About me
I am an Assistant Professor of Statistical Science (RTD-B, SECS-S/01) at the department of Economics, Management and Statistics (DEMS) of University of Milano-Bicocca. I currently live in Milan, Italy.
I am a member of the BayesLab at the Bocconi Institute for Data Science and Analytics (BIDSA), and the MIDAS Complex Data Modeling Research Network.
My curriculum vitae is available here. A complete list of publications is available here.
Research interests: applied Bayesian modeling; Bayesian clustering; Bayesian nonparametrics; computational statistics; generalized Bayes; functional data analysis; mixture models; species sampling models.
E-mail: tommaso.rigon@unimib.it
News and awards
[2024] I am part of the j-ISBA Peer Mentoring, which is meant to provide advice on academic matters. [Program Info]
[2024] Mitchell Prize 2023 for the paper “Extended Stochastic Block Models with Application to Criminal Networks”. International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA). [Award]
[2024] I attended BAYSM 2024 and the ISBA world meeting 2024, between June and July. ISBA is the main international conference for Bayesian statistics. BAYSM is organized by j-ISBA and is devoted to young researchers.
[2024] I have been to Madagascar for the annual meeting of LIFEPLAN (a planetary inventory of life), funded by an ERC Synergy Grant focusing on global biodiversity research. [Photos]
[2024] Daniele Durante was awarded an ERC Starting Grant for the project NEMESIS, focusing on the sociogenesis of criminal networks. I am very happy to be involved in the research group!
[2022] National Scientific Qualification for Associate Professor in Statistics (13/D1).
[2021] Young Talents Award 2021. University of Milano-Bicocca, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. [Award]
[2020] Savage Award 2020 (Theory and Methods). American Statistical Association (ASA), International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA). [Award] [News]
