LOVAGLIO PIETRO GIORGIO

Pietro Giorgio Lovaglio is Full Professor of Economic Statistics at the Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Bicocca-Milan.

He is Senior Researcher of Research Center CRISP (http://www.crisp-org.it/) at University of Bicocca Milan,  Member of the Scientific committee of the PhD program “Economics, Statistics and Data Science“ .

He has coordinated scientific consortia and participated as a senior researcher in a wide range of competitive international projects (EU projects, international tenders, Horizon), funded by major European institutions and research centers.

He is an expert of Data mining, machine learning. His current research topics are in the area of: model selection, models for high-dimensional data, hierarchical models and models for latent variables.

Whitin it’s didactic activities (Data mining and Computational statistics) is offered an International SAS certification “Predictive modeler using SAS Enterprise miner”. 

He is the author of over 90 papers on peer-reviewed journals (Google Scholar, >1300 citations, H-Index = 20) and has published among others in: Econometric reviews, Quality and Quantity, Journal of economic surveys, Journal of Forecasting, Structural change and economic dynamics, Computational Statistics and data analysis, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, Health Policy, PlosOne and Springer books.

Concerning the area of applied statistics, he conducted research and participated to research projects in several areas such as:  Human Capital estimation, earnings trajectories and education returns, Evaluation methods in Health and Education (effectiveness and efficiency), Labour Market Outcomes and transition analysis, Analysis of labour earnings and education levels, Analysis of labour market analysis with administrative data, Quality assessment and evaluation in public services.