Cecilia Balocchi
Lecturer in Statistics
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Cecilia Balocchi
Lecturer in Statistics
About
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.
News
- August 2022: I am currently on maternity leave with tentative return date in February 2023 and until then I will check my emails irregularly.
- 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
- June 2022: I was invited to give a talk on "Bayesian Nonparametric Analysis of Spatial Variation with Discontinuities" at Oxford Computational Statistics and Machine Learning (OxCSML) seminar.
- April 2022: I gave a talk on "A Bayesian Nonparametric Model for Partitions with Ordered Clusters" at the Bayesian Nonparametric Networking Event (Nicosia, Cyprus).