Tommaso Rigon

Academic awards

• Best Ph.D. student in Statistics at Bocconi University in the Academic Year 2016/2017 (09/2017)

Data competitions

• Best objective prediction at Stat under the Stars 4, Palermo, Italy (06/2018)
• Winner of the Young-CLADAG data contest, Milan, Italy (09/2017)
• Winner of the Bocconi summer school data competition, Como, Italy (07/2017)

Travel award

• Travel award (400£) for O’Bayes 2019 conference, Warwick, UK (06/2019)
• Travel award (accommodation) for the BNP12 conference, Oxford, UK (06/2019)
• ISBA travel award (250$) for ISBA 2018 world meeting, Edinburgh, UK (06/2018)
• ISBA travel award (700$) for the O’Bayes 2017 conference, Austin, Texas (12/2017)

Articles in refereed journals

1. Lijoi, A., Prünster, I. and Rigon, T. (2020). The Pitman–Yor multinomial process for mixture modeling. Biometrika. In press. [Link].

2. Durante, D. and Rigon, T. (2019). Conditionally conjugate mean-field variational Bayes for logistic models, Statistical Science 34(3), 472–485. [Link] [GitHub Repository].

3. Rigon, T., Durante, D. and Torelli, N. (2019). Bayesian semiparametric modelling of contraceptive behavior in India via sequential logistic regressions, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A 182(1), 225–247. [Link] [GitHub Repository].

4. Durante, D., Canale, A. and Rigon, T. (2019). A nested expectation-maximization algorithm for latent class models with covariates, Statistics and Probability Letters 146, 97–103. [Link] [GitHub Repository].

Submitted and working papers

1. Rigon, T. and Durante, D., (2020+), Tractable Bayesian density regression via logit stick-breaking priors, arXiv:1701.02969. Revision submitted. [ArXiv] [GitHub Repository].

2. Lijoi, A., Prünster, I. and Rigon, T. (2020+). Sampling hierarchies of discrete random structures. Revision submitted.

3. Rigon, T. (2020+). An enriched mixture model for functional clustering. Submitted. [ArXiv].

4. Lijoi, A., Prünster, I. and Rigon, T. (2020+). Finite-dimensional discrete random structures and Bayesian clustering. Submitted. [Link].

5. Rigon, T., Scarpa, B. and Petrone, S. (2020+). Enriched Pitman-Yor processes. Submitted. [ArXiV].

6. Legramanti, S., Rigon, T., Durante, D. (2020+). Bayesian testing for exogenous partition structures in stochastic block models. Submitted.

Refereed conference proceedings, publications in monographs, discussions

1. Aliverti, E., Paganin, S., Rigon, T. and Russo, M. (2019). A discussion on: ``Latent nested nonparametric priors’’ by Camerlenghi, F., Dunson, D.B., Lijoi, A., Prünster, I. and Rodriguez, A. in Bayesian Analysis 14(4), 1303–1356. [Link].

2. Rigon, T. (2018). Logit stick-breaking priors for partially exchangeable count data. In Book of Short Papers SIS 2018 (Abbruzzo, A., Piacentino, D., Chiodi, M., and Brentari, E., editors). ISBN: 9788891910233. [Link].

3. Caponera, A., Denti, F., Rigon, T., Sottosanti, A. and Gelfand, A. (2018). Hierarchical Spatio-Temporal Modeling of Resting State fMRI Data. In Studies in Neural Data Science (Canale, A., Durante, D., Paci, L., Scarpa, B., editors). [Link] [GitHub Repository].

Invited speaker

1. 2020-03-19. ABC in Grenoble. Grenoble, France.

2. 2020-01-10. Bayes Comp 2020. Gainesville, Florida, US.

3. 2019-12-28. The IISA International Conference on Statistics. Mumbai, India.

4. 2019-12-16. CMS Statistics 2019 (ERCIM 2019). London, UK.

5. 2018-12-15. CMS Statistics 2018 (ERCIM 2018). Pisa, Italy.

6. 2018-08-02. JSM 2018: Joint Statistical Meetings. Vancouver, Canada.

7. 2018-06-20. SIS 2018: 49th Scientific meeting of the Italian Statistical Society. University of Palermo. Palermo, Italy.

8. 2017-12-27. IISA 2017 Annual Conference. Hyderabad, India.

Contributed speaker

1. 2019-06-25. 12th International Conference on Bayesian Nonparametrics. University of Oxford. Oxford, UK.

2. 2018-07-02. BAYSM 2018: Bayesian Young Statisticians Meeting. University of Warwick. Warwick, UK.

3. 2018-03-07. YES IX: Scalable Statistics: on Accuracy and Computational Complexity. Eurandom, Metaforum. Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Poster sessions

1. 2019-06-30. O’Bayes 2019. University of Warwick. Warwick, UK.

2. 2018-06-26. 2018 ISBA World meeting. University of Edinburgh. Edinburgh, UK.

3. 2017-12-11. O’Bayes 2017. University of Texas, Austin. Austin, Texas.

4. 2017-06-10. Bayesian Inference in Stochastic Processes, BISP 10. Bocconi University. Milan, Italy.

5. 2017-02-01. SIS Bayes 2017. Sapienza University. Rome, Italy.

6. 2016-06-10. International Society for Bayesian Analysis, ISBA 2016. Cagliari University. Cagliari, Italy.

Events and summer schools

1. 2018-06-19. Stat under the stars 4. Palermo, Italy.

2. 2017-07. Bocconi Summer School in Advanced Statistics and Probability. Bocconi University. Como, Italy.

3. 2017-06. StartUp Research. Certosa di Pontignano, Italy.

4. 2017-06-30. Bayesian nonparametric, BNP 2017. CEREMADE, Université Paris Dauphine. Paris, France.

Referee service (alphabetical order)

Annals of Statistics; Bayesian Analysis; Biometrika; Computational Statistics & Data Analysis; Electronic Journal of Statistics; European Journal of Operational Research; IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems; Journal of Computational & Graphical Statistics; Journal of the American Statistical Association; Statistical Methods & Applications; Social Indicators Research; Statistics & Probability Letters

Positions in Academic Societies

• Elected member of the board (2016-2018) of the young group (ySIS) of the Italian Statistical Society

Organization of Scientific Events

• Organizer of the ySIS session think outside of the black-box: statistical reasoning in applications of the SIS2019: Smart Statistics for Smart Applications conference, Milan, Italy (06/2019)
• Member of the organising committee of Stats under the Stars 5, a hackathon for young Data Scientists, Milan, Italy (06/2019)
• Member of the local organising committee of the 10th international workshop on Bayesian inference in stochastic processes (BISP10), Milan, Italy (11/2017)