"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








About (the academic) me


"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.







News and highlights

[2024/02/21] I joined the Department of Statistics at the University of Padua as a senior Assistant Professor (RtdB) [2023/01/11] One of my postdoc projects, the Horseshoe mixture model, got accepted on AOAS!
[2022/09/15] Our paper on Generalized Ratios ID estimation got accepted for publication on Scientific Reports!
[2022/03/01] Our collaborative paper got accepted for publication on Appetite!
[2022/03/01] I joined the Department of Statistics at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore - Milan as an Assistant Professor (RtdA)



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Contacts

Email: francesco (dot) denti (at) unipd (dot) it
Office: Room 151, Via Santa Caterina, Padua Department of Statistics of University of Padua