• EDUCATION
Laurea in Mathematics, April 2003 (University of Cagliari, Italy)
Thesis title:”Inferenza Bootstrap per le varianze di due popolazioni” (”Boot-
strap inference for the variances of two populations”); supervisor: Prof. Walter
Racugno.

Visiting predoctoral fellow of the Statistics Department at Northwestern
University, Evanston-Chicago (Illinois, USA), February 2005-April 2006; supervisor:
Prof. T.A.Severini.

PhD in Methodological Statistics, January 2007 (University ”La Sapienza” of Rome)
Thesis title:"Pseudo-likelihoods and Estimating Equations in the presence of incidental nuisance parameters";
supervisors: Prof. Thomas Alan Severini, Prof. Nicola Sartori; Prof. Laura Ventura.

    • WORKING EXPERIENCES
Academic year 2002-2003, Teaching Assistant (Faculty of Economics, Uni-
versity of Cagliari, undergraduate first course of Statistics).

   • WORKSHOPS
Quarto convegno su modelli complessi e metodi computazionali intensivi per
la stima e la previsione (S.Co.2005), Bressanone, September 15-17, 2005.
Oral presentation:”Estimating equations in models with stratum nuisance parameters”.

International Bayesian Meeting (Valencia 8), June 1-7, 2006.
Oral presentation (by D.Fraser): Two new procedures for developing model-based priors for default bayesian analysis
(joint with D.A.S. Fraser and N.Reid, U.of Toronto, and G.Y.Yi, U. of Waterloo, Canada)

Von Neumann Symposium on "Sparse Representation and High-Dimensional Geometry", Snowbird (Utah, USA), July 8-12, 2007.
Oral presentation: Interactome Inference by Reducing Dimensionality: Sparse Approximation and Decomposition of Protein-Protein Interaction Networks.
(with Enrico Capobianco)

4th Integrative Bioinformatics Workshop, Gent (Belgium), September 10-12, 2007.
Poster: Interactome Inference by Reducing Dimensionality.
(with Enrico Capobianco)

Organization of Biological Networks Workshop, IMA (Institute for Mathematics and its Applications), University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (Minnesota, USA), March 3-7, 2008.
Poster1: Multiscale Tour in Protein Interactomes.
Poster2: Multiscale Look at Protein Interactomes.
(both with Enrico Capobianco)

UPON2008 (Unsolved Problems On Noise), Lyon (France), June 2-6, 2008.
Poster: Mining Protein-Protein Interaction Networks: Denoising Effects.
(with Enrico capobianco)

    • LANGUAGE ABILITY
English, French.

    • COMPUTING EXPERIENCE
R, Matlab, Mathematica, Programming C++ and Java.

    • SCIENTIFIC INTERESTS
Estimating equations in models with stratum nuisance parameters and in
the multimodel inference; estimating equations and asymptotic methods for
a multidimensional parameter of interest, likelihood robustness.

Pseudo likelihoods, in particular integrated and marginal likelihood in the mixed effects models.
Model-based priors for a parameter of interest from pivotal quantities.

Statistics for bioinformatics.