"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
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.
[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)
Email: francesco (dot) denti (at) unipd (dot)
it
Office: Room 151, Via Santa Caterina, Padua