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Track: Mathematics for Data Science
Students who take this track will have the opportunity to learn the theoretical and computational foundations of Mathematics for Data Science, including advanced tools in:
- π Probability and Mathematical Statistics
- π€ Machine Learning and Deep Learning
The track equips students with the knowledge and skills needed to tackle challenges in modelling high dimensional and complex data sets, which are frequently encountered in environmental, biological, social, and economic fields.
βοΈ Prerequisites for Admission
Knowledge of probability theory and mathematical statistics is essential. Please check the syllabus of the courses below (Bachelorβs degree in Italian) to ensure that all the topics are covered at the requested level of depth. Students missing these prerequisites will have to include here the aforementioned courses.:
- Calcolo delle probabilitΓ II
- Statistica Matematica
We also encourage students to take courses on functional analysis.
βοΈ Prerequisites for Admission
Knowledge of probability theory and mathematical statistics is essential for this track. Please check the syllabus of the courses below (from the Bachelorβs degree in Mathematics at the University of Trento ) to ensure that all the topics are covered at the requested level of depth:
- Calcolo delle probabilitΓ II
- Statistica Matematica
We also encourage students to take a course on functional analysis.
π Career Path
This track is ideal for students seeking a Ph.D. in Statistics, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Machine Learning, or AI, or a job in data analysis departments in industry or research centers.
π Career Path
This track is ideal for students seeking a Ph.D. in Statistics, Data Science, Applied Mathematics, Machine Learning, or AI, or a job in data analysis departments in industry or research centers.
Student Testimonials
Davide Berasi
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Gaia Colombani
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Lucia Filippozzi
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Ester Riccardi
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Master theses
Alessia Moretti
π Thesis: Investigating the curse of dimensionality in Bayesian cluster analysis: A study of Gaussian mixtures with diagonal covariance matrix
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Sara Wade
ποΈ Visiting: University of Edinburgh, UK
Gaia Benedetti
π Thesis: Functional generalized linear mixed models: theory and application in epileptic data analysis
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Annalisa Barla
ποΈ Visiting: University of Genova, Italy
Paul-Henrik Heilmann
π Thesis: Robust estimators for generalized linear models with density power divergence: computational aspects and algorithms
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Andreas Prohl
ποΈ Visiting: University of Trento (Erasmus)
Valentina Bertiato
π Thesis: Comparative study of SARIMA, prophet, and RNNs for air pollution forecasting in Barcelona
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Josep Anton SΓ nchez Espigares
ποΈ Visiting: Universistat PolitΓ¨cnica de Catalunya, Spain
Federica Salvaro
π Thesis: Modelization and experiments of human decision making under high cognitive load: the case of the Knightβs Tour
π©βπ« Supervisors: Veronica Vinciotti, Lucilla Alvarez-Zuzek, Oriol Artime
ποΈ Visiting: University of Barcelona, Spain
Silvia Menchetti
π Thesis: Enhancing predictive modeling performance with omics data augmentation through generative adversarial networks and diffusion models
π©βπ« Supervisors: Veronica Vinciotti, Marco Chierici
ποΈ Visiting: Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Ester Riccardi
π Thesis: Introducing causality in relational event models
π©βπ« Supervisors: Veronica Vinciotti, Ernst Wit
ποΈ Visiting: UniversitΓ della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
Laura Bisoffi
π Thesis: The emergence of zealotry in opinion dynamics
π©βπ« Supervisors: Veronica Vinciotti, Lucilla Alvarez-Zuzek, Oriol Artime
ποΈ Visiting: University of Barcelona, Spain
Francesco Frattini
π Thesis: Copula graphical models with node degree heterogeneity
π©βπ« Supervisors: Veronica Vinciotti
Lorenzo Zuccato
π Thesis: Bayesian nonparametric clustering for preference learning
π©βπ« Supervisors: Veronica Vinciotti, Valeria Vitelli
ποΈ Visiting: University of Oslo, Norway
Anna Galli
π Thesis: Statistical properties of the spatial sign autocorrelation coefficient for stationary alpha-mixing processes
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Alexander DΓΌrre
ποΈ Visiting: Leiden University, Netherlands
Aurora Vindimian
π Thesis: Analyzing and modelling the temporal network of telegram's chats
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Riccardo Gallotti, Thomas Louf
ποΈ Visiting: Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Seyed Mohsen Moosavi
π Thesis: Some applications of ergodic theory in deep neural networks
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli
Elisa Muratore
π Thesis: Marked temporal point processes for simulating and capturing coordinated behaviour campaigns: a model for enhancing disinformation detection
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Riccardo Gallotti, Letizia Iannucci, Mikko Kivela
ποΈ Visiting: Aalto University, Finland
Valentina Fusaro
π Thesis: Exploring multimessenger signals: a joint Bayesian framework for neutron stars mergers
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Sebastiano Bernuzzi, Albino Perego
Chiara Maggiolini Cacciamani
π Thesis: Robust penalized estimators for high-dimensional generalized linear models with density power divergence
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Abhik Ghosh
ποΈ Visiting: Indian Statistical Institute, India
Nicola Potenza
π Thesis: An overview on non parametric Bayesian statistics and its application to artificial neural networks
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli
Alice Polinelli
π Thesis: Causal regularization and its extension to generalized linear models
π©βπ« Supervisors: Veronica Vinciotti, Ernst Wit
ποΈ Visiting: UniversitΓ della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
Veronica Poda
π Thesis: Comparing modularity-based approaches for community detection on hypergraphs
π©βπ« Supervisors: Veronica Vinciotti, Catherine Matias
ποΈ Visiting: Sorbonne UniversitΓ©, France
Marco Borriero
π Thesis: Gaussian graphical models for partially observed functional data
π©βπ« Supervisors: Veronica Vinciotti, Luigi Augugliaro
ποΈ Visiting: University of Palermo, Italy
Silvia Guerrini
π Thesis: Dynamic network insights: a novel model for disentangling homophily and triadic closure in longitudinal data
π©βπ« Supervisors: Veronica Vinciotti, Tiago Peixoto
ποΈ Visiting: Central European University, Austria
Melania Lembo
π Thesis: Nested case-control sampling for baseline hazard estimation in relational event models
π©βπ« Supervisors: Veronica Vinciotti, Ernst Wit
ποΈ Visiting: UniversitΓ della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland
Luca Cibinel
π Thesis: Penalised likelihood inference for gaussian covariance graph models
π©βπ« Supervisors: Veronica Vinciotti, Alberto Roverato
ποΈ Visiting: University of Padova, Italy
Giada Dal Col
π Thesis: Analytical properties and statistical inference in ranking dynamics
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Oriol Artime, Riccardo Gallotti
ποΈ Visiting: University of Barcelona, Spain
Claudiu Acsinte
π Thesis: An application of information geometry in machine learning: the Helmholtz machine case
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Luigi MalagΓ²
ποΈ Visiting: Transylvanian Institute of Neuroscience, Romania
Federica Forzanini
π Thesis: Data resampling strategies for robust and reproducible machine learning models in biomedical domain: an application on medical imaging data of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (als) patients
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Annalisa Barla
ποΈ Visiting: University of Genova, Italy
Mauritz Cartier van Dissel
π Thesis: State-space models for multivariate electricity load forecasting
π©βπ« Supervisors: Veronica Vinciotti, Santiago Mazuelas
ποΈ Visiting: Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Spain
Gaia Colombani
π Thesis: First-passage properties of growing self-avoiding random walks with and without resetting
π©βπ« Supervisors: Veronica Vinciotti, Oriol Artime, Giulia Bertagnolli
ποΈ Visiting: University of Barcelona, Spain
Marco Sigala
π Thesis: Parallel heuristic optimization algorithms for waste collection problems
π©βπ« Supervisors: Veronica Vinciotti, Francesca Cipollini
ποΈ Visiting: aizoOn Technology Consulting, Italy
Lucia Filippozzi
π Thesis: Minimax risk classifier with noisy labels
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Santiago Mazuelas
ποΈ Visiting: Basque Center for Applied Mathematics, Spain
Yuri Baldo
π Thesis: Temporal-difference learning methods with eligibility traces
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Luigi Amedeo Bianchi
Anna Bertani
π Thesis: Characterization of social behavior dynamics in online social network during exceptional events
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Manlio De Domenico
ποΈ Visiting: Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Giorgia Rossato
π Thesis: Toward functional data analysis on torus
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli
Chiara Avigo
π Thesis: Variational inference methods for Bayesian neural networks: towards uncertainty estimation of neural networks predictions
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli
Tobia Filosi
π Thesis: Tree-ring based reconstruction of paleoclimate via Bayesian state space models
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli
Giuseppe Saccardi
π Thesis: Additive covariance modeling via unconstrained parametrization
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Matteo Fasiolo
ποΈ Visiting: University of Bristol, UK
Irene Bianconi
π Thesis: Importance sampling with application in sparse linear models
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Nicolas Chopin
ποΈ Visiting: Institut Polytechnique de Paris, France
Clara Lupo
π Thesis: Multi-dimensional count data. a Bayesian nonparametric model for multi-dimensional count data
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Antonio Canale
ποΈ Visiting: University of Padova, Italy
Francesca Onorato
π Thesis: Segmentation strategies for end-to-end simultaneous speech translation
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Matteo Negri, Elisa Ricci, Marco Turchi
ποΈ Visiting: Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Massimiliano Datres
π Thesis: The mathematical foundation of the probabilistic compressed sensing approach
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli
Andrea Fox
π Thesis: Bayesian methods for tabular reinforcement learning
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli
Andrea Panarotto
π Thesis: Hamiltonian Monte Carlo for random sampling and generative models applications
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli
Carlo Pietropoli
π Thesis: Hidden Markov models for football analytics
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Roberta Sirovich
ποΈ Visiting: Kama.Sport, Italy
Elena Sabbioni
π Thesis: Comparing groups with high-dimensional semi-continuous data: the case of micro-RNA activation in human blastocysts
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Alessio Farcomeni
ποΈ Visiting: L'altra statistica, Italy
Angela Fabian
π Thesis: An application of continuous time Bayesian networks: a model for structured Poisson processes
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli
Giorgia Casaccio
π Thesis: Statistical data depth based measures for networks: dispersion and core-periphery structures
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Manlio De Domenico
ποΈ Visiting: Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Mattia Brazzale
π Thesis: Modelling and statistical analysis of silicon-based photonic quantum random number generators
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Sonia Mazzucchi
ποΈ Visiting: Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Stefano Arrigoni
π Thesis: Markov chain for disability insurance models
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli
ποΈ Visiting: Gruppo ITAS Assicurazioni, Italy
Francesco Cabras
π Thesis: Electricity bills: analysis of the differences in price for european households
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Luigi Amedeo Bianchi
Ivan Marino
π Thesis: Mixture models for grouped data
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli
ποΈ Visiting: CHT Italia, Italy
Michele Pedrazzoli
π Thesis: Adversarial examples from a robust statistics point of view
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli
ποΈ Visiting: Kama.Sport, Italy
Giulia Bertagnolli
π Thesis: Complex networks and statistical data depths
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Manlio De Domenico
ποΈ Visiting: Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Viola Nervini
π Thesis: Wavelets and convolutional neural networks for food quality control
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Giuseppe Jurman
ποΈ Visiting: Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Giovanni Saraceno
π Thesis: Deep learning and memorizing of spectro-temporal data (music) in the spatio-temporal brain
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Cesare Furlanello, Nikola Kasabov
ποΈ Visiting: Auckland University of Technology, New Zeland
Giulia Gangi
π Thesis: Deep CNN for grape detection
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli
ποΈ Visiting: Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Lucia Trastulla
π Thesis: Techniques of integration for high-throughput omics data
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Giuseppe Jurman, Alessandro ZandonΓ
ποΈ Visiting: Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy
Veronica Vena
π Thesis: Singular spectrum analysis: an application to air pollution data
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli
Manlio Valenti
π Thesis: On the notion of Kolmogorov complexity and the computability of learning agents
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Marcus Hutter
ποΈ Visiting: Australian National University, Australia
Ylenia Giarratano
π Thesis: Phylogenetic convolutional neural networks in metagenomics
π©βπ« Supervisors: Claudio Agostinelli, Giuseppe Jurman
ποΈ Visiting: Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy