LOVAGLIO PIETRO GIORGIO

Pietro Giorgio Lovaglio is Full Professor of Statistics at the Department of Statistics and Quantitative Methods, University of Bicocca-Milan, since 2006 and Senior Researcher and Member of the Scientific Board of Research Center CRISP at University of Bicocca Milan, a research center aiming to promote and develop research programs on the Service of Public Utility to the person Efficacy, Efficiency, Equity, Customer Satisfaction. He is Member of the Academic Staff for the PhD program “Statistics and Applications and Member of the Scientific Board for the Master program “Business Intelligence and Statistics for Decisions Support”.

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

He is the author of over 80 papers on peer-reviewed journals (Google Scholar Citations 989, h-Index =16) and has published among others in: Econometric reviews, Quality and Quantity, Journal of economic surveys, 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.