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Members of the Lab carry out research in applied mathematics. They are computer scientists, statisticians, theoretical economists and theoretical physicists who are Bocconi faculty members or close collaborators. 
Seven ERC grants have been awarded to the Lab faculty members. 

The Lab hosts researchers from other universities and research centers through conferences, workshops and visiting positions. PostDocs, PhD students and interns are a vital component of the Lab.

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Riccardo Zecchina

Scientific Director - Machine Learning, Statistical Physics
Professor of Theoretical Physics at Bocconi University, previously Professor at Politecnico di Torino. He has been research scientist and head of the Statistical Physics Group at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics in Trieste (‘97-‘07). ...
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Carlo Baldassi

Machine Learning, Computational Neuroscience
Carlo Baldassi is Assistant Professor in Computer Science at Bocconi University. His research interests focus on the application of Statistical Mechanics to machine learning and computational neuroscience, and more generally to large-scale inference ...
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Pierpaolo Battigalli

Game Theory, Economics
Professor of Microeconomics and Game Theory, and current Head of the Department of Decision Sciences. Director of the PhD in Economics until 2010 and Dean of the PhD School until 2019. He has taught at the Politecnico di Milano, the University of Pri ...
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Emanuele Borgonovo

Operations Research
Professor of Operations Research at the Department of Decision Sciences and Director of the Management Science Laboratory of SDA Bocconi Business School. He's Director of Bachelor in Economics, Management and Computer Science (BEMACS). He has been di ...
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Nicolas Brunel

Computational Neuroscience (Duke University)
Professor of Neurobiology and of Physics, Affiliate in the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, Faculty Network Member of Duke Institute for Brain Sciences
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Simone Cerreia-Vioglio

Decision Theory, Economics
Simone Cerreia-Vioglio is an Associate Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences. He earned his Laurea degree in Finance from Bocconi University in 2005 and his PhD in Economics from Columbia University in 2010. He has joined Bocconi in 2010 a ...
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Daniele Durante

Statistics, Machine Learning
Daniele Durante is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at the Department of Decision Sciences of the Bocconi University, and a Research Affiliate at the Bocconi Institute for Data Science (BIDSA). His research is characterized by an interdisciplinar ...
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Christoph Feinauer

Machine Learning, High Performance Computing
Christoph Feinauer is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Bocconi University. He works in machine learning and high performance computing applications, e.g. to biological problems, medical research, natural language processing.
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Antonio Lijoi

Statistics
Antonio Lijoi is Professor of Statistics in the Department of Decision Sciences, at Bocconi University. He has previously been Assistant Professor (1999-2005) and Associate Professor (2006-2011) of Statistics in the Department of Economics and Quanti ...
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Carlo Lucibello

Machine Learning, Statistical Physics
Carlo Lucibello is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Bocconi University. His research focus is on the theoretical investigation of problems in signal processing, discrete optimization and machine learning, along with the design of related al ...
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Fabio Maccheroni

Decision Theory, Economics
Fabio Maccheroni is a Professor of Decision Sciences at Bocconi (Milano) and a fellow of IGIER. He works on Decision Theory, Game Theory, and Mathematical Finance. More recently, he started working on topics in Computational Neuroeconomics and Discre ...
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Massimo Marinacci

Decision Theory, Economics
Massimo Marinacci is Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences of Bocconi University. Since 2011, he holds the AXA-Bocconi Chair in Risk.
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Simone Padoan

Statistics
Simone Padoan is an Assistant Professor in Statistics at Bocconi University. His research interests focus on Applied Probability Statistical Theory and Computational Statistics. His major area of investigation concerns the Extreme-Value Theory. His i ...
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Sonia Petrone

Statistics
Sonia Petrone is Professor of Statistics at Bocconi University. Her research areas include Bayesian Statistics -- foundations, methods, applications, Bayesian nonparametrics, mixtures and latent variable models, methods and models for prediction, sta ...
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Igor Prünster

Statistics
Professor of Statistics at Bocconi University, Director of the Bocconi Institute of Data Science & Analytics (BIDSA) Fellow of IGIER
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Luca Trevisan

Computer Science
Luca Trevisan is a professor Computer Sciences at Bocconi University and a senior scientist at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. He is from Rome, where he studied at the Sapienza University of Rome, advised by Pierluigi Crescenzi. He ...
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Giacomo Zanella

Statistics
Giacomo Zanella is an Assistant Professor of Statistics and Machine Learning at Bocconi University. He received his PhD in Statistics at the University of Warwick in 2015 and the same year he was awarded a Doctoral Prize EPSRC fellowship. He then mov ...
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Diana Righi

Administrative officer - diana.righi@unibocconi.it
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Elizaveta Demyanenko

Research Assistant
Elizaveta Demyanenko is a 2nd year Master student in Data Science and Business Analytics. She got her Bachelor’s degree in Economics in Higher School of Economics in Moscow. She currently works as a research assistant on projects related to adversari ...
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Enrico Malatesta

PostDoc
Enrico Malatesta graduated in theoretical physics at Sapienza University of Rome and got a PhD in physics at University of Milan. His principal research interests are neural networks and machine learning, optimization problems and disordered systems.
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Fabrizio Pittorino

PostDoc
Fabrizio Pittorino graduated in Physics at the University of Roma "La Sapienza" and received his PhD in Physics from the University of Parma. He is currently a PostDoc at "Dipartimento Scienza Applicata e Tecnologia" of Politecnico di Torino. His res ...
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Gabriele Perugini

PostDoc
Gabriele Perugini graduated in Physics at the Rome University “la Sapienza” in 2013 and received a PhD in Physics from the same University in 2017. During his PhD he worked on the statistical Physics of disordered systems and on optimization problems ...
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Marco Pirazzini

Intern
Marco Pirazzini is a 1st year Master student in Data Science and Business Analytics. He is currently interested in stochastic processes and probabilistic algorithms and he plans to pursue theoretical research in machine learning.
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Matteo Negri

PhD Student
Matteo Negri is currently a PhD student at Politecnico di Torino. He got his Master's degree in physics at Università Statale di Milano. His interests are investigating statistical mechanics, complex systems and biophysics, with both a theoretical an ...
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Niccolò Anceschi

PhD Student
Niccolò Anceschi is a 2nd Year Phd Student in Statistics, at Bocconi University. He got both his Bs and Ms in Physics at Universita' degli Studi di Milano, with a focus on the Statistical Physics of Complex Systems. For his Master Thesis, he worked w ...
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Renato Berlinghieri

Intern
Renato Berlinghieri is a 1st year Master student in Data Science and Business Analytics. His main interests are statistics, decision theory and machine learning, both from an applied and a theoretical point of view.
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Riccardo Della Vecchia

PhD Student
Riccardo Della Vecchia is a 4th year PhD in Statistics at Bocconi University, with interests in machine learning, neural networks and statistical physics. He received his university degree in Theoretical Physics from the University of Padova and, at ...