bocconi University and a member of CRIOS and BIDSA. His research explores the factors that explain heterogeneity across firms in the strategies for appropriating the returns of innovation.
Alfonso Gambardella

Fellow

Alfonso Gambardella is Professor of Mangement at Bocconi University and a member of BIDSA’s Scientific Committee. He studies firm strategy, particularly technology strategy and the impact of innovation on industry structures.
Miles Gietzmann

Fellow

Head of the Department of Accounting, University Bocconi, and responsible for the BIDSA Blockchain Initiative. Has previously held full time positions at the London School of Economics, University of Bristol and City University. Held visiting positions at the GSB University of Chicago and University of Michigan. His reasearch areas include corporate disclosure, securities regulation, strategic cost management, M&A.
Joseph-Simon Görlach

Affiliate

Joseph-Simon Görlach is Assistant Professor at Bocconi University’s Department of Economics. His research interests focus on empirical microeconomics, in particular on the estimation of dynamic models of international migration.
Rebecca Graziani

Affiliate

Rebecca Graziani is Assistant Professor in Statistics at Bocconi University. Her research interests focus on Bayesian statistics and computational methods.
Francesco Grossetti

Affiliate

Francesco Grossetti is Assistant Professor at Accounting Department of Bocconi University. His research areas cover the fields of Accounting and Finance as well as Marketing and Management.
He is involved in several research projects in which he is in charge of the development of all the computational and statistical methodology.
Sungtak Hong

Affiliate

Sungtak Hong is Assistant Professor of Marketing at Bocconi University. His research interest lies in empirical models of behaviours of firms and consumers in domains of firms' product decisions and consumers' multicategory choices. Methodologically, he applies microeconometrics and Bayesian statistical methods.
Dirk Hovy

Fellow

Dirk Hovy is an Associate Professor in the Marketing Department, with a background in Computer Science. His research focuses on natural language processing and computational social science, specifically, the interaction of demographic factors and language, and their consequences for performance, fairness, and personalization of statistical models. He is also interested in deep learning, graphical models, and ethical questions of bias and algorithmic fairness in machine learning.
Hugo Lavenant

Affiliate

Hugo Lavenant is Assistant Professor in mathematical analysis at Bocconi University. His research focuses on optimal transport at the theoretical level as well as for the analysis of biological data.
Thomas Le Barbanchon

Fellow

Thomas Le Barbanchon is Associate Professor in Economics at Bocconi University. His research interests focus on labor economics, public finance and econometrics.
Antonio Lijoi

Fellow

Antonio Lijoi is Professor of Statistics at the Bocconi University. His research interests focus on Bayesian nonparametrics, mixture modeling, survival analysis, predictive inference and species sampling problems.
Carlo Lucibello

Affiliate

Carlo Lucibello is Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Bocconi University. His
research focus is on the theoretical investigation of problems in signal processing,
discrete optimization and machine learning, along with the design of related algorithms.
Fabio Maccheroni

Fellow

Fabio Maccheroni is a Professor of Decision Sciences at Bocconi (Milano) and a fellow of IGIER. He works on Decision Theory, Game Theory, and Mathematical Finance. More recently, he started working on topics in Computational Neuroeconomics and Discrete Choice Analysis.
Marco Maffezzoli

Fellow

Marco Maffezzoli is an Associate Professor of Economics at Bocconi University. His research interests spanned from International Real Business Cycle models to the intersection between neoclassical trade theory and modern dynamic macroeconomics. Currently, he is interested in heterogeneous agents models and their applications, both from a theoretical and a computational point of view. Broadly speaking, he is also interested in developing innovative tools in Python.
Alberto Manconi

Fellow

Alberto Manconi is Associate Professor of Finance at Bocconi University. His research interests revolve around asset management and institutional investors. As part of a long-term research agenda, in recent work he has assembled a large-scale database on management team diversity, and used it to develop a trading strategy on the U.S. stock market.
Massimilano Marcellino

Fellow

Massimilano Marcellino is Professor of Econometrics at Bocconi University and a member of BIDSA’s Scientific Committee. He has published over eighty academic articles in leading international journals on econometrics, economic statistics, forecasting and applied macroeconomics, his main areas of research and teaching.
Massimo Marinacci

Fellow

Massimo Marinacci is Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences of Bocconi University. Since 2011, he holds the AXA-Bocconi Chair in Risk.
Alessia Melegaro

Fellow

Alessia Melegaro is an Associate Professor in Demography and Social Statistics at Bocconi University. Her research interests focus on the use of mathematical modeling and statistical analysis techniques to evaluate public health intervention programs. In particular, she has been working extensively on infectious disease dynamics and vaccination strategies both in high and low-income countries.
Luca Molteni

Affiliate

Luca Molteni is Assistant Professor at the Decision Sciences Department of Bocconi University. His main research interests relate to advanced data analysis applied to managerial decision making, recently with a specific focus on predictive analytics based on big data sources.
Sungkyun Moon

Affiliate

Sungkyun Moon is Assistant Professor of Marketing at Bocconi University. His research interests are mainly to study the issues related to marketing strategies of firms and link firms’ marketing decisions to firm performance. In particular, he is interested in examining the financial impact of marketing decisions, the implication of marketing information disclosed by a firm, and the role of marketing executives in a firm.
Pietro Muliere

Fellow

Pietro Muliere is Professor of Statistics at Bocconi University. His research interests include Bayesian nonparametric statistics, distribution theory, stochastic orderings and measures of income inequality.
Salvatore Nunnari

Fellow

Salvatore Nunnari is Associate Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Bocconi Experimental Laboratory for the Social Sciences. His research interests are Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Microeconomic Theory and Political Economy.
Marco Ottaviani

Fellow

Marco Ottaviani is Professor of Economics at Bocconi University. His research interests focus on information economics, persuasion, and organizational design.
Simone Padoan

Fellow

Simone Padoan is Associate Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at Bocconi University. His main research interests focus on the Extreme-Values Theory and spatio-temporal statistics. The leading applications concern the statistical analysis of space, time and space-time phenomena in environmental sciences, and the study of risk analysis for high-dimensional problems in financial, acturial and environmental sciences.
Omiros Papaspiliopoulos

Fellow

Omiros is a Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at Bocconi.
His research lies at the intersection of Statistics, Machine Learning, Stochastic Processes and Applied Mathematics, with particular expertise on Bayesian computational methods. He has also lead research and consulting activities in a number of applied Data Science projects.
Torben Pedersen

Fellow

Torben Pedersen is Professor in International Business at Bocconi University. His research interests focus on strategy, digitalization, and internationalization.
Silvio Petriconi

Affiliate

Silvio Petriconi is an assistant professor of finance at Bocconi. His research interests are banking, information economics, and networks.
Sonia Petrone

Fellow

Sonia Petrone is Professor in Statistics, and Director of the PhD in Statistics, at Bocconi University. Her research interests focus on statistical learning and rediction, Bayesian theory and methods, Bayesian nonparametrics and statistical machine learning, methods for complex dependence structures and latent variable models, dynamic and evolutionary systems, random graphs.
Raffaella Piccarreta

Fellow

Raffaella Piccarreta is Associate Professor in Statistics at Bocconi University. Her research areas include multivariate data analysis, classification and regression trees, genetic algorithms, sequence analysis (categorical time series), and dissimilarity data.
Paolo Pin

Fellow

Paolo Pin is Professor at Università di Siena. He works on the economic analysis of social networks, with a multidisciplinary approach that includes game theory, experiments that are run in the lab, in the field and online, and data analysis.
Igor Prünster

Scientific Director

Igor Prünster is Professor of Statistics at Bocconi University and director of BIDSA. His research is mainly focused on Bayesian nonparametric statistics and includes applications to mixture modeling, survival analysis and species sampling problems in genomics.
Gabriel Pündrich

Affiliate

Gabriel Pündrich is Assistant Professor at Warrington College of Business, University of Florida.
His research areas cover the fields of merger and acquisitions, compensation, project financing and auditing.
Gaia Rubera

Fellow

Gaia Rubera is Professor of Marketing at Bocconi University. Her research interest focus on innovation, social media marketing, marketing-finance interface, and topic modeling.
Julien Sauvagnat

Fellow

Julien Sauvagnat is an Associate Professor of Finance at Bocconi University. He is a applied micro-economist whose research interests cover the fields of finance, networks and trade.
Giuseppe Savaré

Fellow

Giuseppe Savaré is professor of Mathematical Analysis at Bocconi University.
His research focuses on problems of calculus of variations and partial differential equations, optimal transport, gradient flows and rate-independent evolutions, analysis in metric spaces.
Bruno Scarpa

Fellow

Bruno Scarpa is Professor of Statistics and Data mining at the University of Padova. His research interests focus on statistical models for big data, text mining, Bayesian nonparametrics, skew-symmetric distributions, business statistics and statistical methods for marketing research.
Jonathan Shi

Affiliate

Jonathan holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physics from the University of Washington, and completed a Ph.D. program in Computer Science at Cornell University, under the guidance of David Steurer. He focused on approximation algorithms, semidefinite programming, multivariate polynomial optimization, unsupervised learning, and quantum information theory. He is now working with Luca Trevisan on spectral algorithms on hypergraphs and tensors which may involve pseudo-random structures and statistical mechanics techniques.
Marco Tortoriello

Fellow

Marco Tortoriello is a professor of strategy and organization at Bocconi University. His research focuses on mechanisms and returns to network positions and structures with a specific focus on the generation of innovation.
Luca Trevisan

Fellow

Luca Trevisan is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and of Mathematics at U.C. Berkeley and a senior scientist at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. He is from Rome, where he studied at the Sapienza University of Rome, advised by Pierluigi Crescenzi. He has also been a post-doc at MIT (with theTheory of Computing Group) and at DIMACS, an assistant professor at Columbia University and a professor at Stanford.
Fernando Vega-Redondo

Fellow

Fernando Vega-Redondo is Professor at the Department of Decision Sciences of Bocconi University. His research interests include Game Theory, Evolutionary Theory, Learning and bounded rationality and Social networks.
Giacomo Zanella

Affiliate

Giacomo Zanella is an Assistant Professor in Statistics at Bocconi University, Department of Decision Sciences. He received his PhD at the University of Warwick in 2015. His research at BIDSA is focused on Probability, Statistics and Machine Learning, with particular emphasis on Bayesian computation and Monte Carlo methods.
Riccardo Zecchina

Fellow

Riccardo is a professor in the department of Decision Sciences at Bocconi University. His research interests include statistical physics, machine learning, computational neuroscience and computational biology, distributed algorithms for optimization and constraint satisfaction problems and statistical inference.

Arnstein Aassve

Fellow

Arnstein Aassve is Professor in Demography at Bocconi University. Research interests include institutional and cultural Demography, big data in historical perspective, NLP and sentiment analysis.
Jérôme Adda

Fellow

Jérôme Adda is a Professor in Economics at Bocconi University. His research focuses on health and labor economics.
Mario Amore

Fellow

Mario Amore is Associate Professor at the Department of Management and Technology at Bocconi University. His research interests are in the field of corporate governance and family firms. Furthermore, I am interested in the interactions between finance and innovation, and in the behavioral aspects of corporate decision-making.
Isadora Antoniano Villalobos

Affiliate

Isadora Antoniano Villalobos is Assistant Professor at Università Ca' Foscari. Her research is mainly focused on Bayesian nonparametric modelling and inference for complex dependence structures and, recently, extreme value analysis.
Carlo Baldassi

Affiliate

Carlo Baldassi is Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Bocconi University. His research interests focus on the application of Statistical Mechanics to machine learning and more generally to large-scale inference and optimization problems.
Pierpaolo Battigalli

Fellow

Professor of Microeconomics and Game Theory, and current Head of the Department of Decision Sciences. Director of the PhD in Economics until 2010 and Dean of the PhD School until 2019. He has taught at the Politecnico di Milano, the University of Princeton and the European University Institute. He is a Fellow of the Econometric Society and a founding member of the Game Theory Society. He is Associate Editor of Econometrica, Games and Economic Behavior, International Journal of Game Theory, Texts in Logic and Games.
Francesco C. Billari

Fellow

Francesco Billari is Professor of Demography and Dean of the Faculty at Bocconi, he worked at the University of Oxford (Department of Sociology, where he also served as Head of Department) and Nuffield College (where he was a Professorial Fellow), and at the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (Head of the Independent Research Group on the Demography of Early Adulthood).
Marco Bonetti

Fellow

Marco Bonetti has a MSc and PhD degrees in Statistics at the University of Connecticut following his undergraduate studies in Statistics and Economics (University of Rome). He spent 8 years as postdoctoral fellow and assistant professor of Biostatistics at Harvard, with joint position at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Professor of Statistics since 2012. Research interests: statistical methods and applications in medicine, problems in survival analysis, clinical trials, screening, and more. Currently Director at the Dondena Research Center (Bocconi).
Emanuele Borgonovo

Fellow

Emanuele Borgonovo is Professor of Applied Mathematics at Bocconi University. His research is mainly focused on the use of quantitative methods for decision support, with applications in Decision Analysis, Risk Analysis and Business Analytics.
Ariela Caglio

Fellow

Ariela Caglio is an Associate Professor of Management Accounting and Control at the Accounting Department of Bocconi University. Her research interests primarily rest in performance measurement and control systems for inter-firm networks, the evolution of the accounting profession, integrated reporting and compensation design. She is particularly fascinated by studying fashion firms and the soccer industry.
Federico Camerlenghi

Affiliate

Federico Camerlenghi is an Assistant professor in Statistics at University of Milano - Bicocca. His research interests focus on the study of nonparametric statistical methodologies for species sampling problems, disclosure risk assessment and survival analysis.
Simone Cerreia-Vioglio

Fellow

Simone Cerreia-Vioglio is an Associate Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences. He earned his Laurea degree in Finance from Bocconi University in 2005 and his PhD in Economics from Columbia University in 2010. He has joined Bocconi in 2010 and he is an IGIER fellow. His research interests are Economic Theory, Finance, and Applied Mathematics. In 2015, he has been awarded a European Research Council (ERC) starting grant
Patrick Choi

Affiliate

Patrick Choi is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at Bocconi University. He holds a BS in Computer Science, a BS and a MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering, a PhD in Marketing from Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests lie in the markets for digital information and media products, and in the interaction among distribution channels. His research applications include entertainment, retail, and technology industries.
Anatoli Colicev

Affiliate

Anatoli Colicev is Assistant Professor at the Department of Marketing of Bocconi University. His research interests include digital marketing, marketing strategy, marketing-finance interface, social media analytics and the interface between macro and micro economics. He has earned my Ph.D. in Decision Sciences and Statistics from ESSEC Business School (2016) and hold a master’s degree in research (ESSEC) and economics (University of Cagliari).
Francesco Corielli

Fellow

Francesco Corielli is an associate professor in the dept of Finance of Bocconi University. His main interests are Econometrics and in particular statistical analysis of observational data and the study of partial differential equations involved in derivative pricing.
Angelo Ditillo

Fellow

Angelo Ditillo is Associate Professor of Management Accounting and Control at the Accounting Department of Bocconi University. His main research interests are related to the management of creative and innovative teams and organizations, the performance measurement and control systems of inter-organizational networks and the management control of professional service firms and private equity funds.
Daniele Durante

Affiliate

Daniele Durante is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the Department of Decision Sciences of the Bocconi University. His research is characterized by an interdisciplinary approach at the intersection of Bayesian methodology, modern applications, and statistical machine learning to develop flexible, interpretable and computationally tractable probabilistic representations of complex and high-dimensional datasets.
Nilanjana Dutt

Fellow

Nilanjana Dutt is an Assistant Professor of Strategy at Bocconi University's Department of Management and Technology. Her research primarily focuses on understanding how firms select and use different bodies of knowledge to improve innovative performance.
Zachary Estes

Fellow

Zachary Estes is Associate Professor at the Department of Marketing of Bocconi University. His research interests are in the area of consumer cognition, with particular focus on perception, sensory processes, and language, and how they influence brand and product evaluations and choice.
Carlo Favero

Fellow

Carlo Favero is Deutsche Bank Chair in Quantitative Finance and Asset Pricing at Bocconi University and a member of BIDSA’s Scientific Committee. His research interests include econometric modelling of bond and stock prices, applied econometrics, monetary and fiscal policy and time-series models for macroeconomics and finance.
Christoph Feinauer

Affiliate

Christoph Feinauer is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Bocconi University. He works in machine learning and high performance computing applications, e.g. to biological problems, medical research and natural language processing.
Mattia Fochesato

Affiliate

Mattia Fochesato is Assistant Professor of Economic History at Bocconi University. His research focuses on the long run determinants of income and wealth distribution across different world regions. In particular, he is currently working on the impact of climatic and agricultural changes on global wealth inequality in prehistory and the effects of plague epidemics on the late medieval and early modern European labor markets.
Tommaso Fornaciari

Affiliate

Tommaso Fornaciari is a post-doc fellow researcher and Teaching Assistant at Bocconi University. He works together with Dirk Hovy in the field of Natural Language Processes (NLP) and manages the activities of the DMI Unit.
Andrea Fosfuri

Fellow

Andrea Fosfuri is Professor of Management at Bocconi University and a member of CRIOS and BIDSA. His research explores the factors that explain heterogeneity across firms in the strategies for appropriating the returns of innovation.
Alfonso Gambardella

Fellow

Alfonso Gambardella is Professor of Mangement at Bocconi University and a member of BIDSA’s Scientific Committee. He studies firm strategy, particularly technology strategy and the impact of innovation on industry structures.
Miles Gietzmann

Fellow

Head of the Department of Accounting, University Bocconi, and responsible for the BIDSA Blockchain Initiative. Has previously held full time positions at the London School of Economics, University of Bristol and City University. Held visiting positions at the GSB University of Chicago and University of Michigan. His reasearch areas include corporate disclosure, securities regulation, strategic cost management, M&A.
Joseph-Simon Görlach

Affiliate

Joseph-Simon Görlach is Assistant Professor at Bocconi University’s Department of Economics. His research interests focus on empirical microeconomics, in particular on the estimation of dynamic models of international migration.
Rebecca Graziani

Affiliate

Rebecca Graziani is Assistant Professor in Statistics at Bocconi University. Her research interests focus on Bayesian statistics and computational methods.
Francesco Grossetti

Affiliate

Francesco Grossetti is Assistant Professor at Accounting Department of Bocconi University. His research areas cover the fields of Accounting and Finance as well as Marketing and Management.
He is involved in several research projects in which he is in charge of the development of all the computational and statistical methodology.
Sungtak Hong

Affiliate

Sungtak Hong is Assistant Professor of Marketing at Bocconi University. His research interest lies in empirical models of behaviours of firms and consumers in domains of firms' product decisions and consumers' multicategory choices. Methodologically, he applies microeconometrics and Bayesian statistical methods.
Dirk Hovy

Fellow

Dirk Hovy is an Associate Professor in the Marketing Department, with a background in Computer Science. His research focuses on natural language processing and computational social science, specifically, the interaction of demographic factors and language, and their consequences for performance, fairness, and personalization of statistical models. He is also interested in deep learning, graphical models, and ethical questions of bias and algorithmic fairness in machine learning.
Hugo Lavenant

Affiliate

Hugo Lavenant is Assistant Professor in mathematical analysis at Bocconi University. His research focuses on optimal transport at the theoretical level as well as for the analysis of biological data.
Thomas Le Barbanchon

Fellow

Thomas Le Barbanchon is Associate Professor in Economics at Bocconi University. His research interests focus on labor economics, public finance and econometrics.
Antonio Lijoi

Fellow

Antonio Lijoi is Professor of Statistics at the Bocconi University. His research interests focus on Bayesian nonparametrics, mixture modeling, survival analysis, predictive inference and species sampling problems.
Carlo Lucibello

Affiliate

Carlo Lucibello is Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Bocconi University. His
research focus is on the theoretical investigation of problems in signal processing,
discrete optimization and machine learning, along with the design of related algorithms.
Fabio Maccheroni

Fellow

Fabio Maccheroni is a Professor of Decision Sciences at Bocconi (Milano) and a fellow of IGIER. He works on Decision Theory, Game Theory, and Mathematical Finance. More recently, he started working on topics in Computational Neuroeconomics and Discrete Choice Analysis.
Marco Maffezzoli

Fellow

Marco Maffezzoli is an Associate Professor of Economics at Bocconi University. His research interests spanned from International Real Business Cycle models to the intersection between neoclassical trade theory and modern dynamic macroeconomics. Currently, he is interested in heterogeneous agents models and their applications, both from a theoretical and a computational point of view. Broadly speaking, he is also interested in developing innovative tools in Python.
Alberto Manconi

Fellow

Alberto Manconi is Associate Professor of Finance at Bocconi University. His research interests revolve around asset management and institutional investors. As part of a long-term research agenda, in recent work he has assembled a large-scale database on management team diversity, and used it to develop a trading strategy on the U.S. stock market.
Massimilano Marcellino

Fellow

Massimilano Marcellino is Professor of Econometrics at Bocconi University and a member of BIDSA’s Scientific Committee. He has published over eighty academic articles in leading international journals on econometrics, economic statistics, forecasting and applied macroeconomics, his main areas of research and teaching.
Massimo Marinacci

Fellow

Massimo Marinacci is Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences of Bocconi University. Since 2011, he holds the AXA-Bocconi Chair in Risk.
Alessia Melegaro

Fellow

Alessia Melegaro is an Associate Professor in Demography and Social Statistics at Bocconi University. Her research interests focus on the use of mathematical modeling and statistical analysis techniques to evaluate public health intervention programs. In particular, she has been working extensively on infectious disease dynamics and vaccination strategies both in high and low-income countries.
Luca Molteni

Affiliate

Luca Molteni is Assistant Professor at the Decision Sciences Department of Bocconi University. His main research interests relate to advanced data analysis applied to managerial decision making, recently with a specific focus on predictive analytics based on big data sources.
Sungkyun Moon

Affiliate

Sungkyun Moon is Assistant Professor of Marketing at Bocconi University. His research interests are mainly to study the issues related to marketing strategies of firms and link firms’ marketing decisions to firm performance. In particular, he is interested in examining the financial impact of marketing decisions, the implication of marketing information disclosed by a firm, and the role of marketing executives in a firm.
Pietro Muliere

Fellow

Pietro Muliere is Professor of Statistics at Bocconi University. His research interests include Bayesian nonparametric statistics, distribution theory, stochastic orderings and measures of income inequality.
Salvatore Nunnari

Fellow

Salvatore Nunnari is Associate Professor of Economics at Bocconi University, where he also serves as Associate Director of the Bocconi Experimental Laboratory for the Social Sciences. His research interests are Experimental Economics, Behavioral Economics, Microeconomic Theory and Political Economy.
Marco Ottaviani

Fellow

Marco Ottaviani is Professor of Economics at Bocconi University. His research interests focus on information economics, persuasion, and organizational design.
Simone Padoan

Fellow

Simone Padoan is Associate Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at Bocconi University. His main research interests focus on the Extreme-Values Theory and spatio-temporal statistics. The leading applications concern the statistical analysis of space, time and space-time phenomena in environmental sciences, and the study of risk analysis for high-dimensional problems in financial, acturial and environmental sciences.
Omiros Papaspiliopoulos

Fellow

Omiros is a Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at Bocconi.
His research lies at the intersection of Statistics, Machine Learning, Stochastic Processes and Applied Mathematics, with particular expertise on Bayesian computational methods. He has also lead research and consulting activities in a number of applied Data Science projects.
Torben Pedersen

Fellow

Torben Pedersen is Professor in International Business at Bocconi University. His research interests focus on strategy, digitalization, and internationalization.
Silvio Petriconi

Affiliate

Silvio Petriconi is an assistant professor of finance at Bocconi. His research interests are banking, information economics, and networks.
Sonia Petrone

Fellow

Sonia Petrone is Professor in Statistics, and Director of the PhD in Statistics, at Bocconi University. Her research interests focus on statistical learning and rediction, Bayesian theory and methods, Bayesian nonparametrics and statistical machine learning, methods for complex dependence structures and latent variable models, dynamic and evolutionary systems, random graphs.
Raffaella Piccarreta

Fellow

Raffaella Piccarreta is Associate Professor in Statistics at Bocconi University. Her research areas include multivariate data analysis, classification and regression trees, genetic algorithms, sequence analysis (categorical time series), and dissimilarity data.
Paolo Pin

Fellow

Paolo Pin is Professor at Università di Siena. He works on the economic analysis of social networks, with a multidisciplinary approach that includes game theory, experiments that are run in the lab, in the field and online, and data analysis.
Igor Prünster

Scientific Director

Igor Prünster is Professor of Statistics at Bocconi University and director of BIDSA. His research is mainly focused on Bayesian nonparametric statistics and includes applications to mixture modeling, survival analysis and species sampling problems in genomics.
Gabriel Pündrich

Affiliate

Gabriel Pündrich is Assistant Professor at Warrington College of Business, University of Florida.
His research areas cover the fields of merger and acquisitions, compensation, project financing and auditing.
Gaia Rubera

Fellow

Gaia Rubera is Professor of Marketing at Bocconi University. Her research interest focus on innovation, social media marketing, marketing-finance interface, and topic modeling.
Julien Sauvagnat

Fellow

Julien Sauvagnat is an Associate Professor of Finance at Bocconi University. He is a applied micro-economist whose research interests cover the fields of finance, networks and trade.
Giuseppe Savaré

Fellow

Giuseppe Savaré is professor of Mathematical Analysis at Bocconi University.
His research focuses on problems of calculus of variations and partial differential equations, optimal transport, gradient flows and rate-independent evolutions, analysis in metric spaces.
Bruno Scarpa

Fellow

Bruno Scarpa is Professor of Statistics and Data mining at the University of Padova. His research interests focus on statistical models for big data, text mining, Bayesian nonparametrics, skew-symmetric distributions, business statistics and statistical methods for marketing research.
Jonathan Shi

Affiliate

Jonathan holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, and Physics from the University of Washington, and completed a Ph.D. program in Computer Science at Cornell University, under the guidance of David Steurer. He focused on approximation algorithms, semidefinite programming, multivariate polynomial optimization, unsupervised learning, and quantum information theory. He is now working with Luca Trevisan on spectral algorithms on hypergraphs and tensors which may involve pseudo-random structures and statistical mechanics techniques.
Marco Tortoriello

Fellow

Marco Tortoriello is a professor of strategy and organization at Bocconi University. His research focuses on mechanisms and returns to network positions and structures with a specific focus on the generation of innovation.
Luca Trevisan

Fellow

Luca Trevisan is a professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and of Mathematics at U.C. Berkeley and a senior scientist at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. He is from Rome, where he studied at the Sapienza University of Rome, advised by Pierluigi Crescenzi. He has also been a post-doc at MIT (with theTheory of Computing Group) and at DIMACS, an assistant professor at Columbia University and a professor at Stanford.
Fernando Vega-Redondo

Fellow

Fernando Vega-Redondo is Professor at the Department of Decision Sciences of Bocconi University. His research interests include Game Theory, Evolutionary Theory, Learning and bounded rationality and Social networks.
Giacomo Zanella

Affiliate

Giacomo Zanella is an Assistant Professor in Statistics at Bocconi University, Department of Decision Sciences. He received his PhD at the University of Warwick in 2015. His research at BIDSA is focused on Probability, Statistics and Machine Learning, with particular emphasis on Bayesian computation and Monte Carlo methods.
Riccardo Zecchina

Fellow

Riccardo is a professor in the department of Decision Sciences at Bocconi University. His research interests include statistical physics, machine learning, computational neuroscience and computational biology, distributed algorithms for optimization and constraint satisfaction problems and statistical inference.