"The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who
are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull.
He is the owner of a large
personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates
visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore,
professore dottore Eco, what a library you have ! How many of these
books have you read?” and the others - a very small minority - who get
the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a
research tool.
Read books are far less valuable than unread
ones."
The Black Swan - N. N. Taleb
"Cammino in mezzo agli altri, tutti più o meno uguali
E canto
nella testa un poco di Brunori SAS
Faccio parte anch’io di
quest’aurea mediocritas.
E vado ricercando medie senza varianza, un
pò di stabilità
Male non fa"
Romastino - Translation
I am an Assistant Professor (RtdB) at the Department of Statistics of University of Padua.
Previously, I held the role of Assistant Professor (RtdA) at the Department of
Statistics of Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Milan.
Prior to that, I spent two years as a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Department of Statistics of Univerisity
of California - Irvine (UCI), working under the supervision of
Professor Babak
Shahbaba.
I obtained a Ph.D. in Statistics at University of Milan - Bicocca and Università della Svizzera italiana (joint program, awarded with honors) working with Professor Antonietta Mira and Professor Michele Guindani.
I am interested in Bayesian mixtures, Bayesian nonparametrics, model-based clustering, shrinkage priors, and dimensionality reduction.
[2024/02/21] I joined the Department of Statistics at the University of Padua as a senior Assistant Professor (RtdB)
Email: francesco (dot) denti (at) unipd (dot)
it
Office: Room 151, Via Cesare Battisti 241, Padua
Department of Statistics of
University of Padua