Dr. Manuel Rizzo

I work in the Research and Pre-Clinical Statistica group.

The project "Virtual Compressor" related to my PostDoc position at the Hasso-Plattner Institute is jointly carried out by the partner company Industrial Analytics, which provides expertises on mechanical engineering.

Project: Evolutionary Computation Methods for Complex Statistical Problems (principal investigator: prof. Francesco Battaglia)

Academic Tutor: weekly lectures in "Exam Workout in Statistics" for Bachelor’s students (in the Academic Gym program), and office hours.

Teaching Assistant for "Introduction To Statistics" courses (profs. S. Arima, R. Baragona, G. Guagnano, F.M. Sanna, M.R. Sebastiani, S. Polettini), Faculty of Economics

My duties included maintaining and improving the BCC Lease scoring system and the automatic internal controls of the company by use of IBM SPSS Modeler 14.2 software.

Visiting Ph.D Student at Chair of Financial Econometrics & Asset Management, headed by prof. Sandra Paterlini.

Topics: Evolutionary computation in statistical models, Computational methods, Time series analysis; Thesis: Contributions on Evolutionary Computation for Statistical Inference (supervisor: Prof. Francesco Battaglia)

Topics: Time series analysis, Data mining, Biostatistics, Computational statistics; Thesis title: Statistical Models Building By Use of Genetic Algorithms (supervisor Prof. Francesco Battaglia)

Topics: Statistics, Mathematics, Informatics, Optimization; Thesis title: Likelihood-Based Inference for Dealing with Nuisance Parameters (supervisor Prof. Fulvio De Santis)