IRENE POLI, Senior Advisor

Irene Poli is professor of Statistics at the University Ca' Foscari of Venice. She has served in the Faculties of Economics of Bocconi University of Milano and the Universities of Bologna and Modena. She has spent extended periods of time working in research groups at the Imperial College of Science and Technology in London and at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. She is a Member of the Italian Statistical Society, Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and Member of the New York Academy of Science. She is author of numerous articles in international statistical journals and of several technical books. Her main research interest is in the development of techniques for modeling and analyzing high dimensional data. In particular, she applies neural networks to problems of statistical prediction, and the genetic algorithm to model selection problems. Recently she has applied these techniques to the prediction of high tides in the Venetian laguna and of financial time series, as well as to the characterization of industrial districts.