Paolo Giudici

Paolo Giudici is a data scientist and professor of statistics at the University of Pavia. His research focuses on statistical learning methods to obtain data driven predictions and risk measures in economics, finance and fintech innovations.

Born

March 23rd, 1965 Sondrio, Italy

Nationality

Italian

Education

Bocconi University, Italy, M.Sci. Economics, 1989

University of Minnesota, USA, M.Sci. Statistics, 1990

University of Trento, Italy, Phd Statistics, 1994

Fields

Statistics; Machine learning; Finance

Institutions

University of Pavia (1994-Present)

Notes

Top Italian Scientist in Business Sciences

Education and career

Paolo Giudici, born in Valtellina, earned a master's degree in economics from Bocconi University in 1989, a master's degree in statistics from the University of Minnesota in 1990 and a doctorate in statistics from the [University of Trento https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Trento] in 1994. He became assistant professor of statistics at the University of Pavia in 1994.

After visiting periods at the University of Bristol, at the University of Cambridge and at the Fields Institute, funded by the European Science Foundation, in 2007 he became full professor of statistics. He has been lecturer of statistics, data science, financial risk management and machine learning classes and has supervised 18 PhD students and 13 post doc researchers within the statistical laboratory of the department of economics and management of the University of Pavia. He is editorial board member of the scientific journals Fintech, Risks and Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence.

Research interests

The research activity of Paolo Giudici has developed at the interplay between the academia and the financial industry. He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and an executive member of the Italian statistical society. He has been research and training expert for the Bank for International Settlements, the European Commission, the European University Institute, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority [9], the Centre for European Policy Studies[10], the Bank of Italy [11], the Associazione Bancaria Italiana[12], the Italian National Institute of Statistics[13], the [[Ministry of Economic Development (Italy)][14]. He has served as an independent board member of Credito Valtellinese from 2010 to 2018[15].

He has been coordinator and principal investigator of several industrial projects and of 12 competitive scientific projects, among which the European Horizon 2020 projects FIN-TECH (2018-2021) [16], PERISCOPE (2020-2023) [17] and the CARIPLO Foundation cultural heritage project "ANTICA PIEVE DI MAZZO” (2006-2010) [18]. He has also coordinated the Pavia unit of the European VI framework project MUSING [19]. He is a research fellow at the University College of London Blockchain centre [20]