OVERVIEW
ROLES AT IMM
2024
IMM International Faculty
Probability and Statistics
Course
Pakistan
Fall
ABOUT ME
Fabrizio Ruggeri
Fabrizio Ruggeri is a Senior Fellow of the Italian National Research Council. He also had various international appointments, including Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology (Brisbane, Australia), International Professor Affiliate at Polytechnic Institute (New York University, USA), Chair of Excellence at Universidad Carlos III and ICMAT-CSIC (Madrid, Spain) and Faculty of the Ph.D. programme in Statistics at the Universidad de Valparaiso (Chile). He is currently the President-Elect of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) for the 2023-2025 term, after which he will serve as President from 2025 to 2027. He has been President of ENBIS (European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics), ISBA (International Society for Bayesian Analysis) and ISBIS (International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics), and ISI Vice President. He is a Fellow of IMS (Institute of Mathematical Statistics), ASA (American Statistical Association) and ISBA (which also awarded him the first Zellner Medal), and ENBIS Honorary Member. Fabrizio is past Editor-in-Chief of Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry (2007-24) and currently of Wiley StatsRef, an online encyclopedia. He is author of over 200 articles (including 130 in refereed journals) and author/editor of 6 books.
What are your current areas of research and what excites you most about these areas?
Most of my research is in the field of Bayesian Statistics, with a particular emphasis on robustness and inference for stochastic processes, especially when applied to industrial problems. I work also a lot on the use of tools from descriptive statistics, stemming from the Lorenz curve, to analyse possible anomalies in populations, like possible fraudsters in a population of medical doctors. Recently I started working in the field of Adversarial Risk Analysis, especially in classification under possible attacks, using tools from Bayesian Statistics and Decision Analysis. I consider myself a stochastic modeler and I love it: starting (often) from practical problems, the search for a model, preferably with some innovation, is challenging and stimulating. Also the application of mathematical methods gives a lot of satisfaction to a mathematical statistician like me!
CURRICULUM
from 2023 to Present
Senior Fellow, National Research Council
Italy
from 2019 to Present
IMM International Faculty, International Mathematics Master (IMM)
International
from 1992 to 1994
PhD Graduate, Duke University
USA
from 1988 to 1989
MSc Graduate, Carnegie Mellon University
USA
from 1987 to 2023
Research Scientist, National Research Council
Italy
from 1985 to 1987
Computer Consultant, Gaetani
Italy
from 1983 to 1985
Research Scientist, Alfa Romeo
Italy
from 1979 to 1983
School Teacher, High School
Italy
from 1975 to 1982
B.Sc. (Hons) Graduate, University of Milan
Italy
MORE INFORMATION
What inspired you to teach for IMM? How have you found your experience at IMM?
I have been involved in many capacity development activities, like teaching 4 times (3 times in Honduras and once in Ghana) for the Volunteer Lecturer Programme of the International Mathematical Union. I am also involved in the most important statistical association at international level (International Statistical Institute) of which I will become the President in 2025. When I was Vice President, I co-chaired the ISI Capacity Building Committee which sponsored many activities in developing countries. Currently I am cooperating with the ISI Academy which has the goal of developing sounder statistical knowledge worldwide. When I learned about IMM, I enthusiastically offered to be a teacher in a course in Pakistan and I am looking forward to it!