Cecilia Balocchi
Lecturer in Statistics
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Cecilia Balocchi
Lecturer in Statistics
I am a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Statistics at the School of Mathematics, University of Edinburgh.
Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher in Statistics at the University of Torino, working with Stefano Favaro. I am also a member of the “de Castro” Statistics Initiative at Collegio Carlo Alberto.
I received my PhD in Statistics from the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Ed George and Shane Jensen.
Previously, I was a postdoctoral researcher in Statistics at the University of Torino, working with Stefano Favaro. I am also a member of the “de Castro” Statistics Initiative at Collegio Carlo Alberto.
I received my PhD in Statistics from the University of Pennsylvania under the supervision of Ed George and Shane Jensen.
My research interests include Bayesian nonparametrics and hierarchical modeling, clustering, Bayesian regression trees and spatial methods.
- December 2025: I'll be at CMStat 2025, presenting the WASABI paper, with a new cool application (slides here).
- May 2023: My paper "Crime in Philadelphia: Bayesian Clustering with Particle Optimization" won the JASA Reproducibility Award!
- July 2022: My dissertation in "Bayesian Nonparametric Analysis of Spatial Variation with Discontinuities" was awarded the 2021 Savage Award in Applied Methodology! You can check out the talk where I summarise my work here: https://tinyurl.com/2s45z5ye