IGOR PRÜNSTER

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 Professor of Statistics

 Director, Ph.D. in Statistics and Computer Science

 Fellow, Bocconi Institute of Data Science & Analytics (BIDSA)                        

   

 Fellow, American Statistical Association (2019)

 Fellow, International Society for Bayesian Analysis (2018)

 Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2015)  

 

Current Editorial Activity

Editor-in-Chief:  Bayesian Analysis

Associate Editor:  Annals of Statistics 

 

Research Interests

Bayesian Nonparametrics; Bayesian Asymptotics; Foundations of Statistical Inference; Mixture Models; Predictive Inference; Probabilistic symmetries; Probabilistic Machine Learning; Random Measures; Species Sampling; Survival Analysis.
 

News & Events

Call for applications for the PhD Program in Statistics and Computer Science @ Bocconi [Deadline: February 3, 2025] 

14th International Conference on Bayesian Nonparametrics, Los Angeles, USA (June 23-27, 2025)

BIRS Workshop on Uncertainty Quantification in Large Models, Chennai Mathematical Institute, Chennai, India (December 7-12. 2025)

ICERM Workshop Nonparametric Bayesian Inference – Computational Issues, Providence, USA (January 12-26, 2026)


Past News & Events

Giovanni Rebaudo and Tommaso Rigon win 2024 Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award

Filippo Ascolani wins 2024 Lawrence D. Brown Ph.D. student Award

Beatrice Franzolini wins 2024 IMS New Researcher Award

Interpretable Inference via Principled BNP approaches in Biomedical Research and Beyond, Institute of Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore (July 8 - August 2, 2024)

International Symposium on Nonparametric Statistics, Braga, Portugal (June 25-29, 2024)

BNP-ISBA Webinar Series 2023-24

Filippo Ascolani and Francesco Gaffi win 2023 ASA-SBSS Student Paper Competition

Approximation methods in Bayesian Analysis, CIRM, Luminy, France (Jun 19-23, 2023)

Summer School in Bayesian Statistics and Computation, Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM), Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (Jul 13-22, 2023) 

2022 IISA Conference, Bangalore, India (Dec 26-30, 2022)

13h Bayesian Nonparametrics Conference, Puerto Varas, Chile (October 24-28, 2022)

2022 ISBA World Meeting, Montreal, Canada (June - July, 2022)

Marta Catalano wins 2021 Blackwell-Rosenbluth Award

Filippo Ascolani wins Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award  [news article]

Marta Catalano and Augusto Fasano L.J. Savage Award Finalists  [news article]

Tommaso Rigon wins L.J. Savage Award for his PhD dissertation [news article]

2021 ISBA World Meeting - virtual (June 28- July 2, 2021)

Marta Catalano wins 2021 ASA-SBSS Student Paper Competition and IMS New Researchers Travel Award

45th Arkansas Spring Lectures Series in the Mathematical Sciences, Lafeyettville, USA (Novermber 2020)

BayesLab Inaugural Webinar series: Junior Bayes Beyond the Borders (JB) joint with j-ISBA (June-July 2020)

12th Bayesian Nonparametrics Conference, Oxford, UK (June 24-28, 2019)

Stats under the Stars, Bocconi University, Milano (June 18-19, 2019)

BNP inference: dependence structures and their applicationsBIRS-CMO Workshop, Oaxaca, Mexico (December 3-8, 2017)

BIDSA Inaugural Conference, Bocconi University, Milano (November 18, 2016) [Videos]

Eugenio's conference, Pavia (June 10-11, 2016)

 

 

 

 

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