Silvia Montagna

Silvia Montagna

Assistant Professor in Statistics

Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia

Biography

I am Assistant Professor in Statistics (RTD-B) at the Dipartimento di Economia Marco Biagi, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia (Unimore). Prior to joining Unimore, I was Assistant Professor in Statistics at Università degli Studi di Torino (2018-2023), lecturer in Statistics in the School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Kent (2017), and post-doctoral research fellow in Statistics at the Department of Statistics, University of Warwick (2014-2016). I obtained a PhD in Statistical Science from Duke University in November 2013.

My research focuses primarily on the development of Bayesian models for the analysis of functional and longitudinal data. In particular, I am interested in methods to extract the low-dimensional structure in the data (latent factors, principal components, clustering), and flexible parametric and non-parametric modelling (bases expansions, Gaussian/spatial processes). Some highlight application areas are neuroimaging, sport analytics, -omics data, and causal inference.

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Interests
  • Bayesian statistics
  • Functional data analysis
  • Latent factor modelling
  • High-dimensional applications
Education
  • PhD in Statistical Science, 2013

    Duke University

  • MA in Economics, 2009

    Università degli Studi di Torino

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Assistant Professor in Statistics (RTD-B)
Sep 2023 – Present Modena, Italy
 
 
 
 
 
Assistant Professor in Statistics
Dec 2017 – Aug 2023 Torino, Italy
 
 
 
 
 
Lecturer
School of Mathematics, Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Kent
Jan 2017 – Dec 2017 Canterbury, UK
 
 
 
 
 
Post-doctoral research fellow
Department of Statistics, University of Warwick
Jan 2014 – Dec 2016 Coventry, UK

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