Conference presentations

• Invited talk: “Uncovering the heterogeneity of the neuronal activity in calcium imaging studies via Bayesian mixture models”;
  ISBA 2024, Venezia, Italy; July 1 - 7, 2024.

• Invited talk: “Two-level clustering of patients and hospitals via thinned dependent Dirichlet process mixtures”;
  SIS 2024, Bari, Italy; June 17 - 20, 2024.

• Invited talk: “A Bayesian hierarchical mixture model for clustering Spotify’s songs and artists”;
  StaTalk 2023, Roma, Italy; September 15, 2023.

• Contributed talk: “A comparison of computational approaches for posterior inference in Bayesian Poisson regression”;
  SIS 2023, Ancona, Italy; June 21 – 23, 2023.

• Invited talk: “Bayesian nonparametric clustering of spatially-referenced spike train data”;
  SIS 2022, Caserta, Italy; June 22 – 24, 2022.

• Discussant at the solicited session “Bayesian inference for complex random structures”;
  SIS 2022, Caserta, Italy; June 22 – 24, 2022.

• Contributed talk: “Bayesian nonparametric analysis for the detection of spikes in noisy calcium imaging data”;
  JSM 2021 (virtual conference); August 8 – 12, 2021.

• Contributed talk: “Bayesian nonparametric analysis for the detection of spikes in noisy calcium imaging data”;
  ISBA 2021 (virtual conference), June 23 – July 2; 2021.

• Contributed talk: “Detection of neural activity in calcium imaging data via Bayesian mixture models”;
  SIS 2021 (virtual conference); June 21 – 25, 2021.

• Talk at the Junior session: “Efficient posterior sampling for Bayesian Poisson regression”;
  Bayesian Nonparametrics for Complex Data, Concluding workshop, University of Padova; January 24, 2020.

• Contributed talk: “Model based clustering in group life insurance via Bayesian nonparametric mixtures”;
  SIS 2019, Milan, Italy; June 12 – 14, 2019.
  
  
  

Poster presentations

• “Finite-infinite nested priors for the segmentation of complex, large-scale grouped datasets”;
  BAYSM 2024, Venice, Italy; June 29 - 30, 2024.

• “Clustering activation patterns of spatially-referenced neurons”;
  Statistical methods and models for complex data, Padova, Italy; September 21 – 23, 2022.

• “Clustering activation patterns of spatially-referenced neurons”;
  ISBA 2022, Montreal, Canada; June 27 – July 1, 2022.
  
  
  

Invited seminars

• “Analyzing the activation patterns and heterogeneity of the neuronal response via Bayesian mixture models”; Department of Environmental Sciences, Informatics and Statistics, Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Venezia, Italy; April 9, 2024.

• “Modeling grouped data via finite nested mixture models: an application to calcium imaging data”; Dipartimento di Statistica, Informatica, Applicazioni “Giuseppe Parenti”, Università degli Studi di Firenze, Firenze, Italy; June 8,2023.

• Two seminars during the MSc course “Temi e metodi di popolazione e società” (Dott. P. Belloni): “Introduzione ai modelli mistura Bayesiani” (Introduction to Bayesian mixture models) and “Modelli mistura gerarchici per il clustering di contenuti musicali” (Nested mixture models for clustering Spotify’s songs and artists); Department of Statistics, University of Padova, Padova, Italy; May 8-9, 2023.

• “Analysis of calcium imaging data via finite nested mixture models”; Department of Economics, University of Bergamo, Bergamo, Italy; April 4,2023.

• Seminar during the MSc course of Bayesian Statistics (Prof. A. Guglielmi): “Analysis of calcium imaging data via nested mixture models”; Department of Mathematics, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy; October 28, 2022.

• “Clustering activation patterns of spatially-referenced neurons”; virtual seminar, Department of Statistics, ITAM, Mexico; September 2, 2022.

• Presentation of the topic and data description at the Data Research Camp, San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy; July 12, 2022.