Faculty

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.

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). ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Igor Prünster

Statistics

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

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 ...

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 ...

Andrea Tangherloni

Computational biology

He is an Assistant Professor in the new Department of Computing Sciences at Bocconi University. He received his Bachelor’s, Master’s, and PhD Degrees in Computer Science from the University of Milano-Bicocca in 2013, 2015, and 2019, respectively. He ...

Chiara Plizzari

Machine learning

She is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing Sciences at Bocconi University. Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Smart Eyewear Lab, a joint research center between EssilorLuxottica and Politecnico di Milano. Before th ...

Emmanuela Orsini

Cryptography

She is Assistant Professor in the Computing Sciences Department of Bocconi University, Milano, Italy. Prior to that, she had a permanent position as a Research Expert in the Computer Security and Industrial Cryptography (COSIC) group at KU Leuven, Be ...

Enrico Malatesta

Machine learning

He graduated in theoretical physics at Sapienza University of Rome under the supervision of Giorgio Parisi in 2015.He then got a PhD in physics at University of Milan in 2018, under joint supervision of Sergio Caracciolo and Giorgio Parisi. From 2018 ...

Francesca Buffa

Computational biology

She is Full Professor at the Department of Computing Sciences, Bocconi University. She is the recipient of a European Research Council Award with sits at Bocconi University, where she supervises a team delivering novel computational tools, ...

Gabriele Perugini

Machine learning

He 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 optimization problems. In 2018 he joine ...

Guido Tiana

Machine learning

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Laurent Poirrier

Computational optimization

Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Department of Bocconi University.

Luca Biggio

Machine learning

Assistant Professor in the Department of Computing Sciences at Bocconi University. His research focuses on understanding the inner workings of neural networks, identifying their limitations, and enhancing their efficiency. He is also interested in in ...

Luca Leuzzi

Machine learning

Luca Saglietti

Machine learning

He is an Assistant Professor in the new Computing Sciences Departments of Bocconi University, Milan. He obtained his PhD in 2018 from the Polytechnic of Turin, and then spent few years abroad, at Microsoft Research in Cambridge (MA, USA), at ENS in P ...

Marc Mézard

Machine learning

He is a Professor of Theoretical Physics. He studied physics at Ecole normale supérieure in Paris and he obtained his PhD in 1984. Hired at CNRS in Paris, he was Research Director in Université Paris Sud. From 2012 and 2022 he became Director of Ecol ...