About Me
I am an Assistant Professor in Statistics at the department of Economics, Management and Statistics (DEMS) of University of Milano-Bicocca. I currently live in Milan, Italy.
I am also member of the Datalab at University of Milano-Bicocca, the BayesLab at the Bocconi Institute for Data Science and Analytics (BIDSA), the “de Castro” Statistics Initiative at Collegio Carlo Alberto, and the MIDAS Complex Data Modeling Research Network.
My complete curriculum vitae is available at this link. For more information about myself, you can also visit my GitHub and Google scholar profiles.
I am interested in Bayesian methods for the analysis of complex data, covering the theoretical, applicative, and computational aspects. I try to balance these three macro-areas in my research.
Teaching @ Unimib
Ph.D. courses
- Computational Statistics 2, Ph.D. in Economics, Statistics and Data Science, University of Milano-Bicocca.
B.Sc. courses (corsi laurea triennale)
- Statistics 1 (in Italian), CdL in Scienze Statistiche ed Economiche, University of Milano-Bicocca.
- R for the multivariate statistical analysis (in Italian), CdL in Scienze Statistiche ed Economiche, University of Milano-Bicocca.
B.Sc. & M.Sc. thesis (tesi triennale e magistrale)
- Information page (in Italian). Please read the information page if you are interested in working with me for your B.Sc. or M.Sc. thesis.
Other projects
- Covid-19 dashboard (in Italian). Covid-19 dashboard developed in collaboration with Matteo Pelagatti for the monitoring of the pandemic and the vaccination campaign in Italy.
Academic Positions
Department of Economics, Management and Statistics (DEMS), University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
I am currently an Assistant Professor (Ricercatore SECS-S/01, Legge 240/10 tipo A), at University of Milano-Bicocca.
Duke University
https://www.duke.eduPostdoctoral Associate
2020 - 2020
Research Associate
2019 - 2020
Department of Statistical Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA
I have been Research Associate and Postdoctoral Associate at Duke university. I worked with prof. Amy Herring and prof. David Dunson. My research focused on Bayesian methods for robust clustering, dimensionality reduction and sequential species discovery.
Fondazione "de Castro" and Collegio Carlo Alberto, Turin, Italy
I have been a Research affiliate at the Statistics initiative, Fondazione “de Castro” and Collegio Carlo Alberto.
Education
Bocconi University, Milan, Italy
I have been awarded a merit based 4-year fellowship. I worked under the joint supervision of prof. Antonio Lijoi and prof. Igor Prünster. Thesis title: Finite-dimensional nonparametric priors: theory and applications. Ph.D. awarded with honors.
Università degli studi di Padova, Padua, Italy
Final mark: 110/110 with laude. Advisor: Bruno Scarpa. Thesis title: Functional telecommunication data: a Bayesian nonparametric approach. I attended with honors the PhD courses: Theory and Methods of Inference, Statistical Models.
Università degli studi di Padova, Padua, Italy
Final mark: 110/110 with laude. Advisor: Nicola Sartori. Thesis title: Box-Cox transformation: an analysis based on the likelihood.
Awards
Academic awards
- Savage Award 2020 (Theory and Methods). American Statistical Association (ASA), International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA)
- 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 awards
- 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)
Publications
Articles in refereed journals
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Rigon, T. and Durante, D., (2021), Tractable Bayesian density regression via logit stick-breaking priors, Journal of Statistical Planning and inference 211, 131–142. [Link] [GitHub Repository].
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Legramanti, S., Rigon, T. and Durante, D. (2020). Bayesian testing for exogenous partition structures in stochastic block models. Sankhya A. In press. [Link] [GitHub repository]
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Lijoi, A., Prünster, I. and Rigon, T. (2020). Sampling hierarchies of discrete random structures. Statistics and Computing 30, 1591–1607. [Link]
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Lijoi, A., Prünster, I. and Rigon, T. (2020). The Pitman–Yor multinomial process for mixture modeling. Biometrika. 107(4), 891–906. [Link].
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Durante, D. and Rigon, T. (2019). Conditionally conjugate mean-field variational Bayes for logistic models, Statistical Science 34(3), 472–485. [Link] [GitHub Repository].
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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].
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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
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Favaro, S., Panero, F. and Rigon, T. (2021+). Bayesian nonparametric disclosure risk assessment. Submitted.
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Rigon, T. (2021+). An enriched mixture model for functional clustering. Submitted. [ArXiv].
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Lijoi, A., Prünster, I. and Rigon, T. (2021+). Finite-dimensional discrete random structures and Bayesian clustering. Submitted. [Link].
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Rigon, T., Scarpa, B. and Petrone, S. (2021+). Enriched Pitman-Yor processes. Submitted. [ArXiv].
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Rigon, T., Herring, A. H. and Dunson, D. B. (2021+). A generalized Bayes framework for probabilistic clustering. Submitted. [ArXiv].
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Legramanti, S., Rigon, T., Durante, D. and Dunson D. B. (2021+). Extended stochastic block models with application to criminal networks. Submitted. [ArXiv] [GitHub repository]
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Zito, A., Rigon, T., Ovaskainen, O., and Dunson, D. B. (2021+). Bayesian nonparametric modelling of sequential discoveries. Submitted. [ArXiv]
Refereed conference proceedings, publications in monographs, discussions
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Rigon, T., Aliverti, E., Russo, M., and Scarpa, B. (2021). A discussion on: ``Centered partition processes: Informative priors for clustering’’ Paganin, S., Herring, A. H., Olshan, A. F., Dunson, D. B., et al. (2021) in Bayesian Analysis
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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].
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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].
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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].