Nome Simola Umberto

Ciclo Ordinamento:

30

Cycle:

XXX

Qualification

Dottore di ricerca

At the

Department of Statistical Sciences University of Padua

Research Fellows:

no

Contacts (room / phone):

Studio 130 - Telefono: 049 827 4174

Email:

simola@stat.unipd.it

Years of study:

2014 - 2017

Supervisor:

Alessandra Brazzale

Co-supervisor:

Jessi Cisewski-Kehe

Education:

November 2014 - October 2017: Ph.D. Student in Statistical Sciences (XXX cycle) at the Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Padova, Italy.

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October 2012 - July 2014: Master's degree in Statistical Sciences at the Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Padova, Italy.

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October 2009 - July 2012: Bachelor's degree in Statistics and Informatics at the Department of Statistical Sciences of the University of Padova, Italy.

Research:

Astrostatistics, Approximate Bayesian Computation, Computational Statistics, Likelihood inference, Measurement errors, Applications to the physical sciences, Applications to sport.

Study visits:

February 2016 - August 2017 : Visiting Assistant in Research Student, Department of Statistics, Yale University, New Haven, CT (USA). Supervisor: prof. Jessi Cisewski-Kehe

Thesis:

M.Sc. thesis title: THE SEARCH FOR EXOPLANETS: CASE STUDIES IN ASTROSTATISTICS. Supervisor: Prof. Alessandra R. Brazzale.

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B.Sc. thesis title: A STUDY ON GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION BETWEEN DIFFUSE LARGE B-CELL LYMPHOMA AND FOLLICOLAR LYMPHOMA. Supervisor: Prof. Laura Ventura

PhD Thesis Title:

DEVELOPMENTS IN APPROXIMATE BAYESIAN COMPUTATION AND STATISTICAL APPLICATIONS IN ASTROSTATISTICS. Supervisor: Prof. Alessandra R. Brazzale.

Publications:

  • U. Simola and J. Cisewski-Kehe. “Adaptive Approximate Bayesian Computation Tolerance Selection”. Submitted to Bayesian Analysis Journal 

  • U. Simola, J. Cisewski-Kehe and R. L. Wolpert. “Approximate Bayesian Computation for Finite Mixture Models”. Submitted to Statistics and Computing Journal 

  • U. Simola, X. Dumusque and J. Cisewski-Kehe “Cross correlation function line-profile variations in radial-velocity measurements by fitting a Skew Normal distribution”. to be Submitted: A&A Journal

  • U. Simola, J. Cisewski-Kehe, M. Shabram and E. Ford. “Inferring the eccentricity distribution of exoplanet populations via Approximate Bayesian Computation”. In preparation  

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Talks and Posters:

  • ASTRO@STAT2017. Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padua, Padua, Italy, September, 2017. “Cross correlation function line-profile variations in radial-velocity measurements by fitting a Skew Normal distribution” (poster)

  • The Yale Summer Program in Astrophysics, Leitner Family Observatory and Planetarium, Yale University, New Haven, CT, July 14th 2017 .  “Modeling Stellar Activity CCF with a Skew Normal distribution” (seminar)

  • Sagan Summer Workshop, Is There A Planet In My Data? Statistical Approaches to Finding and Characterizing Planets in Astronomical Data, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, July 2016.“Searching for Extrasolar Planets” (poster) 

allegato:
4030