Universita Degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

The University of Naples Federico II was established in 1224 through an Imperial Charter of Frederick the II Hohenstaufen. Nowadays the teaching offer covers courses in all academic disciplines and counts some 150 graduate level degrees. The research activities, carried on by more than three thousand people in the academic staff, are spread on all the areas and there are many excellences internationally recognized. Among the many field the statistical one is well founded with several research groups; the academic roots of the members of the Statistics, Technology, Analysis of Data (STAD) group, involved into the present call, are grounded into the Computational Statistics and Applications PhD school. Currently their teaching activities are at the crossroad between economics and engineering curricula and some research interests are directed trough this very peculiar interface. The experience of the group ranges from the field of official statistics to the most advanced methods for knowledge discovery in very large data sources. STAD people are involved in field research about design and deployment of statistical monitoring and assessment analysis, the development of methodologies and tools aiming at decision support, machine learning and data warehousing for ICT.

Web Site:

http://www.unina.it/unina-international/about-us/federico-ll-today

TEAM MEMBERS

Roberta Siciliano

Principal Investigator

Prof. Roberta Siciliano received Laurea degree in Economics and a PhD in Computational Statistics and applications, both from University of Naples Federico II; she is full professor of Statistics and recently joined the Industrial Engineering departement; currently she teaches basic to advanced statistics from bachelor degree to PhD students. Her research activity is in the field of Multivariate Data Analysis and Statistical Learning, Data Mining, Inference and Prediction.

Michele Staiano

Co-Principal Investigator

Dr. Eng. Michele Staiano holds a MSc in Aeronautical Engineering and a PhD in Computational Statistics and application; he is a researcher of Industrial Engineering department at Federico II and has served as lecturer on probability, statistics and reliability fundamentals for engineering, master and PhD students; in 2015 he started the deployment of a statistical protocol for MuSIASEM during a visiting semester at UAB.

Massimo Aria

Prof. Massimo Aria holds a MSc in Economics and a PhD in Computational Statistics and applications, both from University of Naples Federico II; he teaches basic to applied statistics from bachelor to master degree students; currently is associate professor and was a consultant in ICT before joning the Statistics and Economics department at Federico II.

Antonio D’Ambrosio

Ass. Prof. Antonio D’Ambrosio holds a MSc in Economics and a PhD in Computational Statistics and applications, both from University of Naples Federico II; he is an assistant professor of the Statistics and Economics department at Federico II; he teaches basic to applied statistics from bachelor to master degree students.

Carmela Iorio

Dr. Carmela Iorio holds a MSc in Finance and a PhD in Statistics both from University of Naples Federico II. She is an assistant professor of the Industrial Engineering department at Federico II; she teaches basic to applied statistics from bachelor to master degree students.

Giuseppe Pandolfo

Dr. Giuseppe Pandolfo holds a MSc in Economics and a PhD in Economics and Statistics both from University of Cassino and Southern Lazio, where he also held a postdoc position at the Department of Economics and Law. He is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering of University of Naples Federico II. His research interest are in nonparametric statistics, directional statistics and classification.

Alfonso Piscitelli

Alfonso Piscitelli is senior researcher in Social Statistics at the Department of Political Science of Federico II University of Naples, Italy. He received a PhD in Statistics from the Federico II University of Naples. From September 2012 to January 2013 he was a visiting researcher at the Division of Methodology and Statistics in the Institute of Psycology of Leiden University (NL). His research interests include Data Mining, Missing data theory, Data Fusion, Performance and Satisfaction analysis. He participated to several research projects and also to several evaluation programs of public policies in the European Social Fund. He has published in books and technical journals, including Italian Journal of Applied Statistics and Quality & Quantity.